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Area churches divorce United Methodist Church

| Ken Garner
The United Methodist Church is navigating a historic schism, a division into two groups caused by a disagreement about ideas. On May 7, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the UMC approved final “disaffiliation” of 193 congregations, bringing the number of defections to 240 since 2021.

 

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