Union Avenue United Methodist Church in Alliance fills out its Hartshorn Hallway with a handcrafted timeline detailing its vast history.

Bishop Karen Oliveto is retiring in a few months as a United Methodist bishop. Oliveto was emotional saying those words aloud. As the church's first openly gay bishop, her path was not always certain.

Not us," he says. "So when we say we're the church, we're referring to our Lord and not ourselves." The United Methodist congregation was founded in 1964, during boom times in Southern California.

“It’s so friendly,” she said, “you don’t feel like it’s a huge church.” Until July, White’s Chapel was the second-largest United Methodist congregation in the country. The ...

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its ministers from officiating at same ...

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 ...

The United Methodist Church on Wednesday voted to lift its ban prohibiting LGBTQ+ members from serving in the church’s clergy—the latest measure in an ongoing effort to revisit the church’s ...

The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality. The church has long been divided into factions ...

This year alone, 4,172 congregations left, according to an unofficial tally by United Methodist News Service. While the church forbids the marriage or ordination of “self-avowed, practicing ...

During a special session May 27, 95 churches were approved for disaffiliation from the United Methodist Church. The session was called "for the sole purpose of voting on the Louisiana Conference ...

Bishop Karen Oliveto sees her consecration in 2016 as a breaking point for some of the thousands of people who have made the once unthinkable decision to leave the United Methodist Church.

The service celebrated the local church officially becoming a “Global” Methodist church. It also served as a look back at its long history as a “United” Methodist church. It was one of the ...