As the Global Methodist Church gets ready to mark two years since it launched on May 1, 2022, it has gradually taken shape as a new denomination after a split with the United Methodist Church.

A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country's largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender identity.

This is one of a series of stories related to the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Methodist leader Francis Asbury in the United States. (RNS) — It was 250 years ago this month that Francis Asbury, ...

There is civil strife going on within the Methodist church around the United States, and while members fight it out in disaffiliation battles centered around sexuality and power within the church, one ...

Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...

There are people in the pews, dollars in the collection plates, and 65 million Americans who claim to be Protestants. But the outwardly prosperous Christian churches are beset with inner anxiety.

Where is Methodism going? The writer does not really know where Methodism is bound. Like the mythical bird that flies backward, he only knows where he has been. One might say that Methodism is going ...

The Rev. Bonnie McCubbin’s first task in her new job as archivist for the local branch of a major denomination was far from soul-stirring. It was to sort through thousands of files assigned to her ...

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 ...