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September 14, 2022 Pastors can often find themselves in uncomfortable and even dangerous situations when trying to minister to others, but they can take steps to ensure their safety. The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler explores the risks that pastors – particularly clergywomen – face in
September 1, 2022 United Methodists will need to both pray and act to end the scourge of gun violence, says a letter the Council of Bishops released Sept. 1 to the wider church. “As people of prayer, we followers of Jesus are called to be
September 1, 2022 “Thou shall not kill.” – Exodus 20:13 We are called as United Methodist Bishops to respond to the devastation and disruption due to gun violence. Communities around the world are traumatized, we are facing a global and national health crisis, and children,
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
August 1, 2022 A 281-page ruling last Friday in the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) bankruptcy proceedings indicates that most of the reorganization plan meets the criteria of bankruptcy law and is constitutional. The ruling approves the United Methodist portion of the settlement, but there
The timeframe to submit grant applications to The General Board of Church and Society is August 1, 2022 to September 16, 2022 via our new online application system opening on our website (Grants page) August 1, 2022. Funding is provided through three grant programs Ethnic Local Church
June 3, 2022 We #WearOrange because God calls on Christians to end gun violence. Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day to remember survivors and victims of gun violence. As part of a national campaign #Wear Orange people are advocating for legislation to end gun
May 25, 2022 Nineteen elementary-school aged children and two adults were murdered in Uvalde, Texas yesterday, while in school for their last classes before summer vacation. I write this in tears as I witness another tragic mass shooting. Over and over, it’s just as devastating,
United Methodists are stepping up to provide support and prayer after a horrific shooting at a Texas elementary school that took the lives of at least 19 children and two teachers. Even as they pray for grieving families and a traumatized community, many in the
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
