FLORENCE — After years of battling over finances, human sexuality, property rights and religious discipline, 113 United Methodist Churches formally left the denomination during the annual state ...
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 disaffiliations, ...
In a recent commentary about the United Methodist Church split, columnist Paul DeMarco expressed heartbreak at driving past former UMCs whose signs were changing. I empathize with his grief. But I ...
Joseph B. Bethea United Methodist Church, Horry County, S.C. The Carolina Forest congregation continues to be affiliated with the UMC church after over 100 SC churches left the denomination in June ...
The largest Methodist church in South Carolina will soon sever its connection to the country’s largest Methodist denomination. The congregation at Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church in Lexington has ...
A lawyer representing multiple congregations facing legal hurdles in their attempts to leave the largest mainline Methodist denomination in the U.S. said the battles are ultimately financial. "It's ...
A long-running battle between one of the state’s largest churches and several of its local congregations is heading for one South Carolina judge’s desk. S.C. Chief Justice John Kittredge has ...
Jan. 18—The General Conference of the United Methodist Church is looking to the future, and its leaders want to focus on collaboration after the shakeup over the homosexuality clause in the Book of ...
Hundreds of congregations of the United Methodist Church voted to leave the denomination Saturday, and remaining congregations have just six weeks left to decide whether to leave or stay amid the ...