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The Global Methodist Church, a breakaway denomination, gathered for its inaugural legislative assembly in September. That event reflected how a traditionalist insurgency within the UMC has since ...
Yet over the following decades, the denomination—like many others in America—dwindled. Then, between 2019 and 2023, the church split , largely due to disputes over its teachings on gender and ...
Amid the decline of nearly all U.S. Protestant denominations, both liberal and conservative, the new Global Methodist Church (GMC) has emerged and last week convened its first governing general ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...
The Liberation Methodist Connexion (shortened to LMX) is an aspiring Protestant denomination based in the United States drawing from Methodism and liberation theology. Formed in 2020 as a progressive offshoot of the United Methodist Church , the LMX includes Methodists and non-Methodists alike and encourages continued collaboration with the UMC.
During the American Civil War, the southern denomination was known briefly as The Methodist Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. Its book of liturgy used for the reunited denomination was The Book of Worship for Church and Home , editions of which were published in 1945 and later revised in 1965.
It has grown steadily since, becoming autonomous in 1930. In the 1970s it ordained its first woman minister. In 1975 it also founded the first Methodist university in Latin America, the Methodist University of Piracicaba. [261] As of 2011, the Brazilian Methodist Church is divided into eight annual conferences with 162,000 members. [262]
The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of the total, decided whether to leave the denomination or remain ...