LUBBOCK — For the first time, hundreds of clergy and laypeople from dozens of churches in West Texas gathered Friday and Saturday as Global Methodists, ushering in a new era for Methodism in the ...

Less than a week after a judge declined to intervene, representatives of the United Methodist Church will vote on whether to allow dozens of churches to depart the denomination. The Florida Conference ...

For the second time this year, the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church will convene Saturday to consider requests for separation from dozens of congregations. The conference, based in ...

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.

Camp Otterbein has entertained summer campers in Hocking Hills for decades. But this summer, the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church canceled residential summer camps citing a lack of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Changes are coming to the United Methodist Church (UMC). On Sunday, a breakaway denomination called the Global Methodist Church (GMC) will launch after denomination leaders expressed ...

Southern Methodist University last month amended its articles of incorporation to state that the school is not controlled by the United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdictional Conference but ...

Bishop Robin Dease grew up in a family with 12 brothers and sisters. With that many children, there was always something to fight about, recalled Dease, who shared the story during her packed ...

The dismantling of Mississippi's Methodist denomination was on full display Wednesday in Tupelo. Mississippi United Methodist Conference's eligible voters agreed to ratify the disaffiliations of 189 ...

Music and Christian Arts Ministry AME Praise dancers soulfully twirl, prance and dance to the music during the Opening Worship Service of the 51st AME Church General Conference at the Orange County ...

A historic meeting of the global United Methodist Church — one in which its future position on LGBT clergy and marriage was expected to be determined — has been postponed because of the coronavirus ...