During Annual Conference on Saturday, June 19 (10 am – 11 am PDT; 7 am – 8 am HST), members of the General and Jurisdictional Delegation and other Annual Conference leadership will once again host discussion groups to enable an interactive engagement with an important Theological framing of how we
“Expanding the Table,” a new video podcast series from the General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR), will debut on Tues., June 1, 2021. Series guests will focus on how individual Christians and church-based entities can and should engage the work of racial justice-making and
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and The General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR) has developed two infographics to help us learn more. INFOGRAPHIC—10 Things to Know about Asian Americans INFOGRAPHIC—10 Honorable Traits of Pacific Islander Culture The downloadable infographics, available
On March 27, the West District of the California-Pacific Conference, in partnership with the Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles and Japan Foundation Los Angeles, co-sponsored an online onigiri workshop in an effort to begin building bridges between shared aspects of Black American and
Contact: Mindy WrightJan. 27, 2021 SAN DIEGO, CA — First United Methodist Church of San Diego, in partnership with St. Paul United Methodist Church, San Diego, today announced they have jointly awarded $52,500 in Racial Justice Grant funding to ten local nonprofits that either engage
Angered and deeply troubled by the killings of unarmed black individuals, the Asian American Language Ministry Plan, the New Federation of Asian American United Methodists and the General Board of Church and Society launched a six part webinar series this past summer called “Raise Up
By Jim PattersonOct. 28, 2020 | UM News Real progress on racial issues in The United Methodist Church is impossible unless LGBTQ people are accepted as full participants in every aspect of the denomination, said both panelists during a sometimes emotional online discussion. “You can’t
Originally published on gcorr.org I don’t know all the details or all the truth about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. What I do know is that we are all accountable for his death and accountable to the African American young
The following, written by Rev. Paige Eaves of University United Methodist Church (Irvine, CA) on May 1, 2014, is recommended reading for Cal-Pac from Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño. “Watch, the black man will die,” says Forrest as he passes by the movie I’m watching. He doesn’t