A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country's largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender identity.

There is civil strife going on within the Methodist church around the United States, and while members fight it out in disaffiliation battles centered around sexuality and power within the church, one ...

In 1766 Philip Embury and a handful of John Wesley’s disciples organized the first New World preaching societies of Methodism, which then was merely a dissident Anglican sect. Last week more than ...

United Methodism cannot seem to move beyond the homosexuality debate. As the once-every-four-year General Conference of the United Methodist Church wrapped up its business, few church leaders expected ...

Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...

Where is Methodism going? The writer does not really know where Methodism is bound. Like the mythical bird that flies backward, he only knows where he has been. One might say that Methodism is going ...

Splintering in the United Methodist Church following disagreements over theology and church policy — including dealing with LGBTQ+ rights — fueled exodus of thousands of churches. Many congregations ...

More than 7,500 churches in the United Methodist Church left following disagreements — including dealing with LGBTQ+ rights — upending financial and statistical landscape of the denomination. Staff at ...

On Dec. 31, the United Methodist Church will officially complete its realignment, a period of several years during which congregations could vote to leave the denomination. Up to a quarter of American ...