Jan. 18—The General Conference of the United Methodist Church is looking to the future, and its leaders want to focus on collaboration after the shakeup over the homosexuality clause in the Book of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., lost about a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023 due to disaffiliations, ...

More than half of the United Methodist churches across Alabama have disaffiliated from the denomination, and the signs are becoming obvious – churches are literally changing their signs, reflecting ...

In a recent commentary about the United Methodist Church split, columnist Paul DeMarco expressed heartbreak at driving past former UMCs whose signs were changing. I empathize with his grief. But I ...

The United Methodist Church has announced a proposal to split following an impasse over the debate on gay marriage and LGBTQ inclusion in the church, The Washington Post reports. The proposed plan ...

More churches have disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church as the prominent Protestant denomination continues its split along lines of progressive and traditional theology. On Saturday, 96 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Since 1972, the United Methodist Church has been debating over same-sex marriage with the tension recently reaching a breaking point. “We can’t keep pushing it aside, you know ...

Forty-five United Methodist congregations in south Alabama and the Florida panhandle that filed a lawsuit against Bishop David Graves and the Alabama-West Florida Conference because they were not ...

Current and former members of Jonesboro's First United Methodist Church have agreed to settle the litigation that had entangled one of the denomination's largest U.S. congregations. The agreement, ...

A new, tougher ban on gay clergy and same-sex marriages is dividing members of the United Methodist Church. The question is: Should the United Methodist Church stay with its traditional policy of ...

ATHENS, Ga. — The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to allow 261 congregations to break from the denomination amid a schism over theological differences and the role of ...