by Melissa LauberUMConnection Staff “Let us pray.” It’s an invocation used in churches throughout the world. But the Rev. Cynthia Moore-Koikoi is now using these three simple words to transform the city of Baltimore. Moore-Koikoi, superintendent of the...
by Melissa LauberUMConnection Staff Art, Pablo Picasso says, “washes the daily dust of living off of our souls.” It enlivens, provokes, stirs, enrages, soothes and allows the spirit within us to be nudged into new ways of seeing, thinking and being. Art can draw us...
by Kathy L. Gilbert & Erik Alsgaard The Rev. Frank Schaefer had his ministerial credentials reinstated by a United Methodist regional appeals committee June 23, three days after a hearing held near Baltimore. The denomination’s Northeastern Jurisdictional Committee...
by Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff Baltimore-Washington Conference Resident Bishop Marcus Matthews has ruled on two questions of law that were presented at the 2014 Annual Conference. The first, by the Rev. Stephen Ricketts of Providence-Fort Washington Charge in Fort...
by Erik AlsgaardUMConnection Staff Yaasmeen Spencer was shopping at Costco in Washington, D.C., last fall with her three-month old son, Rhys, in tow. A nice man struck up a conversation with her, and out of the blue asked if the baby had been baptized. “It was kind of...
by Melissa LauberUMConnection Staff WHEN THEY FIRST started meeting at Zuali Malsawma's house a decade ago, the 10 people gathered hoped they might grow to be a fellowship of 25 people...
At the 2014 Annual Conference Session, members adopted five resolutions on human sexuality, which included 13 specific measures. In general terms, these resolutions call on the Baltimore-Washington Conference and its members to be an inclusive Church that grants full civil and ecclesiastical...
At the 230th session of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, May 29-31, two rules of law were requested from Bishop Marcus Matthews. The first, by the Rev. Stephen Ricketts, was a request for a ruling regarding the conference’s voting procedures and process on five resolutions...
By Kathy L. Gilbert June 24, 2014 | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) The Rev. Frank Schaefer had his ministerial credentials reinstated by a United Methodist regional appeals committee June 23, three days after a hearing held near Baltimore. The denomination’s Northeastern Jurisdictional...
By Erik AlsgaardJune 20, 2014 | LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md. (UMNS) The nine members of a United Methodist regional appeals committee have wrapped up nearly three hours of testimony and questioning, and the fate of Frank Schaefer now rests in their hands. A decision about whether he can add...
