United Methodism News Today

I sat in the graceful sanctuary of First United Methodist Church in Tifton this week to rejoice with United Methodists across south Georgia at a worship service to ordain and

After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.

I will miss the idea of a great national denomination, as American Christianity becomes post-denominational. But the new, less centralized expressions of Christianity in America will continue and even amplify God’s work.

As global demographics and views on LGBT issues changed, so did the fractured denomination.

The United Methodist Church could face a "seismic shift" if next week's business session approves sweeping measures to relax long-held denominational restrictions and policies on homosexuality, an outgoing leader said Wednesday.

“There seems to be a closer link between the denominational schisms and the coming of the war than has been commonly recognized.”

Dan Piller: Devout Christians who hoped to avoid politics during the Holy Week between Palm Sunday and Easter were sorely disappointed.

Good News and the Wesleyan Covenant Association used to operate as unofficial traditionalist caucuses within The United Methodist Church, advocating at General Conference and elsewhere on denominational policy.

Thousands of congregations have left the church amid a dispute about gay marriage and ordaining LGBT ministers.

"Regionalization" is for now allowing African bishops to stay loyal to the United Methodist Church, but by April something will have to give.