In a sizable addition to a national wave in the United Methodist Church, 264 churches in the East Tennessee-based UMC conference left the denomination Saturday. Delegates for the Holston Conference ...

New breakaway denomination moves up its launch as the United Methodist Church announces it’ll be two more years before voting on a split over LGBT stances. The United Methodist Church has delayed its ...

Jul. 1—In April, the bishop of the United Methodist Church's North Georgia Annual Conference appointed Steven Usry as the new senior pastor for Mt. Bethel UMC in east Cobb. Usry was scheduled to take ...

More than 100 churches recently left the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church without the usual attention that hundreds of departing congregations across the nation have received in ...

East Cobb’s Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church must pay $13.1 million to the Methodist denomination in order to leave and become an independent church, lawyers involved in the case confirmed. The ...

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 United ...