Brian Harkin/Stringer/Getty Images News Since the lawsuit started, a traditionalist offshoot, called the Global Methodist Church, broke away from the denomination to form its own as more conservative ...

Meanwhile, conservative factions in Texas expressed concerns over the church's apparently lax style for enforcing such bans and formed breakaway denominations including the Global Methodist Church.

Questions of bishops stirred controversy in Costa Rica. Amid the joy of the convening General Conference of the Global Methodist Church as the new denomination ratified and modified the ...

Amid the decline of nearly all U.S. Protestant denominations, both liberal and conservative, the new Global Methodist Church (GMC) has emerged and last week convened its first governing general ...

As all this has been developing, the Global Methodist Church—a theologically conservative breakaway denomination—also has been getting off the ground. The Global Methodist Church, organized by ...

The Global Methodist Church, made up mostly of churches that disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church, has steered away from some United Methodist practices such as its annual clergy ...

CALEDONIA — Salem Global Methodist Church will hold its annual ice cream social 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, in its Family Center. The church is located at 1640 Salem Road, at the corner of ...

Oliveto said. That is, until this year's United Methodist General Conference, the church's global legislative body, voted to overturn every ban on LGBTQ people. The historic changes include a new ...

Willimon said even conservative breakaway groups like the new Global Methodist Church, comprised of many former UMC congregations, face similar challenges with predominately white, aging memberships.

A lay leader for the Global Methodist Church, a splinter group that broke off from United Methodists, referred to last week’s United Methodist General Conference as a “debacle” during a ...

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 ...