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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A long-running battle between one of the state’s largest churches and several of its local congregations is heading for one South Carolina judge’s desk. S.C. Chief Justice John Kittredge has ...

Multiple South Carolina churches are taking their parent denomination to the S.C. Supreme Court to try to get out from under its jurisdiction and keep their church holdings intact. The lawsuit was ...

When the Rev. Mel Arant stands behind the pulpit of his Upstate South Carolina church this Sunday morning, he plans to raise a subject that’s caused him and the worldwide United Methodist Church much ...

As the Global Methodist Church gets ready to mark two years since it launched on May 1, 2022, it has gradually taken shape as a new denomination after a split with the United Methodist Church.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A year after the United Methodist Church underwent a major upheaval, the church made another major change on Wednesday by ...

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 ...

One of the dominant Christian denominations in the U.S., the United Methodist Church, is experiencing a major split. Since 2019, more than 7,000 congregations have received approval to leave the ...