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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.
May 4, 2022 This is a two-part series highlighting the Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD) Conference that took place April 25 – 27, 2022. Over the course of three days, more than 500 people of faith gathered virtually to learn, pray, worship and advocate for civil and human rights. The EAD virtual conference included two plenaries: […]
May 4, 2022 One of the most celebrated and influential United Methodists is lending his name to an institute at Vanderbilt University that will promote and study nonviolence. The Rev. James Lawson, who has been called the “architect of the civil rights movement,” has given his blessing to the James Lawson Institute for the Research and […]
2022년 4월 27일 연합감리교회 한인교회총회(이하 한교총)의 연차 총회가 2022년 4월 25일부터 28일까지 달라스 중앙 연합감리교회(담임 이성철 목사)에서 진행되고 있다. “내가 친히 가리라”라는 주제로 열린 이 총회에는 등록한 60명의 목회자를 비롯한 130여 명이 참석했다. 한교총 총무인 김일영 목사(체리힐 제일 연합감리교회 담임)의 사회로 시작한 개회예배에서, 기도를 맡은 이창민 목사(나성 한인연합감리교회 담임)는 미가서 6장 8절 “오직 정의를 […]
The Justice and Compassion Grant is awarded to laity, clergy, congregations, and communities who are meaningfully engaged in ministries of justice and compassion locally and globally. The Justice and Compassion Essential Ministries Team (JCEMT) supports a wide variety of new and ongoing programs which are connected to the people of the United Methodist Church (UMC). […]
An eight-question guide to the history of Methodism in Ukraine, how UMCOR is responding and the best ways for you to help now. How is the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) responding? How can I support those still in Ukraine and those fleeing the violence? Will UMCOR be sending kits and other supplies? Can […]
April 25, 2022 DeLaris Johnson Risher doesn’t look, act or talk like a trailblazing, fearless woman — but she is. In 1952, she and Leila Robinson Dabbs, both Black women, quietly integrated Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee, two years before segregation in education was ruled unconstitutional. Dabbs died in 2002; Risher is […]
April 26, 2022 After long wishing that United Methodists could remain together in one body, Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey acknowledged that the time has come when some will break away. “Every part of the body is important to the whole,” Harvey preached April 25 during her final address as the Council of Bishops president. “I […]
The General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR) has created a PDF downloadable resource to assist both clergy and lay preachers to attend faithfully to the biblical text while engaging Intercultural Competency (ICC) as a value and skill set. The resource format is decidedly exegetical. Interpretation of the biblical text happens before intercultural competency ideas, […]
