(AP) — The United Methodist Church, which stripped out its bans and related social teachings over the past two weeks, is the last of the major mainline church bodies to go through this process. The ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century's worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. But when asked at a news ...

When the African Methodist Episcopal Church, arguably the world’s largest independent Black Protestant denomination, held its quadrennial General Conference in Ohio in August, among the agenda items ...

Mainline Protestant denominations have been declining for 60 years, and some of these denominations will not exist meaningfully much longer. But will all their congregations recede or die with them?

In the Religious Landscape Study (RLS), we group Protestant respondents into one of three “traditions” – the evangelical tradition, mainline tradition or the historically Black Protestant tradition – ...

When the Episcopal Church recently announced cuts to its national staff, it was the latest in a long-running cycle among historic U.S. Protestant denominations — declines in members leading to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When the Episcopal Church recently announced ...