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Oklahoman The inability to safely gather for in-person debate on issues like same-sex marriage hasnt stopped key developments from occurring in the global United Methodist Church, including in Oklahoma.  • A conservative Methodist group will host informational meetings in Oklahoma City and Tulsa on Saturday and Sunday to discuss plans to form another denomination. • Oklahomas United Methodist bishop has taken steps to deal with changing dynamics if a split in the United Methodist denom...

Oklahoma Methodists discuss transitions, ramifications of delayed debate over key issues Carla Hinton, Oklahoman © Provided Jimmy Nunn The inability to safely gather for in-person debate on issues like same-sex marriage hasnt stopped key developments from occurring in the global United Methodist Church, including in Oklahoma.  • A conservative Methodist group will host informational meetings in Oklahoma City and Tulsa on Saturday and Sunday to discuss plans to form ano...

Global Methodism’s New Church This week conservative United Methodists unveiled The Global Methodist Church, which will launch when the denomination formally splits. When will that split occur? In 2019 the 13 million–member global church stunned American liberals by strengthening its official teachings that affirm sex only within male-female marriage. United Methodism is the only major liberal American mainline Protestant denomination that has not weakened its sexuality teachings. Faithful...

(RNS) — The planned denomination said it will split from the existing United Methodist Church no matter what the General Conference decides in 2022.

The new Global Methodist Church will leave the UMC regardless of the General Conference decision, which has been delayed until 2022.

The Wesleyan Covenant Associations Global Gathering event at Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church in Marietta, Georgia in November 2018. Approximately 2,500 people attended. | Facebook/Wesleyan Covenant Association A group of theologically conservative United Methodists has announced the creation of a new denomination once the United Methodist Church officially separates due to its long-standing debate over homosexuality. The Wesleyan Covenant Association and the 17-member Transitional Leadershi...

By Heather Hahn Share Bishop Elaine J.W. Stanovsky presides as delegates hone their electronic voting skills during a practice election at the 2016 General Conference in Portland, Ore. In response to the Commission on the General Conference’s decision to further postpone the 2020 General Conference until 2022, the Council of Bishops has called a special session of the General Conference to be convened online on May 8, 2021. File photo by Paul Jeffrey, UM News. General Conference o...

A group of theologically conservative United Methodists has announced the creation of a new denomination once the United Methodist Church officially separates due to its long-standing debate over homosexuality.

United Methodists reschedule meeting — and decision on splitting — again In the meantime, bishops have called for another special session. Jessica LaGrone, a member of the Commission on a Way Forward, presents the Traditional Plan during the special session of the United Methodist Church General Conference in St. Louis on Feb. 24, 2019. RNS photo by Kit Doyle February 25, 2021 (RNS) — The United Methodist Church has once again postponed its quadrennial meeting due to the COV...

New document offers ways to foster Catholic-Methodist relationships Feb 21, 2021 catholic news service Bishop David P. Talley of Memphis, Tenn., is seen in this 2019 file photo. He co-chaired the eighth round of the dialogue between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United Methodist Church. (Credit: Rick Musacchio/Tennessee Register via CNS.) A two-part publication emerging from the most recent round of dialogue between representatives of the U.S. Catholic bishops and the United M...