United Methodist Bishop Mark J. Webb, the former leader of the UM Church’s Upper New York Episcopal Area, has resigned from the episcopacy and withdrawn from the denomination. Webb has joined the Global Methodist Church.  Read more…

By the end of this year (2022), about 2,000 local churches will have disaffiliated from The United Methodist Church. Hundreds more will do so next year. The vast majority will align with another Methodist denomination. But which one?”  Read more…

“…we have had to change our intention to provide a process for any disaffiliations between January 1, 2024 and General Conference… all disaffiliations will be under Paragraph 2553, and must be totally completed by December 31, 2023. There will be no disaffiliations processed between January 1, 2024, and General Conference.”  Read more…

Two regional conferences, based out of Lubbock and Houston, approved the departures, which will go into effect at the end of December.  Read more…

Hundreds of United Methodist Church congregations have left the mainline denomination over issues centered around biblical teaching on gender and sexuality.  Read more…

As the number of church disaffiliations rises, United Methodist financial leaders have started preparing what will be the denomination’s lowest budget sent to General Conference in nearly 40 years.  Read more…

The United Methodist Church now has the most liberal Council of Bishops in its history. Not one single traditionalist bishop was elected. Not one.  Read more…

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is accelerating its moves to become more accepting of LGBTQ people, leading to more divisions within the denomination and more departures from the group.  Read more…

Lately, there has been a rash of heavy-handed, extraordinarily hypocritical demands by liberal United Methodist leaders for loyalty to the present leadership and structures of United Methodism.  Read more…

Southeastern District, which includes Virginia, elects Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson, effective Jan. 1, 2023.  Read more…

The Rev. Cedrick D. Bridgeforth, director of innovation and communication in the California-Pacific Conference, has been elected a bishop by The United Methodist Church’s Western Jurisdiction. He becomes the first openly gay African-American man to be elected a bishop in The United Methodist Church.  Read more…

Leaders of the United Methodist Church, gathered in five locations across the country this week for jurisdictional conferences to elect new bishops to steer America’s second-largest Protestant denomination in a dramatically liberal new direction.  Read more…

With episcopal elections finished, delegates to the 2022 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference turned their attention to three resolutions, ultimately passing all of them Thursday night, even amid much debate and a peaceful protest on the floor.  Read more…

“In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions” (Jude 1:18) ESV. The rise of drag queens in public life is a defiant attempt to queer our children and the church of Jesus Christ.  Read more…

The United Methodist Virginia Annual Conference approved the exit of 10 traditional churches from the liberalizing denomination on Saturday, October 29, while 125 more plan to leave. Presumably many more will join that number before next year’s deadline.  Read more…

United Methodist exits are accelerating, as at least 260 of 779 churches in the North Carolina Conference, or one third, have voted to disaffiliate or plan to next year, according to The Carolina Journal.  Read more…

In Florida, 106 churches are suing the United Methodist Church (UMC) because it charged them large amounts of money to leave, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Some congregations must pay more than $1 million, while others must pay less than $100,000, Bailie said. But in previous decades, leaving the UMC was free.  Read more…

The Latest United Methodist Bombshell Will Create News Throughout 2022 And Beyond  Read more…

The United Methodist Church’s future won’t be decided officially until 2024, thanks to a third postponement of its church-wide legislative assembly, but traditionalists have chosen not to wait any longer, formally starting their breakaway denomination May 1.  Read more…

Within the Virginia Conference emerged “Virginia Methodists for a New Thing”… which put forth a slate of 62 candidates who oppose the Traditional Plan for delegate election at 2019 Virginia Annual Conference.  Read more…

76 percent of U.S. annual conferences passed legislation rejecting the Traditional Plan adopted by the 2019 General Conference.  Read more…