NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., lost about a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023 due to disaffiliations, ...

Jan. 18—The General Conference of the United Methodist Church is looking to the future, and its leaders want to focus on collaboration after the shakeup over the homosexuality clause in the Book of ...

In a recent commentary about the United Methodist Church split, columnist Paul DeMarco expressed heartbreak at driving past former UMCs whose signs were changing. I empathize with his grief. But I ...

A year after the United Methodist Church underwent a major upheaval, the church made another major change on Wednesday by approving the ordination of openly gay ministers. At the church’s General ...

More churches have disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church as the prominent Protestant denomination continues its split along lines of progressive and traditional theology. On Saturday, 96 ...

Amid splintering in UMC, ongoing study on disaffiliations publishes third and final report. Policy allowing disaffiliations expired at end of 2023. A quarter of all UMC churches disaffiliated between ...

As the Global Methodist Church gets ready to mark two years since it launched on May 1, 2022, it has gradually taken shape as a new denomination after a split with the United Methodist Church.

One of the dominant Christian denominations in the U.S., the United Methodist Church, is experiencing a major split. Since 2019, more than 7,000 congregations have received approval to leave the ...