More than 100 churches are suing the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church to immediately disaffiliate from the denomination.
Because of COVID-related delays to the General Conference meeting, four years will have passed by the time delegates finally can vote on the plan they negotiated.
A local paper's story about one small, dying Methodist church's plans to "relaunch" itself has caused a ruckus, spawning headlines and debates about a religious generational divide across the country.