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 ...

Eight more churches disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church on Sunday, including the 4,936-member Christ Methodist Church in Mobile, one of the city’s largest congregations. Christ Methodist ...

A multi-year fight over whether Southern Methodist University can separate itself from the United Methodist Church is heading to Texas’ highest court this month. The Texas Supreme Court is scheduled ...

Jane Graner delivers her weekly sermon during services at Trinity United Methodist Church in Duncanville on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer Jane Graner first felt a call to ...

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 North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to allow hundreds of its churches to split from the denomination due to an ideological divide over LGBTQ issues. At a special ...

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 ...

Church leaders react to talk about division. At the United Methodist General Conference, leaders from both sides spoke candidly about “amicable” division. “Idealistically, we would like to see the ...

The United Methodist Church’s top legislative assembly will convene Sunday for a high-stakes, three-day meeting likely to determine whether America’s second-largest Protestant denomination will ...

PITTSBURGH - United Methodist evangelicals said Thursday that their church should split after three decades of discord over homosexuality, signaling a deep rift in the nation's third-largest ...

The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to allow hundreds of its churches to split from the denomination due to an ideological divide over LGBTQ issues. At a special ...