was raised United Methodist and has attended Graner’s church for about 10 years. “I think now we’re ready to have the church represent who we are,” she said of the split. “For the ...

The biggest group yet to leave the Upstate New York United Methodist Church officially departed last weekend, the latest repercussion of a nation-wide split in the church centered around the issue ...

the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the United Methodist Church over LGBTQ rights. The new denomination announced its plans on the same day the UMC postponed its General ...

The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant ... Been brewing forever': Historic Methodist rift is part of larger Christian split over LGBTQ issues Southern jurisdictions accounted ...

Eight more churches disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church on Sunday, including the 4,936-member Christ Methodist Church in Mobile, one of the city’s largest congregations. Christ ...

The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...

As part of splintering in United Methodist Church, church disaffiliations increased by 174% in 2023 compared to 2019-2022 ahead of policy expiration date. Sheer scale of church disaffiliations ...

West gave another cross and flame logo to Pell City First United Methodist Church, where the dynamics of the split were as dramatic as anywhere. The 800-member church, with nearly 300 attending a ...

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 second-largest Protestant denomination ...

The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second ... from the fact that the denomination turned out to split on a fundamental faith issue – whether all people ...

Nationwide, some United Methodist churches are disaffiliating ... they can leave and keep the property. The split in the church and new Florida laws have some parishioners afraid.