Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of Global Methodist Church clergy and laypeople from across West Texas gather for the first-ever West Plains Provisional ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Changes are coming to the United Methodist Church (UMC). On Sunday, a breakaway denomination called the Global Methodist Church (GMC) will launch after denomination leaders expressed ...

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Charlotte is the first one that Robin Dease is attending as a bishop. And it’s likely the last one that retired Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader, ...

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 ...

The theme of the United Methodist general conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, emblazoned on banners, tote bags, and name tags, was a snippet of Psalm 46: “Know that I am God.” At the end of the ...

The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church last year sold the former Aldersgate United Methodist ...

The United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdictional Conference last week filed a lawsuit against Southern Methodist University to prevent the university from reconfiguring its relationship with ...

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.

The N.C. Conference of The United Methodist Church gathered for its annual meeting in Greenville last week and approved for the first time a candidate for ordination who is in a same-gender civil ...

LUBBOCK — For the first time, hundreds of clergy and laypeople from dozens of churches in West Texas gathered Friday and Saturday as Global Methodists, ushering in a new era for Methodism in the ...