The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.

Facing a shortage of qualified pastors and less interest by younger generations in religious institutions, a year-old church with a unique name in Allegany County is attempting to set a new path ...

For the second time this year, the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church will convene Saturday to consider requests for separation from dozens of congregations. The conference, based in ...

A top United Methodist Church commission met Thursday to discuss yet again postponing the denomination's General Conference in late August and into early September. The regularly scheduled meeting of ...

The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church will vote Saturday on the final round of congregations seeking to leave the denomination, a slate of 74 churches. The conference, based in ...

Seventy churches in Georgia split from the United Methodist Church (UMC) last week largely over LGBTQ issues, marking the latest in a growing divide within the third-largest Protestant denomination in ...

LEXINGTON — South Carolina’s largest United Methodist Church plans to leave the denomination just three weeks after the state organization approved an agreement for congregations seeking separation.

(RNS) — Perhaps the third time will be the charm for United Methodists awaiting a vote to officially split the denomination. The United Methodist Church has announced the dates for the next meeting of ...

The Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church, which gathers this week in Hot Springs, is preparing to lose its longtime bishop, Gary Mueller, while bracing, as well, for the departure of a ...