More than 20 church property lawsuits against the United Methodist Church that were still in the Alabama court system as 2025 ...

(RNS) — The thinning of the UMC’s conservative ranks makes this week’s conference a perfect time to address the issue. They have also passed a number of petitions on social issues, including one ...

(The Conversation) — The United Methodist Church will hold its General Conference, delayed several years by the pandemic, in April 2024. The meeting comes amid a dramatic divide over LGBTQ+ rights.

The worldwide Anglican Communion heads toward a schism as United Methodists embark on a restructuring plan putting ...

The ongoing divide of the United Methodist Church, which used to be the second largest protestant denomination in the U.S. after Southern Baptist Convention, might be a sign of broader societal ...

On Wednesday nights a handful of worshippers gather at the white-steepled church on Lafayette Street for a fellowship supper. Most of the congregants are elderly, a faithful remnant who have weathered ...

The United Methodist Church’s General Conference voted to remain opposed to homosexuality. U.S. mainline denominations are all deeply divided on gay issues. In 2003, the U.S. Episcopal Church ...

Kneeling in a little chapel in Aldersgate Street, London, a moody Anglican clergyman felt his heart “strangely warmed” by a feeling that through Jesus Christ he had been saved. The warming of John ...

The proposed union of four major American Protestant churches is a cart with four wheels—and one of the wheels is slow to turn. The Presbyterian and Episcopal churches and the United Church of Christ ...

Members of Louisiana churches that have disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church will likely encounter some small, barely noticeable changes when they return to the pews Sunday. That's if they ...

A small Maine congregation is suing a regional body of The United Methodist Church, claiming that the mainline denomination ...

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