disaffiliate

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Some are proposing that African and other churches be given the same chance that U.S. churches recently had to disaffiliate under favorable terms.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024

Most of its bishops favor staying, but other voices are calling for regional conferences to disaffiliate.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

A chart from the church’s UM News service shows a total of 4,359 congregations have been approved to disaffiliate, approximately 14% of the denomination’s 30,543 U.S. congregations reported in 2019.

From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2023

Last month, 38 churches in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church sued in the state’s Superior Court, demanding they be allowed to disaffiliate from the denomination.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

USC strongly criticized the move to disaffiliate and invite first-year students to rush, saying in a statement that such fall recruitment “has been repeatedly shown to be unsafe for new students.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2022