"The Council of Bishops has responded to the UMC’s institutional uncertainty by crafting a new vision statement." ...

A lay leader for the Global Methodist Church, a splinter group that broke off from United Methodists, referred to last week’s United Methodist General Conference as a “debacle” during a meeting of the ...

The United Methodist General Conference that ended May 3 approved a plan for full communion with Episcopalians, pending approval by the 2027 Episcopal Church General Convention. But what about the ...

The Global Methodist Church (GMC), a conservative denomination formed from a schism with the United Methodist Church (UMC), is focusing on its own growth and mission. The schism, largely driven by ...

On the other side of disaffiliation, traditionalist congregations pursue prayer, revival, and revitalization. June Fulton felt weird sitting in the third pew. At every service since she joined the ...

ENID, Okla. — Willow View Church in Enid joined the Global Methodist Church in September 2023 after being independent for about a year following a congregational vote to disaffiliate from the United ...

More than 6,200 churches in the U.S. have left the United Methodist Church amid a splintering and launch of more conservative, breakaway denomination, the Global Methodist Church. Churches outside the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Violent clashes have broken out between groups of Methodists in Nigeria and Liberia as a divide over the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage has split the United ...

A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country's largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender identity.

Ahead of the first general conference, the new denomination is weighing possible limits on leaders. There were too many meetings. When Mike Lowry became a bishop in the Central Texas Conference of the ...

A Lubbock woman is joining denominational leadership in the Global Methodist Church. Dianne Burnett was recently named executive director of communications for the new denomination, which launched ...

Leaders of a Woodlands Boy Scout troop say they are losing their longtime charter organization and being kicked out of their meeting space due to the host church’s anti-LGBTQ policies. In a June 19 ...