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 ...

UMC General Conference, the denomination's international legislative assembly which meets every four years, will gather in Charlotte in April. Its agenda includes decisions on anti-LGBTQ policies.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Members of First Methodist Church in Shreveport are casting their votes this week to determine whether their congregation will affiliate with the Global Methodist denomination. This ...

The United Methodist General Conference that ended May 3 approved a plan for full communion with Episcopalians, pending approval by the 2027 Episcopal Church General Convention. But what about the ...

A lay leader for the Global Methodist Church, a splinter group that broke off from United Methodists, referred to last week’s United Methodist General Conference as a “debacle” during a meeting of the ...

Sixty-eight Arkansas congregations that left the United Methodist Church have joined the Global Methodist Church, a denomination formed in the midst of the breakup as a landing place for those leaving ...

A convening General Conference approves the new denomination with singing, prayer, a constitution, and interim bishops. There were lots of tears at the Global Methodist Church’s first General ...

A Lubbock woman is joining denominational leadership in the Global Methodist Church. Dianne Burnett was recently named executive director of communications for the new denomination, which launched ...

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 ...

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 ...