Jun. 2—Several Methodist congregations in Glynn County have voted to leave the United Methodist Church, some joining the new Global Methodist Church denomination and some striking out as independent ...

The largest Methodist church in South Carolina will soon sever its connection to the country’s largest Methodist denomination. The congregation at Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church in Lexington has ...

Nearly 200 United Methodist churches in Georgia filed a lawsuit last week against their own denomination's regional body after they were temporarily halted from disaffiliating, marking another ...

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 ...

Council of Bishops sets out to refocus on the UMC congregations that stay after 2023. United Methodist bishops have proposed a five-day meeting of the denomination’s global decision-making body, the ...

United Methodist churches in the West are a haven for progressive congregations even as thousands of churches in other parts of the country disaffiliate because the church ordains LBGTQ+ people.

Congregations are leaving the United Methodist Church in protest against LGBTQ restrictions. Hundreds of churches are leaving the United Methodist Church, with CNN reporting that 261 churches in ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- The Northwest Texas Annual Conference of United Methodist Churches started like a regular church service. Participants sang, took communion, then prayed before voting to split from ...

At First United Methodist Church of Irwin over the past month, there’s been more than a few new faces in the pews. According to congregation member Bonnie Judy, her church has started to attract ...

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 ...

The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.