The United Methodist Church is one of the few places in American life where people as different as Hillary Clinton and Jeff Sessions can share the same pew. If a proposed schism is approved, that ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Reverend Ginger Gaines-Cirelli of Foundry United Methodist Church about the proposed split of the church over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy. We're going to ...

Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Leaders of Methodist colleges welcomed a recent proposal to split ... Church as a fully inclusive institution and thus one that Ohio Wesleyan ...

Liberal and conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church had agreed to split the denomination ... been “stunned” last year when they proposed two liberalizing marriage plans to ...

The United Methodist Church has proposed a schism within the denomination ... This has been a deeply divisive issue within the church and talk of a split appears to be coming to a head.

The United Methodist Church has proposed to split in order to resolve an impasse between two factions within the church that have not been able to agree on gay marriage and clergy. If passed ...

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 ...

Struggling to avoid a split over gay rights ... On Wednesday, Ough proposed the commission to review church policy, contained in the Methodist Book of Discipline.

BIANCA: CLERGY OF THE UNITED METHODIST ... WORLDWIDE CHURCH LEADERSHIP VOTED FOR MANDATORY PENALTIES THAT WOULD SUSPEND AND DEFROCK CLERGY WHO DO SO ANYWAY. ISSUE ARE AGREEING TO SPLIT THE CHURCH ...

The United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant denomination in the US, announced Friday a proposal to split after years of dispute over LGBTQ issues and marriage equality. Church ...

The Methodist Church ... If the proposed schism is approved, that likely won’t be true anymore. In recent decades four of the seven traditional mainline Protestant denominations have split ...