A United Methodist official testified on Friday in Houston County court that Harvest Church in Dothan is subject to the denomination’s trust clause even if founding members of the church were unaware ...

GREENVILLE — After months of waiting, a statewide conference in its backyard and multiple lawsuits, former United Methodist churches have an answer on their next steps for formal separation. Eleven ...

Sixty-eight Arkansas congregations that left the United Methodist Church have joined the Global Methodist Church, a denomination formed in the midst of the breakup as a landing place for those leaving ...

As the United Methodist Church went through a schism that resulted in more than half of all churches in Alabama leaving in the past three years, weekly attendance reports to the North Alabama ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Several United Methodist Churches are listed as permanently closing their doors following the annual conference meeting of the United Methodist Churches for Alabama and West ...

Multiple South Carolina churches are taking their parent denomination to the S.C. Supreme Court to try to get out from under its jurisdiction and keep their church holdings intact. The lawsuit was ...

The NC Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the congregation of Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church, which was closed last year by the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. The ...

SIMPSONVILLE — An Upstate church faces a lawsuit from the denomination it tried to leave last year, with the state organization claiming it still owns the downtown Simpsonville building despite the ...

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 ...

SPIRIT ALIVE. TWO LOCAL METHODIST CHURCHES IN WINSTON-SALEM ARE MERGING. WE CAUGHT UP WITH BOTH PASTORS EARLIER TODAY AS ONE PLANS TO RETIRE THE OTHER IS GETTING READY TO LEAD BOTH CONGREGATIONS UNDER ...

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.

On a Sunday morning in 2020, while Rev. Andi Woodworth welcomed her congregation to the Neighborhood Church in Atlanta, Georgia, she had an epiphany. For years, Woodworth said she and her wife and ...