In January of 2020, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill into law permitting religious adoption agencies that received state funding to deny the facilitation of foster or adoption placements on the ...

The authors are Emma Anne Stephens, Tate Keuler, and Natalia Del Pino, three students in Metro Nashville public high schools. Their essay is endorsed by their Belmont United Methodist Church ...

MUNCIE, Ind. − United Methodist Churches of Indiana is perhaps more united but smaller after 174 congregations separated from the UMC Thursday night during the denomination's annual state conference ...

ATLANTA — Congregations across metro Atlanta are gathering for the first time since their independence from the United Methodist Church. It has been just three days since the North Georgia Methodist ...

(RNS) — Bishop Scott Jones isn’t the first United Methodist bishop to join the Global Methodist Church since the theologically conservative denomination launched in May, but his exit from the UMC has ...

Two of Tulsa's largest churches will be represented next week at the United Methodist General Conference, which will set the global policy for the 12 million-member denomination for the next four ...

Forty-three Wisconsin churches could see their wishes come true Friday to leave the United Methodist Church, the latest local development in a denomination-wide schism. More than 4,000 congregations ...