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How the internet is making everything nondenominational.

As secularism takes over Western Europe and as the United States is rapidly heading that way, some are saying that the major center of Christianity in the world is shifting to Africa.

If you are not familiar with the process of Ash Wednesday, this story will help illustrate.

(RNS) — A proposed regionalization plan would undo the dominance and control of the US church and make it on par with United Methodist conferences abroad.

"It astounds me that something so beautiful and powerful as a blessing, and marriage and ordination certainly are about blessing, could be controversial," the Rev. Stephen Brehe says.

Lately we "woke" folks have been keeping track of a hot-button issue that raises blood pressure and breaks hearts: attacks on transgender children and youth in statehouses and local school boards across America.

(RNS) — The same area of the country that tends to be the most politically conservative and Republican-leaning was where most United Methodist churches voted to leave the denomination.

When the United Methodist Church split, congregations that disaffiliated did so to remain in the spirit of the traditional church and joined the Global Methodist Church.

One of Aikens largest and oldest congregations is on track to change its denominational affiliation in the wake of a Jan. 21 vote by church members.

After a historic rift in the United Methodist Church over LGBT issues, pastors and members see hope, others uncertainty, in the denomination's future.