SPARTANBURG — Come this weekend, more than 100 congregations across South Carolina who had “United Methodist Church” in their name will have their first Sunday services no longer under the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., lost about a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023 due to disaffiliations, ...

FLORENCE — After years of battling over finances, human sexuality, property rights and religious discipline, 113 United Methodist Churches formally left the denomination during the annual state ...

Amid splintering in UMC, ongoing study on disaffiliations publishes third and final report. Policy allowing disaffiliations expired at end of 2023. A quarter of all UMC churches disaffiliated between ...

A long-running battle between one of the state’s largest churches and several of its local congregations is heading for one South Carolina judge’s desk. S.C. Chief Justice John Kittredge has ...

A Pride flag outside Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kan., in 2019. For Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey, the last two years have resembled a drawn-out quarrel between members of a very ...

For Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey, the last two years have resembled a drawn-out quarrel between members of a very large family: people squabble, agree to disagree, face the consequences and then, ...