The United Methodist Church just held a historic vote in favor of LGBT inclusion. Here's what that means for the organization's future ...

Meeting at their worldwide General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., United Methodist delegates voted overwhelmingly to allow LGBTQ clergy and for Methodist ministers to officiate at same-sex weddings.

First Methodist Church of Irving announced it has officially joined the Global Methodist Church Saturday after officially disaffiliating from the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist ...

The United Methodist Church is part of the tradition of mainline Protestantism that now tends to be broadly progressive in its theology and traditional in its worship style.

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 ...

A schism between conservatives and liberals in the United Methodist Church about LGBTQ+ issues resulted in one fifth of congregations leaving.

The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, during a meeting of the church’s top legislative body in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S. is shrinking due to disputes over LGBTQ+ clergy and same-sex marriage. About 20% of United Methodist congregations have left in recent years.

What is happening with the United Methodist Church? United Methodists have been more or less civilly disagreeing about gay rights since the 1970s, but the issue came to a head in 2019. At a UMC ...

More than 4,000 congregations have broken away from the United Methodist Church since 2019 over disagreements on LGBTQ rights and other issues.

Nearly one-third of the churches in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church disaffiliated from the denomination in a special session on Nov. 19.

The United Methodist Church has been divided over whether to allow the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy since the denomination banned it in the Book of Discipline in 1972. Some traditionalist ...