By Kenneth Clark The COVID-19 pandemic has rocked the entire world like nothing seen since the Great Spanish Influenza Pandemic 100 years ago. Millions of lives have been lost to the virus with over 800,000 deaths in the United States. Medical scientists and professionals have raced...
By Neal Christie The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be observed this year Jan. 18-25. This annual observance, started in 1968, invites all Christians everywhere to remember one another in prayer and strengthen the bonds of love and mutual mission we share in Jesus...
By Melissa Lauber A key ingredient to ensuring that all the pastors of the Baltimore-Washington Conference are able to flourish in ministry, is knowing their stories and the systemic challenges they face because of gender and race. A new conference-wide survey, to be released Jan...
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By Patricia Allen Kicking off a Stewardship Campaign in the midst of a pandemic is either a demonstration of faith or one of the more regrettable decisions a pastor can make. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Kensington saw it as a demonstration of faith. An energized Stewardship...
After prayer and consultation with the Cabinet, Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling has made the following appointments. Unless otherwise noted, all appointments on this page take effect on July 1, 2022. Posted July 11 Pastor Mark Claiborne, Sr., to Lewistown UMC in Lewistown, from associate...
From United Methodist Communications United Methodist leaders have reached a settlement in the matter of the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) pending bankruptcy proceedings. Upon final court approval, the settlement would resolve any claims of sexual abuse that may have occurred in...
By Melissa Lauber Over the past several months, God has been showing up at Journey UMC in Temple Hills “in all kinds of unexpected ways,” said the Rev. Michael Parker. On Dec. 18, Parker stood on the front lawn of a former parsonage and consecrated it to become home for a family in...
By Neal Christie The disparity between how we feel and how we ought to feel, leads to confusion where we were shaped by memories of holidays marked by endings: fractured relationships and unresolved conflicts, family and friends who have passed on, situations where we did not feel safe or...
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree” – that all 81 Methodist preachers should ride to Baltimore for a Christmas Conference. . . The year was 1784, when the Rev. Thomas Coke met with Francis Asbury at Barratt’s Chapel near Dover, Del., to...
