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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEXINGTON — South Carolina’s largest United Methodist Church plans to leave the denomination just three weeks after the state organization approved an agreement for congregations seeking separation.

(RNS) — Perhaps the third time will be the charm for United Methodists awaiting a vote to officially split the denomination. The United Methodist Church has announced the dates for the next 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 ...

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.