The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the ...

RICHFIELD — Five generations of Linda Engle’s family worshipped at Richfield United Methodist Church before she and the congregation decided in late December to leave the denomination due to ...

The Methodist Church of Simpsonville, as it’s now called, announced its disaffiliation from the United Methodist Church on June 4, according to the lawsuit, and changed its corporate filings to ...

Cynthia B. Astle writes that the current conflict over control of SMU is the latest in a long-simmering dispute.(Ecoscape / Shutterstock) The legal dispute that threatens to separate Southern ...

A contentious, six-year legal battle between the United Methodist Church and Southern Methodist University is coming before the Texas Supreme Court today. The controversy centers around who maintains ...

By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a battle over whether Southern Methodist ... of the Mississippi River. Today, the university and the church’s ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas tried to declare its independence after the church voted to ban gay weddings and clergy in 2019. A sign at one of the entrances to the Southern Methodist ...

SINGAPORE – The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) has elected a new bishop. Reverend Philip Lim, 58, was elected the church’s new head at its 13th General Conference Session from Sept 2 to 6.

But in the years that followed, some 7,600 U.S. conservative Methodist congregations located mostly in the South left the church over its lack of enforcement of the anti-LGBTQ policies.

Laura Bullard is the senior researcher for Today, Explained, where she has been footnoting and mercilessly splitting hairs since 2021. Last week, hundreds of United Methodist Church (UMC ...

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 ...