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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest Methodist church in South Carolina will soon sever its connection to the country’s largest Methodist denomination. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.