Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Methodist denomination's recent announcement of its official launch as a more conservative alternative to the United ...

The conservative Presbyterian Church in America denomination, which was founded at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham in 1973 partly in opposition to the ordination of women, stuck with its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nation's largest group of Black Protestants is meeting this week for a high-stakes gathering that could thrust the ...

Southern Baptist delegates have gathered in Orlando, Florida, for their annual meeting and they're expected to vote on a constitutional amendment to formally ban churches with women pastors.

The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the United ...

Black churches are among the oldest and most influential institutions dedicated to supporting Black Americans. When they were first founded, denominations like the African Methodist Episcopal Church ...

The Handbook of Denominations has long been a standard reference work for religious professionals. For those of us addicted to the blooming, buzzing confusion of American religion it is more than a ...

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Nondenominational identity has doubled in the US since 2000, Gallup finds. Ask an American Christian what type of church they belong to, and you’re more likely than ever to hear the label ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Matthew Wilson, Associate Professor of political science at Southern Methodist University about the divide in United Methodist Church over sexuality and gender identity.