The Rev. Carol Gullatt, pastor of the Abundant Grace church plant for United Methodists in Albertville,, accepts a United Methodist cross and flame logo sign from the Rev. Steve West.

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 second-largest Protestant denomination, and on ...

For more than 100 years, two churches affiliated with the United Methodist Church have held Sunday services in the middle of Scottdale. If each stays on its current path, by the end of this summer ...

The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to accept the decision of 261 congregations to leave the denomination over a divide on LGBTQ issues.

So far, 6,000 congregations out of more than 35,000 have left the United Methodist Church, and more are expected before the year ends, Lomperis said. “They’re not leaving Methodism,” he said. “They’re ...

Grimes United Methodist Church, the only Methodist church in the Des Moines metro to leave, must pay about $119,000 in apportionments and more than $68,000 in pension obligations, according to its ...

Further down La. 21, Waldheim United Methodist Church has already put up its new sign, Waldheim Methodist Church — minus the distinctive logo. But the process of leaving has been far from simple.

Philadelphia’s official stance is that local law enforcement doesn’t help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement perform ...