(RNS) — After a four-year COVID-19 delay, and the departure of about 25% of its U.S. churches, the United Methodist Church is meeting again and the issue of human sexuality is back on the agenda. (RNS ...

The dismantling of Mississippi's Methodist denomination was on full display Wednesday in Tupelo. Mississippi United Methodist Conference's eligible voters agreed to ratify the disaffiliations of 189 ...

United Methodist delegates from Alabama converged in Charlotte on Tuesday for the start of the United Methodist General Conference, the denomination’s worldwide policy-making meeting that continues ...

An effort to remove anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions at the UMC General Conference emerged in response to decades of traditionalist legislative wins. While also removing anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions, progressive ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church in Wilmington has announced that it is taking legal action against the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC).

Numerous church congregations in northeast Georgia and across north Georgia reached a deadline on Thursday for disaffiliating with the North Georgia United Methodist Church Conference. The North ...

An Oklahoma pastor is traveling to the United Methodist Church's General Conference with one big goal in mind: to see the ban on same-sex marriage and gay ordination lifted. "It will be a big change ...

For the first time in 91 years, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church convenes in Pensacola, home of "the mother church of Florida Methodism." The group will gather to ...

CHARLOTTE — When United Methodist Church gathers this month to make policy changes, it will do so without 7,600 congregations who fear the modifications that could be made when the lawmaking body ...

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — Among the rules overturned were a ban on bishops ordaining LGBTQ candidates for ministry, a ban on funding for LGBTQ affinity groups as well as a series of mandatory penalties ...

The United Methodist Church’s request to oust a renegade congregation from its coastal church campus was rejected this week by a Florida judge. The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United ...