A recent exodus from the United Methodist Church that tore through the Bible Belt in the last year has reached New York state. The split is the end-game result of an ideological divide centered around ...

Nearly five dozen Michigan churches plan to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church amid a rift over LGBTQ+ issues that has fractured one of the country's largest Protestant denominations. Mark ...

A number of churches in the greater Tampa Bay region, including Sylvan Abbey Methodist Church in Clearwater, are breaking away from the United Methodist Church over divisions in doctrine and same-sex ...

Forty-three Wisconsin churches could see their wishes come true Friday to leave the United Methodist Church, the latest local development in a denomination-wide schism. More than 4,000 congregations ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A division over whether the United Methodist Church should allow gay clergy and sanction same-sex marriages is causing a split within the nation’s ...

Off North Sixth Street in north Fort Smith, across from the Midland Heights Clothes Closet, and two blocks north of the Graphic Packaging International on Boone Avenue, is a church that has been in ...

What some are calling a schism in the United Methodist Church over the issue of homosexuality is also affecting churches in the Pacific Northwest, although to a lesser degree. As many as 30 churches ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT)- The pastor at Flint's United Methodist Church said he's thrilled by the announcement of more inclusive policies at UMC's General Conference in North Carolina. After decades, ...

Differing beliefs over same-sex marriage and ordaining openly LGBTQ clergy have prompted 83 churches to leave the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Of the 750 conference churches ...