A mainline Protestant denomination ... In 2012, the denomination had about 700,000 more members than today, and about 1,400 more congregations, many of which have left for more conservative ...

vowing to “take the ship” of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and steer it farther to the right on issues like sexuality and race. They were determined to halt what they saw as ...

Hundreds of congregations of the United Methodist Church voted to leave the denomination Saturday, and remaining congregations have just six weeks left to ... of the largest Protestant churches ...

6,182 congregations of United Methodists voted to leave the church which composes the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States. This year alone, 4,172 congregations left ...