While most of mainline Protestantism — whether Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, or United Church of Christ — has declared victory in the gay-marriage wars and moved on to bigger, juicier heresies, ...

Several Methodist leaders said the third-largest Protestant denomination in the United States is facing a growing divide as conservative clergy push back against liberals they claim are being ...

First Methodist Church of Irving announced it has officially joined the Global Methodist Church Saturday after officially disaffiliating from the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church ...

BOISE, Idaho — Pastor Duane Anders has been a minister in the United Methodist Church for most of his adult life. For the last eight years, he has been the senior pastor at the largest Methodist ...

Leaders in the United Methodist Church have offered a proposal that would allow congregations to form a "traditionalist-minded" denomination as the church struggles with its official stance on gay ...

DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) — An astounding number of Harvest Church congregants have voted to leave the United Methodist denomination. On January 13, Harvest released a statement saying the church will allow ...

On Jan. 3, the United Methodist Church (UMC) made headlines around the world with news that it would be splitting over issues of LGBTQ+ inclusion. Except that’s not exactly what’s happening. The Rev.

JACKSON, Tenn. — Amid growing tensions at the international level in the United Methodist Church and decisions for each church to make regarding their status within the denomination, the membership of ...

In recent years, the deep division over sexuality in the United Methodist Church has led many in the church to use a word they hadn’t heard since their European history classes: “schism.” A schism, ...

The United Methodist Church is in danger of breaking up after a small majority of its 2019 conference attendees voted to keep LGBTQ bans in place. At its general conference in St. Louis Monday, the ...

The United Methodist Church has proposed splitting into separate entities in order to resolve long-standing disagreements over the issues of same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay clergy, ...