Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a matter of days, Ohio pastor Angie Cox and her wife went from contemplating moving to a more permissive region of the United ...

The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to close 21 churches on Monday during its annual ...

Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow. A new ...

The United Methodist Church will allow regions of the global body to maintain biblical standards on sexual ethics, following the denomination's vote last year to remove such rules. Amendment I, which ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In May 2024 during the United Methodist Church’s (UMC) General Conference held in Charlotte, North Carolina, leaders of the denomination made a historic decision to lift its ...

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church convened in Tampa last week. I’m not one of the 988 delegates who have descended on Florida to do the work of our church, nor of the 4,000 hosts, ...

Ruben Saenz Jr has become the new president of The United Methodist Church Council of Bishops He succeeds Bishop Tracy S Malone, the first black woman to serve in the role ...

After the United Methodist Church voted this spring to allow its clergy to marry same-sex couples and lifted its ban on ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy, Methodists around the world watched how the ...

More than 100 churches recently left the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church without the usual attention that hundreds of departing congregations across the nation have received in ...

On Sunday, Oct. 13, Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton is offering the class, “Remembering the 2012 UMC General Conference Act of Repentance toward Healing Relationships with Indigenous Peoples.” ...