The leadership and staff of the Baltimore-Washington Conference are taking a deep dive on implicit bias, a journey they are modeling in hopes that other congregations will come along, too. The training, led by Dushaw Hockett, began last month as more than 60 participants gathered via...
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...
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...
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...
(Bishop Cynthia Fierro-Harvey, president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, has endorsed this statement from Bishop Easterling.) January 6, 2021 In...
By Erik Alsgaard After demonstrators tore down a Black Lives Matter banner from the front of Asbury UMC last weekend and then burned it in the street, more than 400 clergy, laity, and faith leaders gathered on the front steps of the church, and virtually, to put up a new one. In a Service...
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...
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...
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...
