By Melissa Lauber Amid a storm of uncertainty on the day following national elections, Methodists in D.C. gathered for a vigil of justice and unity and to begin addressing pain caused by deep ideological division. “This great experiment called the United States of America is...
Weekly prayers from the bishop and Cabinet.
Churches throughout the BWC are beginning to reflect upon and take action to learn about and address racism in their congregations’ history and in their communities today. The men at Poolesville UMC are seeking to offer humility, love and healing, to their small community. By Link...
By Melissa Lauber How will God use the people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference to be vessels of peace, vessels of love, vessels of change? This question sparked lively online engagement as Bishop LaTrelle Easterling met in eight sessions Oct. 26-29 with 331 clergy and 603 lay people. The...
The Baltimore-Washington Conference recently received a grant of $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish its new Catalyst Initiative, an effort designed to empower local churches to thrive in mission and ministry as they seek to transform knowledge into life-changing action.
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” -- 2 Chronicles 7:14 The spiritual discipline of fasting has been a...
by Erik Alsgaard More than 60 lay and clergy leaders in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, who make up the Connectional Table, participated in a virtual session Oct. 3, to continue their work of anti-bias training. Noting that this work was “our ministry, not additional...
As the nation celebrates Columbus Day on Oct. 12, now recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in a growing number of states and in Washington, D.C., people of faith remember the people who lived on the land when Columbus and other explorers arrived. The General Conference of The...
By Kirstin Shrom-Rhoads* On Friday, September 25, the energetic and hopeful directors at Manidokan —myself, Rev. Kirstin Shrom-Rhoads, and Steve Lane — were dropped off in the wee early and still dark hours of 5 a.m. in Harpers Ferry, WVa. From there, a town well known...
A Statement of Faith, Hope, and Action, rooted in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, in response to the Breonna Taylor verdict By Rev. Stacey Cole WilsonExecutive Minister of Justice and Service, Baltimore-Washington Conference To the church of God that is in the Baltimore-Washington...
