Members of the crowd embrace, rejoicing over the vote. (Corbin Payne photo) The Rev. William Williams III, the Methodists' Meadowlands District superintendent, holds hands with Greater New Jersey ...

The breakup of the United Methodist Church has now officially come to East Tennessee. In the local expression of a historic church schism, one in three congregations in the regional Holston Conference ...

GREENVILLE — After months of waiting, a statewide conference in its backyard and multiple lawsuits, former United Methodist churches have an answer on their next steps for formal separation. Eleven ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — About 100 active and retired United Methodist bishops from across the globe are meeting this week in Chicago for the first time in person since the COVID-19 pandemic and since the ...

I must confess that I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what our friends in the United Methodist Church were thinking when they introduced resolutions calling for divesting stock in 20 companies ...

After decades of internal strife over LGBTQ issues, delaying their General Conference, and giving local churches an escape route to disaffiliate, the Methodist conference voted pro-LGBTQ earlier this ...

The issue of homosexuality is expected to dominate the national meeting of the United Methodist Church, which begins Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Over the next two weeks of deliberations, delegates from ...

Sixty-eight Arkansas congregations that left the United Methodist Church have joined the Global Methodist Church, a denomination formed in the midst of the breakup as a landing place for those leaving ...