The theme of the United Methodist general conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, emblazoned on banners, tote bags, and name tags, was a snippet of Psalm 46: “Know that I am God.” At the end of the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Days before their denomination dismantled decades of policies limiting the role of the LGBTQ+ community in the church, the Methodists sipped ale in an Irish pub and sang along to ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top policymaking assembly illustrated on Monday the legislative slog the 700-plus delegates are encountering. On the first day of the second and final ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top legislative assembly has dealt with most of the seemingly contentious proposals dealing with LGBTQ+ rights and restructuring the denomination in the ...

Seventy churches in Georgia split from the United Methodist Church (UMC) last week largely over LGBTQ issues, marking the latest in a growing divide within the third-largest Protestant denomination in ...

Background A 2019 general conference special session was the last time the denomination had the opportunity to vote on officiating or hosting same-sex marriages and ordaining LGBTQ clergy. The church ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The future of the United Methodist Church is up in the air. Bishops across the country are conflicted on the issue of LGBTQ weddings and clergy. In 2019, the church voted to ...

A year after a historic vote to settle stance on homosexuality, the denomination is planning for divide. The United Methodist Church (UMC) voted to settle the question of the church’s stance on ...

(RNS) — After a four-year COVID-19 delay, and the departure of about 25% of its U.S. churches, the United Methodist Church is meeting again and the issue of human sexuality is back on the agenda. (RNS ...

No UMC church in SC has formally started disaffiliation. More than 300 UMC churches nationwide have disaffiliated. Exactly how the process will work and what it would mean are still to be determined.

An effort to remove anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions at the UMC General Conference emerged in response to decades of traditionalist legislative wins. While also removing anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions, progressive ...