One-fifth of United Methodist congregations in the United States have received permission to leave the denomination over disagreements over same-sex marriage and gay preachers. In annual ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — The United Methodist Church will hold its General Conference, delayed several years by the pandemic, in April 2024. The meeting comes amid a dramatic divide over LGBTQ+ rights.

The United Methodist Church, founded from a merger of Methodist churches in 1968, has dropped from 10.6 million U.S. members in 1970 to about 6.2 million before the pandemic in 2020, reflecting a ...

The Methodist Church of Simpsonville thought it left the United Methodist denomination behind. A new lawsuit demands the church surrender money and property.

The decision comes as the United Methodist Church continues a dialogue about the denomination’s future, with the central question being the church’s relationship to LGBTQ individuals.

Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church, South Carolina’s largest UMC congregation, plans to separate from the denomination after the state approved an agreement for churches seeking disaffiliation.

The Texas high court issued a mostly unanimous opinion June 27 upholding the regional unit’s right to governance over SMU.

Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the United Methodist Church are set to deliver oral arguments in the Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 15. By Eric Killelea , Religion Reporter Jan 2, 2025 ...

It was a memorable scene in the recently remodeled and enlarged semi-circle for worship in the sanctuary of the Dulin United ...

The reason is partly financial, as the denomination suffers membership loss from 1.2 million in 2020 down to 1,094,733 in 2023, and also because many Christians in other countries now consider the ...