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The cascade of churches voting to leave the UMC centers on one policy: the denomination’s as-yet-unofficial commitment to both ordain and marry LGBT people within the church.
The Global Methodist Church, a breakaway denomination, gathered for its inaugural legislative assembly in September. That event reflected how a traditionalist insurgency within the UMC has since ...
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 ...
The United Methodist Church had anticipated the denomination would split over the issue of how to treat homosexuality, and in 2019 laid out rules for disaffiliation for reasons of conscience ...
A liturgical union irrevocably broken ends in divorce on Saturday when almost 200 United Methodist churches across western North Carolina are expected to leave the denomination.
This is a list of Methodist denominations (or Methodist connexions). Those not affiliated with the World Methodist Council are marked with an asterisk (*). This list includes some united and uniting churches with Methodist participation.
The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of the total, decided whether to leave the denomination or remain ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant [8] denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism.