In 2010, Christianity Today reported that the United Methodist Church (UMC) had unexpectedly removed Evangelical Seminary from its list of schools approved to educate Methodist ministers. Last week, the denomination's University Senate voted to re-approve the seminary.
UMC originally removed the Pennsylvania seminary from its list because of the "lack of ethnic inclusiveness of faculty and staff, and the absence of full-time United Methodist faculty," according to a senate letter. At the time, 26 percent of Evangelical's nearly 200 students were Methodist.
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