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January 25, 2023 United Methodists are reeling after multiple mass shootings over the past few days took more than 20 lives, left dozens injured and sewed heartbreak across the U.S. Churchgoers are responding with prayer, comfort for the grieving and renewed calls for advocacy against
On Saturday, January 21, 2023, a mass shooting occurred just a few blocks away from one of our churches: Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church of Monterey Park. Tuesday evening, Rev. John Yoon, the senior pastor of the church, along with church laity and
December 5, 2022 Jacques Brown was waiting at McKendree United Methodist Church in downtown Nashville, but not for a church service. “I’m here to get help with some clothes and stuff,” Brown said. “I’m homeless right now, so I’m trying to get all the help
We come with hearts broken, yet again, by another senseless act of violence perpetrated against the LGBTQIA+ community, this time at Club Q in Colorado Springs on the eve of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Because we believe that God’s heart is broken when any
November 1, 2022 What began as a small way for Booneville United Methodist Church to reach out to the community has blossomed into an annual event attracting hundreds. Booneville, Iowa, is a small rural town west of Des Moines, but as that city’s suburbs have
October 26, 2022 The Rev. Telley Lynnette Gadson has spent most of her life battling obesity and shame. As Gadson puts it, even when she was a little girl, she wasn’t a “little” girl. “I was teased, taunted, laughed at,” Gadson said, from the boy
October 13, 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
October 13, 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
October 7, 2022 Terrence Ryans and the Rev. Kimberlynn Alexander met the Rev. Neelley Hicks at an extreme time of trauma for both of them. It was at the visitation for the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, a United Methodist district superintendent who was killed in an apparent carjacking outside
Tune-in Tuesday, October 4, 2022 on Church and Society’s YouTube Page and Facebook Live. The broadcast begins at 1:00 p.m. EDT (10:00 a.m. PDT; 7:00 a.m. HST). September 17, 2022 Mental illness is a condition that burdens millions of people throughout the world. Between the
