Global Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church currently feels like a war zone. But the way forward is to “beat our swords into plowshares” (Isaiah 2:4) on the anvil of compassion. Here are three principles that can guide us.

In his first address as president of the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops, Thomas Bickerton called out conservative groups that are encouraging United Methodist churches to join a splinter denomination.

More than 100 churches are suing the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church to immediately disaffiliate from the denomination.

While legislation to enact the Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation still likely will be considered at the next General Conference meeting, wavering support for it leaves United Methodists either imagining a new way forward or plunging into chaos, depending on whom you ask.

No, an annual conference in the United States can’t just up and leave the United Methodist Church. At least not yet.

The 6th annual gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant Association was broadcast live from Indianapolis Saturday (May 7) to dozens of local churches across the country that are considering leaving the United Methodist Church.

A statement posted on Facebook by the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s Florida chapter caught the attention of the Florida bishop for the UMC: “107 Florida Methodist Churches Depart United Methodist Church,” it said.

When the UMC postponed a vote on an orderly plan to split the mainline Protestant denomination long riven by disagreement over LGBTQ inclusion, some conservative United Methodists announced they were finally done.