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Prior disaffiliation report: United Methodist Church disaffiliation movement in US largely white, Southern & male-led: New report shows Demographics The UMC, the largest mainline Protestant ...

The Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas. The school, which was founded by Methodists more than a century ago, is trying to extricate itself from the United Methodist Church.

The traditionalist exodus out of the United Methodist Church in the U.S. is definitively white, Southern and male-led, according to a scholarly analysis of the most recent available data.

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant groups in the U.S., is less united than it once was. The denomination has lost about 20% of its congregations in recent years.

Tuesday: Meeting of the United Methodist Women, 10 a.m., Oakhurst United Methodist Church; 7:30 p.m., Oakhurst United Methodist Church.