The report highlights the disproportionate number among disaffiliated churches, including how most disaffiliations were in southern jurisdictions.

As the United Methodist Church went through a schism that resulted in more than half of all churches in Alabama leaving in ...

The United Methodist Church is part of the tradition of mainline Protestantism that now tends to be broadly progressive in its theology and traditional in its worship style.

5,505 disaffiliations, 17 legal battles and new alternative Methodist groups. Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United Methodist Church's splintering.

Farone began serving as pastor of Perry United Methodist Church, a part-time position, on July 1.

The Rev. Kevin Thomas, pastor of Forest Lake United Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, will become the new senior pastor of First United Methodist of Birmingham, effective July 1.

Karen Kistler [email protected] SALISBURY — First United Methodist Church of Salisbury is welcoming a new ...

A Waurika congregation's planned exit from the United Methodist Church hit a snag, but church members are seeing good things come from it.

The Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in an ongoing legal saga between the United Methodist Church and Southern Methodist University over who governs the university.

Third and final report on UMC disaffiliations looks at the geography of the denomination's current splintering and its parallels to 1844 schism.