By Donna Claycomb -Sokol* I allowed my Twitter feed to pour into my day like hot coffee following a sleepless night throughout the Rev. Frank Schaefer’s trial. I watched anger, heartache and hopefulness being expressed through 140-character tweets. I also fed the fire by questioning how...
By Jim Richards* “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace...
Children and ukuleles, who can beat that? OLNEY –Oakdale Emory UMC is expanding with building and launching of two new campuses. One of those is The Solana Olney, an assisted living facility. Oakdale volunteers staff the weekly services at the facility, attended by residents and...
By Linda Worthington UMConnection Staff More than 90 older adults gathered at West River campground near Annapolis Oct. 23 to learn, participate in Bible Study, and share their life stories. Although our life stories are all different, said Bishop Marcus Matthews in the keynote address, they...
By Roy White* Two events in Kenya this past summer played a key role in Deaf United Methodist community: our Kenya Deaf Mission trip, and the 3rd Global Methodist Missions Conference of the Deaf. To prepare for our mission, Dan Kenyon, Carrie White and I attended five planning...
By Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff If pastors want to minister well, they must not minister alone. Draw the circles wider, they were told by the Rev. Marvin McMickle at the Bishop’s Advent Day Apart for Clergy on Dec. 5. These wider circles are not just a good idea, they could change...
By Melisssa Lauber UMConnection Staff Celebrating Communion Nov. 17, Bishop Marcus Matthewsraised the simple, historic silver chalice of Bishop William Otterbein. It was an act of remembrance and a reclaiming of the history of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, who shaped today’s...
By Sam Hodges United Methodist News Service Many, if not most, sermons fade from memory by Sunday lunch, but people in Dallas still talk about one the Rev. William Holmes gave there 50 years ago, just after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. While he didn’t blame Dallas...
By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff The Rev. Frank Schaefer, the United Methodist pastor found guilty Nov. 18 of disobeying church teaching on same-gender unions, has until Dec. 19 to decide if he is able to uphold The United Methodist Church’s Book of Discipline “in its...
Shirley Jean Brown, 65, the wife of Ronald Brown, a part-time local pastor, died June 22, 2013, in a nursing home in Prince Frederick. Private services were held. She wasborn March 26, 1948, in Charleroi, Pa., to the late Robert and Delores Nutt. She moved to Calvert County in 1978 with her...
