(RNS) — Last week, when the United Methodist Church postponed — for the third time in as many years — a vote on an orderly plan to split the mainline Protestant denomination long riven by disagreement ...

United Methodist churches across the country are undergoing a historic transformation as many — including 19 in Davidson County — have requested to leave the denomination, while other UM churches that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. United Methodists have for generations been a mainstay of the American religious landscape — one of the most geographically ...

With their denomination headed for schism, Arkansas United Methodists are debating whether to stay, leave or wait awhile to see what happens. A new, more conservative denomination, the Global ...

After an emotional meeting Saturday in Birmingham that sent long-time United Methodists heading off in different directions, the goodbyes quickly turned into questions of what’s next. “It’s just hard, ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century’s worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. Subscribe to read this story ...

The United Methodist Church is splitting with more conservative churches forming the Global Methodist Church. Organization that formed the new Methodist denomination meets days after new denomination ...

The new Global Methodist Church will leave the UMC regardless of the General Conference decision, which has been delayed until 2022. Conservative United Methodists have chosen a name for the ...

When the First Methodist Episcopal Church of West Point Pleasant opened in 1872, it was situated among rural farmland near a body of water. Today, as the renamed Harvey Memorial United Methodist ...

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 ...

(RNS) — In his first presidential address as president of the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops, Bishop Thomas Bickerton called on conservative groups encouraging churches to leave the ...

ONE OF AMERICA’S largest Protestant denominations voted in May to prohibit the solemnization of same-sex unions in its churches, to withhold ordination from practicing homosexuals, to ban church ...