MENDHAM, NJ — Two Morris County churches, including Mendham Methodist Church, have won a preliminary injunction against a county policy that bars them from receiving tax dollars for preserving ...

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.

It took decades of activism for a change that was "so very healing," said McAvoy, pastor of Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church in Hope, Rhode Island. A member of the Queer Delegate ...

the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the United Methodist Church over LGBTQ rights. The new denomination announced its plans on the same day the UMC postponed its General ...

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...

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 ...

The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality. The church has long been divided into factions ...

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 ...

Mississippi's largest Methodist church continued a recent trend Sunday when Jackson's Christ United Methodist Church voted to part ways with the Mississippi United Methodist Conference.

Forty-three Wisconsin churches could see their wishes come true Friday to leave the United Methodist Church, the latest local development in a denomination-wide schism. More than 4,000 ...

“It’s so friendly,” she said, “you don’t feel like it’s a huge church.” Until July, White’s Chapel was the second-largest United Methodist congregation in the country. The ...