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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 Aiken's 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.