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June 1, 2022 The United Methodist Church’s top court has set Jan. 1, 2023, as the date when U.S. bishops facing mandatory retirement must step down and their newly elected successors take office. That means new bishops will be able to begin their assignments in
(편집자 주 :이글에서 아시아 /태평양계 미국인이란 미국의 시민권을 가진 아시아/태평양계 사람들을 포함한 미국에 사는 모든 아시아/태평양계 사람들을 의미합니다.) 연합감리교회의 사회생활 원칙(Social Principles of the United Methodist Church)은 인종주의를 이렇게 정의합니다. “인종주의란 하나의 인종이 다른 인종들을 지배하는 힘에 더하여, 지배하는 인종이 다른 인종들보다 원래 우월하다는 가치관을 결합한 것이다.” (연합감리교회 장정 ¶162.A.) 세례식에서 연합감리교인들은 “모든 형태의 악과 불의 그리고 억압에 저항”할 것을 고백하고
May 24, 2022 A United Methodist women’s training center, theological college and district motorcycle project have revved up their offerings thanks to a collaboration between UMC Ministries and Harper Hill Global. UMC Ministries is a growing, volunteer-based organization that works alongside the Uganda-South Sudan Conference, and Harper Hill Global is a Nashville,
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
May 20, 2022 The United Methodist Council of Bishops has the authority to call jurisdictional conferences this year to elect and assign new episcopal leaders in the U.S. However, that authority does not extend to changing the Sept. 1 date when church law says newly
May 18, 2022 The Rev. Giovanni Arroyo poses a difficult question to white United Methodists who say they want an end to racism. Do you want racial justice enough to voluntarily relinquish some of your power? Even those who say “yes” to this tend to
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Ask The UMC remembers two pioneering Koreans in Methodist history. Esther Kim Pak (1876-1910) — First Korean Methodist Female Doctor Esther Kim was born into a poor family in Seoul in 1876. At the time, education
The United Methodist Board of Global Ministries approved more than $13 million in grants and disbursements during its May 11-12 spring virtual meeting, including $3.5 million to help realize a late bishop’s dream of making The United Methodist Church in Africa self-sufficient through agriculture. More
May 9, 2022 “We affirm that the right to communicate and to access information is a basic human right, essential to human dignity and to a just and democratic society….Global communications justice…is about communication that is just and participatory, equitable and sustainable.” (#8016, 2016 United
