All rights reserved. California-Pacific Conference, 2024.
August 22, 2022 Beneath a gorgeous sunset, 50 or so people contemplated a display of empty red dresses and a board gently floating in Lake Benson. Candles burned inside glasses on the board. The dresses and candles symbolized missing indigenous women. The National Crime Information Center reports
July 26, 2022 The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Church World Service (CWS) today launched a new joint menstrual hygiene kit initiative to provide essential health and dignity products to vulnerable communities across the U.S. The kits will be purchased and assembled by
August 10, 2022 A group of people of different ages huddles together in the front yard, some holding hymnbooks and Bibles that appear to be new. They are directed to the page containing the Apostles’ Creed and read together with the Rev. Susan Manyange of
July 29, 2022 In a state checkered by rival yard signs, a United Methodist megachurch held a forum on faith and abortion seeking to find common ground. The July 27 town hall before a packed house at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in
June 19, 2022 On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday. It marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two
May 23, 2022 Denied a high school education because she was a girl, Greater Taremeredzwa Nhiwatiwa spent her teen years scaring baboons out of her family’s maize fields in rural Maswera Village, northeast of Mutare in Manicaland, Zimbabwe. Later, a guerrilla war forced her to seek
May 24, 2022 More than 3,000 gathered in Orlando, Florida, and online for United Women in Faith’s Assembly 2022, held May 20-22 at the Orange County Convention Center. Twenty-four countries and all 50 states were represented at the event with the theme “Turn It Up!”
May 19, 2022 Kit Evans-Ford, founder of Argrow’s House of Healing and Hope, is one of four diverse, spiritual leaders who will receive a 2022 Tom Locke Innovative Leader Award from the Wesleyan Investive in a virtual ceremony May 22. Argrow’s House, named for Evans-Ford’s grandmother, started in
Church and Society has released “Living our Principles,” a six-part series highlighting how United Methodists are living out the Social Principles throughout the world. “Living Our Principles” illustrates how valuable the United Methodist Social Principles are to our world community. In this series, you will
We are called as a family of God, a redemptive and redeemed community, to be a place of safety and safe haven for all persons. When we as clergywomen became aware of the accusation and guilty plea of former United Methodist pastor John McFarland for
