A quarter of Methodist congregations in the U.S. are leaving the United Methodist Church as one of the country's largest Protestant denominations wrestles with issues of sexuality and gender identity.

The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S. Within these theologically moderate-to-progressive ...

This year the United Methodist Church is celebrating the 70th year since the mainline Protestant denomination approved ordination for women as ministers in 1956. Over the past decade, many women who ...

Racial and ethnic composition among adults who read scripture at least once a week who are methodist Family (Historically Black Protestant Trad.) % of adults who read scripture at least once a week ...

(RNS) — Nearly four years ago, the United Methodist Church approved an exit plan for churches wishing to break away from the global denomination over differing beliefs about sexuality, setting in ...

Importance of religion in one's life among methodists in the Historically Black Protestant Tradition by frequency of reading scripture % of methodists in the Historically Black Protestant Tradition ...