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With Thanks: Pastor Appreciation Month
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October is Pastor Appreciation Month. Via the e-connection, members of several churches throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference shared words of appreciation for their pastors. Some pastors possess a spirit of generosity that shines in all they do. Jen Karsner of Asbury UMC in Arnold is...

reCall 3.0 explores changing narratives
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  by Erik Alsgaard The church, said the Rev. David Anderson Hooker, is in a unique position to address the issues of privilege, power and poverty. That was the message Oct. 18 and 19 in Baltimore as he spoke at the reCall Summit 3.0. Hooker, who once served as Assistant Attorney General in...

Episcopal candidate nomination process begins
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  This fall begins a season in which Elders in the Baltimore-Washington Conference are asked to discern if they may feel a call to serve as a bishop in The United Methodist Church. At the Northeast Jurisdictional Conference, which will be held July 13-17, 2020, in Hunt Valley, it is...

Postcard 1 - Exploring Immigration
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Nineteen members from the Baltimore-Washington Conference began an immersion experience for a long weekend on Oct. 11 with instructions from the poet Ranier Maria Rilke: “Live the questions and your experience will become the answer.”

Postcard 2 - What Separates Us
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The border wall runs through Friendship Park in San Diego, California. Armed guards watch as families enter the space between two fences. On the other side of the fence, barely visible, is Tijuana, Mexico. The families come on weekends, to steal a few minutes, talking to loved ones through the...