Auburn Methodist Coalition's lawsuit seeking forced disaffiliation vote was dismissed and a re-hearing denied.

The United Methodist Church was first organized as the First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1881. The first meeting place was ...

The 6,000-plus U.S. churches that split from the United Methodists as of June were disproportionately white and Southern but also had more in common — from median attendance size to growth rate — with ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of three stories on a split in the United Methodist Church (UMC) as some congregations have elected to “disaffiliate” due to conflicts — including an ongoing debate over ...

The United Methodist Church’s first openly-lesbian bishop, Karen Oliveto, came to speak at Aspen Chapel on Sunday to kick off Gay Ski Week, which made for a small yet seismic ripple in a wider ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WHNT) — Several Methodist churches across ...

More churches have disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church as the prominent Protestant denomination continues its split along lines of progressive and traditional theology. On Saturday, 96 ...