In this photo provided by the United Methodists of Eastern Pennsylvania, Rev. Dr. Beth Stroud, right, holds hands with Bishop John Schol after offering a prayer of blessing at the Wildwoods Convention ...

The United Methodist Church’s experience with the disaffiliations of a number of its congregations has received widespread ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. United Methodists have for generations been a mainstay of the American religious landscape — one of the most geographically ...

Jorge Lockward, left, minister of worship arts at the Church of the Village in New York City, leads a spontaneous group of United Methodists in singing songs of liberation after the vote to eliminate ...

Thousands of United Methodists are gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, for their big denominational meeting, known as General Conference. It's a much-anticipated gathering. Typically it is held ...

The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday to restructure the worldwide denomination to give each region greater equity in tailoring church life to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Days before their denomination dismantled decades of policies limiting the role of the LGBTQ+ community in the ...

The yearly meeting for Michigan’s Methodists is typically an eventful affair, filled with sessions on church finances, ordinations, music, worship and more. When representatives for the nearly 130,000 ...

There are people in the pews, dollars in the collection plates, and 65 million Americans who claim to be Protestants. But the outwardly prosperous Christian churches are beset with inner anxiety.

The Global Methodist Church, a new denomination of theologically conservative Methodists, will officially launch on May 1, a move that was expected for some time in the fight over full inclusion of ...

The Rev. Michael D. Stinson, lead pastor of East Point First Mallalieu United Methodist Church, sees a new future for the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Stinson was among ...

United Methodists have for generations been a mainstay of the American religious landscape — one of the most geographically widespread of the major Protestant denominations, their steeples visible on ...