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It’s been about 170 days since Bishop Delores Williamston took the helm as leader of Louisianas United Methodist Church, and she’s spent many of them trekking to local churches across

The departure of our United Methodist siblings mirrors the departure of civil dialogue in our society today.

Without congressional support, a corrupt US Supreme Court ruled in their favour in 2017.

Re: “Survivors mark date in own ways — Death anniversaries mean painful choices for families,” Monday news story. I call them “heroes” because I can’t bear to...

The Oklahoma United Methodist Conference will gather in Tulsa for an annual meeting, the first such gathering since 84 churches disaffiliated.

“This isn't a Democratic problem or a Republican problem; it's a human family problem.”

Hundreds more United Methodist churches in Alabama and on Florida's Gulf Coast will disaffiliate in May.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — More than 100 Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia churches are among 264 that have officially split with the United Methodist Church (UMC) Saturday at a called special session of the Holston Conference. The number represents 31% of churches in the conference, which stretches from the Chattanooga metro area to the Blacksburg, […]

At First United Methodist Church of Irwin over the past month, there’s been more than a few new faces in the pews. According to congregation member Bonnie Judy, her church has started to attract people looking for a new church home, after their own churches decided to leave the denomination.

Thirty-eight United Methodist Church congregations in Maryland and West Virginia have sued the Baltimore-Washington Conference and its leader, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, claiming the regional body is extorting a "financial ransom" of half their church property value as they seek to leave the denomination.