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Because of the current deep conflict within The United Methodist Church around issues of human sexuality, a local church shall have a limited right, under the provisions of this paragraph, to ...
Eighty-three churches were approved to part ways with the United Methodist Church this spring. Another 59 churches were approved Nov. 18. Another 59 churches were approved Nov. 18.
5,505 disaffiliations, 17 legal battles and new alternative Methodist groups. Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United Methodist Church's splintering.
The United Methodist Church is a mainline Protestant denomination that traces its roots to the Wesleyan revival movement in England and the Great Awakening in America. It has a global presence, a connectional polity, and a Wesleyan theology that emphasizes grace, faith, and holiness.
Mark Hipps-Figgs offers a prayer request during a service of Elizabeth Street United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Durham, N.C. Mark and Maxie Hipps-Figgs were the first gay couple ...
The Global Methodist Church is a conservative Methodist denomination that split from the United Methodist Church in 2022 over same-sex marriage and ordination issues. It has about 4,500 congregations and 4,500 ministers worldwide and follows Wesleyan-Arminian theology.
The Methodist Church was a Protestant denomination formed in 1939 by the reunion of northern and southern factions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1968 to become the United Methodist Church.
The United Methodist Church is the country’s — and Kentucky’s — second-largest Protestant denomination. The loss of 250 churches would shrink its presence in the Commonwealth by nearly half.