The United Methodist Church’s first openly-lesbian bishop, Karen Oliveto, came to speak at Aspen Chapel on Sunday to kick off Gay Ski Week, which made for a small yet seismic ripple in a wider ...

The United Methodist Church ... from other mainline denominations is the decision of disaffiliating churches to remain independent of any denomination, at least for now," the report states.

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

The Independent is trusted by Americans across ... Leaders of the United Methodist Church expressed regret over last week's decision by the branch in Côte d’Ivoire to leave the union following ...

Some of those departing congregations left to form the more conservative Global Methodist Church and others decided to become independent. The main reason many of those congregations left the ...