There are currently two Oklahoma United Methodist houses of worship that have taken disaffiliation disputes to the civil courts. The congregations of First United Methodist Church of Oklahoma City, ...

The traditionalist exodus out of the United Methodist Church in the U.S. is definitively white, Southern and male-led, according to a scholarly analysis of the most recent available data. The report ...

Bishop Jonathan Holston, who took office on Sept. 1 as bishop over all United Methodist churches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, will oversee half as many churches as his predecessors. More than ...

Disaster struck just three weeks after an Oklahoma City congregation took out a large loan to sever ties with the United Methodist Church. The Rev. D.A. Bennett said St. Andrew's Community Church-GMC ...

Amid splintering in UMC, ongoing study on disaffiliations publishes third and final report. Policy allowing disaffiliations expired at end of 2023. A quarter of all UMC churches disaffiliated between ...

The last few years have been a challenging time for the United Methodist Church (UMC). Since 2019, some individual churches have started the process to disaffiliate, many doing so over disagreements ...

Eight more churches disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church on Sunday, including the 4,936-member Christ Methodist Church in Mobile, one of the city’s largest congregations. Christ Methodist ...

More churches have disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church as the prominent Protestant denomination continues its split along lines of progressive and traditional theology. On Saturday, 96 ...

A small white wood-paneled church in a rural field beside a graveyard United Methodist congregations are working through a complex process brought about by fears over possible changes in its doctrines ...

More than 6,000 churches have left the UMC amid over theology and church policy, including dealing with LGBTQ rights. Lewis Center for Church Leadership, a research center out of the UMC-affiliated ...

The traditionalist exodus out of the United Methodist Church in the U.S. is definitively white, Southern and male-led, according to a scholarly analysis of the most recent available data. The report ...