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The break echoes similar splits among mainstream Protestant denominations.

The break echoes similar splits among mainstream Protestant denominations.

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.

[Religion News Service] It was the thing that was supposed to save the United Methodist Church. The Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separati

(RNS) — Before United Methodists could vote on the widely endorsed plan, traditionalists went ahead and launched a new denomination and several representatives of centrist and progressive groups revoked their support.

Leaders in the United Methodist Church explained the deeper reasons behind the widening gulf within the third-largest Protestant denomination in the United States.

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The Rev. Junius B. Dotson records a segment of the “Soul Reset” study series for the Upper Room at United Methodist Communications in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2019. Dotson, the top executive of Discipleship Ministries, died on Feb. 24, 2021. He was 55. | Mike DuBose/UM News An official in the United Methodist Church who helped create a proposed plan of gracious separation for the denomination has died from cancer at age 55. The Rev. Junius B. Dotson, the general secretary and chief executi...