By the Rev. Benjamin Kevin Smalls EDITOR'S NOTE: This viewpoint deals with the topic of suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255) provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones...
When is a newspaper vending machine not a newspaper vending machine? When it’s transformed into a Blessing Box. Nathan Payton, co-director of children’s ministry at Calvary UMC in Martinsburg with his wife, Chelsea, came up with the ministry as a way of meeting the needs of...
If the mission of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world – and it is – then how, exactly, do you do that? The Rev. Quincy Brown, superintendent of the Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford District of the North Georgia Conference, has one possible...
Brent Bayes, Marketing and Sales Director at Asbury Methodist Village, left, and the Rev. Malcolm Frazier, Director of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Asbury, share a vast array of activities at the cite, founded in 1926. "Anticipate more” is the slogan of Asbury Methodist Village in...
In the Baltimore-Washington Conference, new ministries aren’t just thinking outside the box; they’re building new boxes. Erik Alsgaard looks at 'Coop's Soups.'
In a call to the church to resist the current politics of fear and hate, the Rev. David McAllister-Wilson, president of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, said that “the essence of leadership is either to invoke the ‘better angels’ of our nature or let loose the ‘killer angels’.”
The Baltimore-Washington Conference recently closed on a new house that will serve as its episcopal residence. The purchase comes after mold and a variety of other issues were discovered last spring in the previous parsonage in Clarksville, which was home to Bishop LaTrelle Easterling and her...
During its called Special Session last February, the denomination's General Conference voted to grant United Methodist congregations a time-limited opportunity to withdraw or disaffiliate from the denomination for reasons of conscience based on decisions made during the Conference concerning...
In Russia, Christianity can translate a little differently. The Rev. Elena Melnikova has a unique ministry that allows her to unlock cultural differences and serve as a bridge between United Methodists in Russia and the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
“There’s a war going on for the souls of our young people,” said Brendon Scott, Baltimore City Council president. It’s uncertain whether “the side of evil or of righteousness” will prevail. But the new Agape Center at John Wesley UMC will make a difference.
