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August 25, 2022 Editor’s Note: In late May, a team from United Methodist News, the United Methodist Committee on Relief and the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries visited church refugee ministries in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and western Ukraine to share stories of the
August 17, 2022 While Russians and Ukrainians engage in war in various parts of Ukraine, a Russian-speaking United Methodist congregation in Prague is finding ways to support Ukrainian refugees. Prague 2 United Methodist Church is a collective of two congregations: Nové Město (New Life), which
August 5, 2022 Days after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, United Methodists in the Arkansas Annual Conference had a message for their elected leaders. Do more than offer thoughts and prayers. “Now, therefore be it resolved, the Arkansas Annual
July 22, 2022 Oksana’s hands shake as she scrolls through her phone, looking for the photo. It’s an image familiar to the world by now: the ruined facade of a bombed building. This particular building is in Kharkiv. She points to an empty space a
One of the most difficult pastor care situations I faced as a local church pastor occurred in my second appointment. I had a good 15 years of pastoral experience under my belt; and completed all of my Ph.D. classes in theological and social ethics, so
Your General Conference and Jurisdictional delegates want to be as transparent as possible to the annual conference concerning actions that we are taking as your elected representatives. We have heard and value the Annual Conference’s clear endorsement of 3 nominees from California-Pacific Conference to be
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
This past weekend brought me to my knees, yet again, as shots rang out in Buffalo, New York, and Laguna Woods, California. In both cases, the lone gunman took the lives of others because of hate for the victim’s racial and ethnic identities. None of
May 6, 2022 In addition to ongoing collection of donated items, individuals and local churches have readied spaces to house refugees for either short- or long-term recovery.
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
