disaffiliate
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Most of its bishops favor staying, but other voices are calling for regional conferences to disaffiliate.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
Some 6,182 congregations have received approval to disaffiliate since 2019, according to an unofficial tally by United Methodist News Service, which has been tracking votes by annual conferences.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
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
Sorority leaders were evaluating the decision by fraternities to disaffiliate, said Valeria Hernandez Echegaray, vice president of public relations for the USC Panhellenic Council, which represents nearly a dozen campus sorority chapters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
Regular Catholic Mass attendance is reportedly near 6%, and hundreds of thousands have formally disaffiliated from the church in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The BBC has seen documents that show the Green Party disaffiliated the GPW for failing to run its planned Autumn 2021 committee election until January 2022.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023
SPU could be one, she said, even if it disaffiliated from the Free Methodist Church.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
They instead tap into how disaffiliated Americans are becoming from organized religion.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2022
“Sadly, I have watched YouTube videos, many from annual conference leaders that start with something like, ‘I’m here to help you understand the process for disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church,’” she said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
One outcome is that many people are disaffiliating from their churches, their belief systems, and their communities.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
Many churches began disaffiliating under a temporary measure approved in 2019 that let churches keep their properties under favorable conditions.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
Those crises set off a domino of CrossFit gyms’ disaffiliating from the brand—and the company, under new leadership and ownership, now faces the challenge of charting its future.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
“I want to say unequivocally that no, we are not disaffiliating to dodge these social event policies that were put into place,” said Murphy, a senior majoring in political science and history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
The reasons that more young Americans are disaffiliating in the world’s most religious developed country are varied.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
