Hundreds of United Methodist pastors have signed a proposal aimed at avoiding a schism over homosexuality in a denomination that has, until recently, largely sat out the gay equality movement. The ...

Pulled right and left by various factions of the global church, the UMC’s decision-making body meets this weekend to pick a path forward. One of the world’s largest Christian denominations faces ...

United Methodists sponsor food pantries and participate in community feeding programs and other ministries aimed at reducing ...

ONE OF AMERICA’S largest Protestant denominations voted in May to prohibit the solemnization of same-sex unions in its churches, to withhold ordination from practicing homosexuals, to ban church ...

(RNS) — It was the thing that was supposed to save the United Methodist Church. The Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation, brokered by 16 United Methodist bishops and advocacy group ...

More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ+ people in the ...

United Methodists have for generations been a mainstay of the American religious landscape — one of the most geographically widespread of the major Protestant denominations, their steeples visible on ...

The United Methodist Church is on the verge of a historic decision following a costly splintering. Here's how it's shaping up ...

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

There’s broad support for a new plan to allow traditional marriage proponents to leave the UMC with $25 million in funding. Factions in the United Methodist Church (UMC) have reached an initial ...

The Hearst Press is currently engaged in one of its periodic Red-hunts, this time against schoolteachers and college professors. Other Red-fearers up & down the land are urging passage of a Federal ...