disaffiliate
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Opponents say overseas churches already can disaffiliate under church rules – and some conferences in Eastern Europe have taken such steps.
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
In the Arkansas Conference, more than 100 churches — out of roughly 600 total — have received permission to disaffiliate.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 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
“However, we have long understood that organizations choose to disaffiliate from universities for a variety of legitimate reasons, because in some cases Panhellenic organizations have done so as well.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
A 2023 study by the Survey Center on American Life found that young women account for 54% of the Gen Z that are religiously disaffiliated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Pastor Scott now leads Dwelling Place Anaheim, a church which recently disaffiliated from the Vineyard USA movement.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023
The Louisville, Kentucky-based denomination said Monday 108 churches disaffiliated, dropping the number of congregations to 8,704, a shedding of 747 churches since 2016.
From Washington Times ● May 3, 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
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
