But the denomination’s logo — two red flames intertwined with a thin, black cross — means something else to the Rev. Edlen Cowley, pastor of Fellowship United Methodist Church near Dallas.

More than half of the United Methodist churches across Alabama have disaffiliated from the denomination, and the signs are becoming obvious – churches are literally changing their signs ...

A cross and flame is the official logo of the United Methodist Church, which compromises the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States. But over 6,000 U.S. congregations have ...

one without the cross and flame logo of the UMC. Last month, the vote of their church, along with 58 others in Louisiana, to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church was approved, part of a ...

The old hymnals and pew bibles in Pastor Danny Motta’s West Frankfort church featuring a familiar cross-and-flame insignia are gone. The church has a new logo and a new name, too. So does one of ...

Frazer Memorial Methodist Church in Montgomery is now officially no longer part of the United Methodist Church. The 7,000-member Frazer Church is the most prominent Alabama congregation to leave ...

MIDLAND — The cross-and-flame symbol on ... forged by the merger of Methodist and St. Mary Hospital will take its place. The Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church cleared ...

A downtown Modesto landmark, the First United Methodist Church, dedicated its new “cross and flame” signs Sunday. Members of the 16th Street congregation enjoyed a barbecue on the lawn as part ...

One-fifth of United Methodist congregations in the United States have received permission to leave the denomination over disagreements over same-sex marriage and gay preachers. In annual ...