United Methodist Bishop Jonathan Holston, who was ceremonially installed Sunday night as head of the North Alabama Conference, addressed the controversy over the denomination’s decision earlier this ...

Webinars are to educate rank-and-file United Methodists about denomination’s new direction and prepare participants for a ...

After decades of passionate advocacy, those supporting LGBTQ inclusion in the United Methodist Church finally achieved their goals at last year’s general conference. With the advocates’ persistent ...

"The Council of Bishops has responded to the UMC’s institutional uncertainty by crafting a new vision statement." ...

More than 100 churches recently left the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church without the usual attention that hundreds of departing congregations across the nation have received in ...

The United Methodist General Conference that ended Friday in Tampa, Fla., was like the Democratic and the Republican national conventions held together, with liberal and conservative groups battling, ...

The United Methodist Church has garnered criticism for a plan to possibly cut funding to the 1-million-member Côte d'Ivoire Conference, which voted to leave the denomination earlier this year before ...

The Western Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church, which includes congregations in the Erie area, welcomed its new leader this month. Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball, who was assigned to ...

Lyle Muller is a retired, long-time Iowa journalist who is researching United Methodist history in Iowa and North Liberty. He is a delegate to the denomination’s Iowa Annual Conference. I needed to ...

For the first time in 91 years, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church convenes in Pensacola, home of "the mother church of Florida Methodism." The group will gather to ...