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Aside from outstanding questions about churches outside the U.S., this latest decision cements the ongoing trajectories for the UMC and its more conservative counterpart, the Global Methodist Church.
The United Methodist Church Split, Explained. ... January 2, 2024 at 2:43 AM. The United Methodist Church (UMC) ... The cascade of churches voting to leave the UMC centers on one policy: the ...
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 ...
In May 2022, the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church ruled that none of the 51 annual conferences in the United States can leave the church for the GMC and that only individual churches can do so. However, the ruling does not apply to conferences outside the United States.
On January 3, 2020, a group of Methodist leaders proposed a plan to split the United Methodist Church over issues of sexual orientation (particularly same-sex marriage) and create a new traditionalist Methodist denomination; [16] [17] [18] the Global Methodist Church was formed in 2022. [19]
5,505 disaffiliations, 17 legal battles and new alternative Methodist groups. Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United Methodist Church's splintering.
United Methodist Church administrative staff members Caitlin Congdon, left, Sandeep Kuntam, and Sharah Dass at the Upper Room Chapel Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
The number of churches leaving the United Methodist Church is mounting. ... (8.1%) and South Central (14.1%), particularly Texas, where 525 churches have disaffiliated, ...