(RNS) — Organizers of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference announced last week they are moving forward with plans for the meeting next fall … for now. But, the Commission on the General ...

Staff photo by Wyatt Massey / The Rev. Caryl Griffin Russell, a retired United Methodist Church minister, stands near her home on Watts Bar Lake in Ten Mile, Tenn., on Friday. Griffin led a same-sex ...

Facing a shortage of qualified pastors and less interest by younger generations in religious institutions, a year-old church with a unique name in Allegany County is attempting to set a new path ...

The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.

A top United Methodist Church commission met Thursday to discuss yet again postponing the denomination's General Conference in late August and into early September. The regularly scheduled meeting of ...

Seventy churches in Georgia split from the United Methodist Church (UMC) last week largely over LGBTQ issues, marking the latest in a growing divide within the third-largest Protestant denomination in ...

The United Methodist Church General Conference, which is the international legislative assembly for the denomination that meets every four years, will take place April 22 - May 3 in Charlotte. The ...

The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church will vote Saturday on the final round of congregations seeking to leave the denomination, a slate of 74 churches. The conference, based in ...

No UMC church in SC has formally started disaffiliation. More than 300 UMC churches nationwide have disaffiliated. Exactly how the process will work and what it would mean are still to be determined.