Editor’s Note: This is one of three stories on a split in the United Methodist Church (UMC) as some congregations have elected to “disaffiliate” due to conflicts — including an ongoing debate over ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Randy Frye is glad the just-concluded 2024 United Methodist Church (UMC) General Conference was largely conflict-free, but the UMC pastor harbors no illusions about the ...

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

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Editor’s Note: This is one of three stories on a split in the United Methodist Church (UMC) as some congregations have elected to “disaffiliate” due to conflicts — including an ongoing debate over ...

The United Methodist Church was first organized as the First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1881. The first meeting place was ...

Hundreds of congregations of the United Methodist Church voted to leave the denomination Saturday, and remaining congregations have just six weeks left to decide whether to leave or stay amid the ...

An effort to remove anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions at the UMC General Conference emerged in response to decades of traditionalist legislative wins. While also removing anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions, progressive ...

The Alabama Supreme Court today refused to give a rehearing to a group of breakaway Methodists in Auburn who had sued over control of church property. The state Supreme Court had dismissed the lawsuit ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Witnesses testified they were unaware that United Methodist Church denominational leaders were stakeholders in Harvest Church’s campus, as the UMC claimed in a lawsuit filed by ...

The newly named Amarillo United Methodist Church will officially become a congregation of the United Methodist Church during its service scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday, June 4, at St. Luke Presbyterian ...