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 ...

With discussions underway, Schwartz and Greenlee said their churches started to strip their buildings of the United Methodist Church's name and scrub off the logo, a cross with a red flame.

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 ...