Over in Kentucky, somewhere around Morehead I believe there is a Methodist college. I am told the preachers who graduate from there can’t get a job at Methodists churches because they are so conservative and so in line to the original Methodist teachings.
This is what I’ve been told anyway.
There is one Episcopal seminary that is still relatively traditional and conservative. Their graduates were black-balled and cannot get a job in ministry.
But I read that they have had several resignations from the board because they invited the presiding bishopess to speak - so they may become like all the rest in the near future.
Reason 2,503 why we swam the Tiber.
The UMC is still "episcopal" in the sense that if you are ordained, you join an "annual conference" which is actually a geographic region run by a bishop, such as in my area the Florida AC, whose offices are in nearby Lakeland. It then becomes the bishop's duty to find a church for you, and every few years he plays musical pulpits and switches around all the ordained ministers to new churches, so that no one can become too attached to his own congregation. It's a good system for the ministers, not so much for the congregations--it used to be that all the ministers pretty much believed the same doctrines, but now a conservative church can get stuck with a liberal minister, and that's when the iliatic residue meets the propeller.