ATLANTA — Congregations across metro Atlanta are gathering for the first time since their independence from the United Methodist Church. It has been just three days since the North Georgia Methodist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a historic day and an unprecedented moment for the United Methodist Church. Leaders of the north Georgia conference voted ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A local judge ruled that a congregation has the right to leave the United Methodist Church without a fight. Mt. Bethel Church in Cobb County was one of the first churches to blaze ...

The authors are Emma Anne Stephens, Tate Keuler, and Natalia Del Pino, three students in Metro Nashville public high schools. Their essay is endorsed by their Belmont United Methodist Church ...

WEBER CITY, Va. (WJHL) – As part of a larger schism within the United Methodist Church (UMC) denomination, one local church has decided to break away to a newly-formed church that they believe offers ...

A division over whether the United Methodist Church should allow gay clergy and sanction same-sex marriages is causing a split within the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination, and on ...

Rev. Billy Hester (right) and a congregant of Asbury Memorial Church, in front of the model of "God's Door" placed in the Church. | Provided The Asbury Memorial Church in Savannah has officially ...

When representatives of Florida’s largest Methodist association gather in person for the first time in three years, some churches will be ready to say goodbye. The Florida Conference of the United ...

At their annual conference last February, conservative Methodists won the vote to keep the 3 rd largest Christian denomination in America traditional on the subjects of marriage and the clergy. They ...

A Columbia church has voted to become the only United Methodist Church in South Carolina to join a national campaign pushing for gay marriage rights. The Washington Street United Methodist Church ...

The Global Methodist Church welcomes Scott Jones, who led Methodists in Texas and had advocated for the “extreme center” and “staying at the table.” Bishop Scott Jones isn’t the first United Methodist ...