On Friday, the Northern Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to close 20 churches in its jurisdiction, including Isom’s Chapel.. But when FOX54 reached out to representatives ...

In a legal win for the UMC, the Texas Supreme Court last week ruled that the church's South Central Jurisdictional Conference ...

The events this weekend for the Wesleyan Covenant Association — the main organization behind the formation of the Global Methodist Church — are helping form the backbone of the new denomination.

Following historic splintering in denomination, United Methodist Church saw major policy and administrative changes this year. As part of that, many U.S. bishops received new assignments. United ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The United Methodist Church is facing a crisis that will define its future. Roughly a quarter of its 30,000 congregations in the U.S. are leaving over the church's views on ...

Hundreds of congregations of the United Methodist Church voted to leave the denomination Saturday, and remaining congregations have just six weeks left to decide whether to leave or stay amid the ...

Why Is The United Methodist Church Changing Its Lgbtq+ Policies? The changes at this year’s General Conference are the culmination of a yearslong reckoning that prompted a historic schism in the ...

For now, I can go home again. The church in which I was raised, Centenary United Methodist in McComb, and the Jackson church of which I was a 20-year member, Galloway Memorial United Methodist ...

Pastor Phil Rogers, of Manchester United Methodist Church, says they’re parting ways for several reasons, which includes performing same-sex weddings and ordaining LGBT-Q ministers.

Bishop Scott Jones speaks during an oral hearing before the United Methodist Judicial Council, the denomination’s top court, on May 22, 2018, in Evanston, Illinois.

(RNS) — Southern Methodist University has moved to cut ties with the United Methodist Church after the denomination voted to strengthen rules barring LGBTQ members from marriage and ordination ...