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The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...
"The proposed use of ¶2549 contradicts the clear intent of ¶2549 by taking members and properties from the United Methodist Church and continuing religious activities as a new entity no longer a ...
5,505 disaffiliations, 17 legal battles and new alternative Methodist groups. Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United Methodist Church's splintering.
The Rev. Keith Boyette, who is the Global Methodist Church’s top executive, said it has registered about 4,100 U.S. churches so far — former UMC churches as well as new ones organized by ...
After the annual conference of 2024, the United Methodist Church can ordain LGBTQ men and women, and the UMC allows same-gender weddings. ... While it might be easy to point to disaffiliation as a ...
The process for disaffiliation is implemented through Paragraph 2553 in the UMC Book of Discipline as adopted by the 2019 general conference of the United Methodist Church.
Dialogues with the Catholic Church included a visit to Vatican City in April 2006, where Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Walter Kasper of the Pontifical Council for the Promoting Christian Unity received an official United Methodist delegation and discussed aspects of dialogue and relationship and the global nature of the two communions. In ...
Third and final report on UMC disaffiliations looks at the geography of the denomination's current splintering and its parallels to 1844 schism.