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The big-ticket ruling on pathways for church exits effectively ends the splintering in the UMC, though the denomination already took major steps in that direction at its top legislative assembly ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a ... However, it was conservative congregations that felt the time for disaffiliation had come. Their window for leaving the ...
5,505 disaffiliations, 17 legal battles and new alternative Methodist groups. Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United Methodist Church's splintering.
Third and final report on UMC disaffiliations looks at the geography of the denomination's current splintering and its parallels to 1844 schism.
The United Methodist Church will bear the same name after May 3, but in many ways will be an entirely new denomination. The UMC General Conference is gathering in Charlotte to decide on ...
This organization is the United Methodist Church's face in the ecumenical community developing relationships with other church bodies and is diligently seeking relationships with other faith bodies such as Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish communities to manifest the unity God has already given and for which Christ prayed (John 17:20-21).
United Methodist churches disaffiliating. Here is a list of all 142 churches within the Mississippi United Methodist conference, which were ratified for disaffiliation from the conference on Saturday.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has a General Conference every four years to make decisions and when a decision is made, they add it to the Book of Discipline. From the 2016 Book of Discipline, the United Methodist Church Website cites multiple decisions on homosexuality. On the basis of membership, all persons are eligible to "attend its ...