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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.
Pastor Harley Wheeler of the Broadway Global Methodist Church, right, speaks about disaffiliation from the United Methodist denomination in New Philadelphia. "For 30 years I've been fighting battles.
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.
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).
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 ...