A Florida county judge has ruled against a group of congregations suing their regional body of the United Methodist Church over the payments they are required to make to proceed with disaffiliating from the denomination.
[Religion News Service] It was the thing that was supposed to save the United Methodist Church. The Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separati
(RNS) Before United Methodists could vote on the widely endorsed plan, traditionalists went ahead and launched a new denomination and several representatives of centrist and progressive groups revoked their support.
Leaders in the United Methodist Church explained the deeper reasons behind the widening gulf within the third-largest Protestant denomination in the United States.