By Melissa Lauber As The United Methodist Church emerges from the pandemic and faces a season of potential disaffiliations, the Baltimore-Washington Conference is positioning itself for strength and vitality as its leaders prioritize mission and ministry. A part of their leveraging for strength...
By Melissa Lauber In January, Governor Wes Moore was sworn in as the first Black governor of Maryland and became the third Black governor in the United States. In February, he preached at Fowler United Methodist Church in Annapolis, a small African-American church founded in 1871. Speaking from...
Beloved of God: As The United Methodist Church, we are a people who span multiple continents across the world. Even as we claim a singular rootedness in our Wesleyan theology, we experience and express that theology and our faith in diverse ways. Yet there...
To the Pastors and Laity of the Baltimore-Washington Conference: Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. The Special Session of General Conference held in 2019 created a path for churches to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church. That path is codified in...
By Melissa Lauber A mother, who is a doctor, wanted her young daughter to see the Black History Month art exhibit at Asbury UMC in Washington, D.C. But her daughter was immunocompromised, and attending an event where a lot of people might be present might have put her health at risk. Carol...
On Feb. 7, Wesley Theological Seminary hosted its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. The featured speaker was the Rev. Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta and a leader in the...
The MidAtlantic United Methodist Foundation offers an Advance Financial Academy to churches in the Baltimore-Washington, Peninsula-Delaware and Eastern Pennsylvania Conferences. Recently, the 19-member Class of 2022 began implementing projects they created as a result of their training with the...
By Melissa Lauber At American University in Washington, D.C. students are beginning “to tell a new story” about race and justice. Their witness, being lived out at Kay Spiritual Life Center on campus, took on an added poignance on Feb. 1, the day of the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who...
By Rev. Antoine LoveChairperson, Black Methodists for Church Renewal “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’” On Feb. 1, in Memphis, Tenn., at the...
By Bishop LaTrelle Easterling In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and Black History Month, Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling, episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula Delaware Conferences, preached the following sermon on Feb. 1, 2023 at...
