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 ...

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 ...

John Philip Koeller's family has an interesting lineage connected to Alsace, France, a region that was at one time part of the German Empire. His great-grandfather took part in the French invasion of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A division over whether the United Methodist Church should allow gay clergy and sanction same-sex marriages is causing a split within the nation’s ...

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 ...

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 arguably caused ...

(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 ...