Trinity United Methodist Church is seen on Friday at Lark and Lancaster streets in Albany. The church is planning to close in June. Trinity United Methodist Church is seen on Friday at Lark and ...

The conference filed a lawsuit in Greenville County in November against the former Simpsonville United Methodist Church, claiming ownership of its buildings through the trust clause created with ...

the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the United Methodist Church over LGBTQ rights. The new denomination announced its plans on the same day the UMC postponed its General ...

RICHFIELD — Five generations of Linda Engle’s family worshipped at Richfield United Methodist Church before she and the congregation decided in late December to leave the denomination due to ...

Because of an editing error, a previous version of a picture caption misidentified a church in Washington whose banner was burned in 2020. It was the Asbury United Methodist Church, not the ...

CENTERVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Centerville United Methodist Church caught fire Monday afternoon. At 2:55 p.m., an emergency communication was sent out for Hickman County stating that the area of ...

“In their complaint, the plaintiffs asked the Montgomery County Circuit Court to decide matters that would have required it to interpret the United Methodist Book of Discipline and church ...

Laura Bullard is the senior researcher for Today, Explained, where she has been footnoting and mercilessly splitting hairs since 2021. Last week, hundreds of United Methodist Church (UMC ...

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.

It took decades of activism for a change that was "so very healing," said McAvoy, pastor of Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church in Hope, Rhode Island. A member of the Queer Delegate ...

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...

The United Methodist Church on Wednesday voted to lift its ban prohibiting LGBTQ+ members from serving in the church’s clergy—the latest measure in an ongoing effort to revisit the church’s ...