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 ...

Jan. 15—More than 6 million members of the United Methodist Church across the nation — and 12.5 million worldwide — face an impending deadline on whether to part ways with the church and disaffiliate.

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 ...

The 6,000-plus U.S. churches that split from the United Methodists as of June were disproportionately white and Southern but also had more in common — from median attendance size to growth rate — with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church have received permission to leave the denomination during a five-year window, closing this month, that authorized departures for ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Sylvann Fox found a welcoming United Methodist Church (UMC) in the Tri-Cities even before the denomination’s recent doctrinal changes surrounding LGBTQ clergy, members and ...

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.

A liturgical union irrevocably broken ends in divorce on Saturday when almost 200 United Methodist churches across western North Carolina are expected to leave the denomination. The “disaffiliations” ...

A group of 42 United Methodist congregations in south Alabama and the Florida panhandle has filed a lawsuit against Bishop David Graves and the Alabama-West Florida Conference, saying he has delayed ...