The United Methodist Judicial Court backed up its previous ruling last year that closing a church cannot be used as a back door for allowing a congregation to leave the denomination and take its ...

Below are lists of Mississippi Methodist churches that have officially left the United Methodist Church since 2019 as well as those who have voted to leave, but have not been ratified by the ...

“Born and raised” in St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, Walter McCloney said he strives to keep his “commitment (to the church) palatable.” The Beaumont Enterprise reports the 79 ...

Despite the vote, Methodist clergy as well as the conference itself have been tightlipped about the process. Rev. Barry Male, the pastor for the largest church in Mississippi to have been ratified ...

recordings of the many uncelebrated scribes of history. Records dating back to 1834 from the Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church tell of a Henry Stephenson's appointment to ...

Two Mississippi United Methodist Church ministers are facing the possibility of being defrocked after officiating what the church is calling a same-sex wedding, which church law currently forbids.

In yet another round of disaffiliations within Mississippi's United Methodist Churches, many congregations are splitting to make known where they stand on church doctrine. Meanwhile, others are ...

As United Methodist Churches across Mississippi are increasingly taking votes to disaffiliate from their parent organization, there is one small church that has voted to stick it out, at least for ...

Mississippi churches had until the end of October to have a church vote. In this latest round, Mississippi’s largest Methodist church, Jackson’s Christ United Methodist Church, voted to part ...

At the start of Holy Week, a Mississippi church chose to leave its denomination because of conflicts about homosexuality, abortion and the teaching of Islam. The First United Methodist Church of ...