When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. The Lord is near the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. --- Psalm 34:17-18 Beloved: As the nation absorbs the guilty verdicts delivered in the case of former...
March 25, 2021 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory for the Lord has risen upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you. Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the...
April 2, 2021 | "Hallelujah anyhow!" As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe sitting to the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been...
By Erik Alsgaard* The Rev. Junius B. Dotson, the top executive of Discipleship Ministries, died Feb. 24 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 55. A memorial service will be conducted on Saturday, March 6, 2021, starting at 12 noon EST. It will be available online...
Beloved of God, as we prepare to enter this deep and rich time of Lent -- a time of prayer, remembering our baptism, and preparing others for theirs -- we look back over almost a year of global pandemic, racial and political unrest, and almost a year of social distancing, tremendous loss, and...
(Bishop Cynthia Fierro-Harvey, president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, has endorsed this statement from Bishop Easterling.) January 6, 2021 In...
On Dec.18, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, spoke at a service of prayer and solidarity at Asbury UMC in Washington, D.C., where vandals recently tore down and burned a Black Lives Matter banner. Bishop Easterling's remarks at Asbury UMC We...
Beloved: Mary probably didn't hear the choir of angels. On that first Christmas night in Bethlehem, it would have been chilly, there would have been pain mixed with tears after giving birth, alone in a strange place, as a teenage girl with a man she barely knew, separated from all...
December 14, 2020 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic...
There continues to be deep sadness and grief within the Baltimore-Washington Conference as we learned of the passing of the Rev. Dr. William Bobby McClain. Rev. Dr. McClain touched numerous lives and his passing reverberates across the conference, the denomination, and the entire Christian...
