The Southern Baptist Convention split from the College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Amazing Grace Community Church in Franklinville, New Jersey, over the churches ...

Bishop Gene Robinson: "God called me out of the closet" 12:21 Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud.

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.

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 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.

The Rev. Mvume Dandala of Johannesburg, South Africa will speak to churches, service clubs and high school students Sunday-Thursday as part of the "New World Mission" program sponsored by the ...