ATLANTA — Congregations across metro Atlanta are gathering for the first time since their independence from the United Methodist Church. It has been just three days since the North Georgia Methodist ...

A division over whether the United Methodist Church should allow gay clergy and sanction same-sex marriages is causing a split within the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination, and on ...

NORTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — It was a historic day and an unprecedented moment for the United Methodist Church. Leaders of the north Georgia conference voted Thursday to allow more than 70 churches, ...

MUNCIE, Ind. − United Methodist Churches of Indiana is perhaps more united but smaller after 174 congregations separated from the UMC Thursday night during the denomination's annual state conference ...

What some are calling a schism in the United Methodist Church over the issue of homosexuality is also affecting churches in the Pacific Northwest, although to a lesser degree. As many as 30 churches ...

Thirty congregations of the United Methodist Church across Michigan have moved to disaffiliate over concerns that the church's doctrines are being weakened, particularly on LGBTQ issues. Seven ...

Scott Jones isn’t the first United Methodist bishop to join the Global Methodist Church since the theologically conservative denomination launched in May, but his exit from the UMC has arguably caused ...

At their annual conference last February, conservative Methodists won the vote to keep the 3 rd largest Christian denomination in America traditional on the subjects of marriage and the clergy. They ...

A historic meeting of the global United Methodist Church — one in which its future position on LGBT clergy and marriage was expected to be determined — has been postponed because of the coronavirus ...