DECATUR — Residents traveling south on Main Street in Decatur on Tuesday may have noticed crews removing the flame portion of a giant cross towering over Grace United Methodist Church.

More than half of the United Methodist churches across Alabama have disaffiliated from the denomination, and the signs are becoming obvious – churches are literally changing their signs ...

FREELAND — As you enter the United Methodist Church in Freeland, you see a brass and copper cross and flame to the right of the doors. In the lobby, two elegant, bronze sculptures of hands ...

A top official of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has told the United Methodist Church that Klan members used its cross and flame logo without KKK sanction. The official said he will ...

MIDLAND — The cross-and-flame symbol on Methodist Hospital will come down, and a symbol representing a new hospital system forged by the merger of Methodist and St. Mary Hospital will take its ...

(RNS) — It’s known in the United Methodist Church as the “Cross and Flame.” But the denomination’s logo — two red flames intertwined with a thin, black cross — means something else ...

The denomination adopted its cross-and-flame symbol in 1968, when the United Methodist Church was created in a merger of the former Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church.

A downtown Modesto landmark, the First United Methodist Church, dedicated its new “cross and flame” signs Sunday. Members of the 16th Street congregation enjoyed a barbecue on the lawn as part ...

It can longer be a United Methodist congregation, and the clause indicates that all symbols like the cross and flame have to be removed, things like that,” Rev Sikes said. “And then just a lot of ...

one without the cross and flame logo of the UMC. Last month, the vote of their church, along with 58 others in Louisiana, to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church was approved, part of a ...