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 ...

Less than a week after a judge declined to intervene, representatives of the United Methodist Church will vote on whether to allow dozens of churches to depart the denomination. The Florida Conference ...

Bishop Robin Dease grew up in a family with 12 brothers and sisters. With that many children, there was always something to fight about, recalled Dease, who shared the story during her packed ...

Whereas United Methodists in some parts of Africa are leaving the denomination following a costly splintering, Zimbabweans' zeal is resolute.

Council of Bishops sets out to refocus on the UMC congregations that stay after 2023. United Methodist bishops have proposed a five-day meeting of the denomination’s global decision-making body, the ...

For the second time this year, the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church will convene Saturday to consider requests for separation from dozens of congregations. The conference, based in ...

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, ...

Music and Christian Arts Ministry AME Praise dancers soulfully twirl, prance and dance to the music during the Opening Worship Service of the 51st AME Church General Conference at the Orange County ...

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 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 ...

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.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A metro Atlanta church has raised the money it needs to become independent from the United Methodist Church. Channel 2 Action News reported on the Mt. Bethel and the North Georgia ...