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The official day set to celebrate Peace with Justice Sunday 2022 is June 12, 2022. All are encouraged to celebrate this Sunday on any Sunday throughout the year. United Methodists relate to this special Sunday by seeking peaceful solutions, creating and supporting peace-related ministries in their
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
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 12, 2022 In the first in-person annual gathering of the Association of Korean Churches in The United Methodist Church, several panelists questioned whether the church’s membership decline could be attributed to a lack of spiritual renewal and its long-standing conflict over homosexuality. The meeting
2022년 5월 9일 5월이 아시안태평양계유산의달(Asian American and Pacific Islander(AAPI) Heritage Month)로 자리매김하게 되기까지는 많은 시간과 법적 절차 그리고 지니 쥬(Jeanie Jew)라는 중국계 여성의 열정이 있었기 때문이다. 1992년, 이 법이 만장일치로 의회를 통과하기 이전에 이미 1968년 9월 15일부터 10월 15일까지를 히스패닉계 이민자들의 공헌을 기념하고 기억하는 기간으로
May 6, 2022 Amid tragic stories of racism and poetic speeches on the strength and relevance of the Black church, members of The United Methodist Church’s official Black caucus were encouraged to look out for their best interests as The United Methodist Church moves toward
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
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
