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Seventy-four congregations in Florida have left the United Methodist Church over the denomination's longstanding debate over its stance on homosexuality.

The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, based in Lakeland, will vote Saturday on departure requests from 46 congregations.

Nearly 100 United Methodist Church congregations in Louisiana had their disaffiliation votes ratified by the regional conference last weekend.

The Florida Methodist Conference approved the disaffiliation of 55 churches on Saturday during a virtual session.

The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, based in Lakeland, will vote Saturday on requests from 55 churches to disaffiliate.

A Florida county judge has ruled against a group of congregations suing their regional body of the United Methodist Church over the payments they are required to make to proceed with disaffiliating from the denomination.

(RNS) — A second lawsuit, by 36 churches in North Carolina, was also dismissed last month.

Trinitys Forget-Me-Not window was a special gift By Tom Adamich Recently, I wrote about the beautiful windows at Monroe’s Trinity Episcopal Church that serve as a chronicle of Monroe’s 19th Century and early 20th Century history.  I focused on the Narthex, Memorial and most of the nave windows.  However, one nave window was not included and deserves a separate article: The Forget-Me-Not window. According to the Trinity Episcopal Church website, the Forget-Me-Not Window was a gift of Eliz...