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 ...

Emerging from a period that rocked the United Methodist Church to its core, the Alabama-West Florida UMC Conference gathers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Earlier this year, the congregations that remained in the United Methodist Church after the split passed measures to remove some of its anti-LGBTQ+ policies, including the ban on LGBTQ+ clergy and ...

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.

More than 250 Kentucky congregations of the United Methodist Church have split from their parent denomination, effectively shrinking the sect's size to just over half of what it was in the state.

This is the latest in the nationwide split of the church, which has been described by some as the largest denominational schism in the last 50 years. The issues for the United Methodist Church ...