Churches called to address and advocate for Missing and Murdered Native American Girls and Women Bishop LaTrelle Easterling and the Baltimore- Washington Conference Committee on Native American Ministries are calling on United Methodists to support legislation that will solve the thousands of...
By Melissa Lauber To ensure their safety and protect the identities of those involved, some names in this story have been changed. “Sometimes there are no more tears to cry,” said Evelyn, a pastor in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. Evelyn has been journeying beside...
By Erik Alsgaard A new adult Lenten study, “Reclaiming and Living Covenant,” published by the Baltimore-Washington Conference, is a deep dive into biblical covenant and hope, and reconnecting relationships. That’s according to its two authors, who say the study is designed to...
Call to prayer and witness Churches called to illuminate buildings this week to support fairness and democracy As Congress prepares to certify the results of the U.S. presidential election on Jan. 6, as part of an election season unlike any other in recent memory, United...
PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE REV. DR. IANTHER MILLSSENIOR PASTOR, ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 13, 2020 Since 1836, Asbury United Methodist Church has stood at the corner of 11th & K Streets NW, in Washington, D.C. We are a resilient people who have trusted...
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...
Monday, September 21, 2020 The Word of God states in Psalm 24 that the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it -- the world and its inhabitants too. God is the one who established it. Although humanity has created borders and the constructs of human identity, we are...
by Erik Alsgaard In the early morning of Thursday, Sept. 10, Binsar Siahaan met with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Glenmont UMC in Silver Spring, Maryland, because his ankle monitor was not working properly. Or so he was told. Siahaan, who arrived in the United States with...
By Erik Alsgaard The history of American Christianity is so intertwined with white supremacy that most people don’t know it exists, even if they benefit from it every day. It’s like water to a fish. This fact was at the heart of a webinar Sept. 17, presented by Wesley...
