Who Are We Resources

Part One:

Week 1: Exploring the Nature of God

• John Wesley on the Character of God 
• Book: Blowing the Lid Off the God-Box: Opening Up to the Limitless Faith by Rev. Anne Robertson
• Movie: Bruce Almighty (2003) 
• John Wesley Sermon: “The Unity of The Divine Being”

Week 2:  Learning Lessons from the Garden

• Putting our assignment of stewardship for creation in context: Humane Society article
• Essay: “Faith in Gods and in God,” by Richard Niebuhr. This essay distinguishes active faith from belief. 
• John Wesley Sermon on “Original Sin” 

Week 3: Remembering our Story

• Watch the Ted Talk “The Danger of a Single Story,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Book Chapter: Chapter Four “Bondage, Exodus, Wilderness” from A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament, Bruce Birch, Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim and David L. Peterson
• Movie: Schindler’s List (1993)
• Wesley’s Sermon on “The Wilderness State”

Week 4: Embracing God’s Many Names

• In the midst of the mess: Hagar and the God Who Sees by Amy R. Buckley
• John Wesley Writings: Sermon “On The Trinity” – Cork, Ireland, 1775

Week 5: Visioning and Prophesying

• Article: Where have all the prophet’s gone? 
• Movie: Selma (2015)
• John Wesley’s Writing: Sermon on the Mount, 12 

Week 6: Liberating

• John Wesley’s Writings: Sermon on “The New Creation”
• Movie: A Force More Powerful (1999). A documentary about liberation movements across the world.
• Books:
  
  • “Seeing God in Each Other, ed. By Sheryl Kujawa Holbrook
  • “America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America,” by Jim Wallis 

 

Part Three:

Week 1: Hope Born Out of History: The Cradle of Methodism

• Video: http://tiny.cc/Part3Week1
• “The Christmas Conference: 10 Days That Started a Church”: http://tiny.cc/xmasconference
• United Methodist Church Timeline: http://tiny.cc/timelineUMC
• Lovely Lane UMC: http://www.lovelylane.net/
• Old Otterbein UMC: https://www.oldotterbeinumc250.org/
• Sharp Street UMC: https://sharpstreetmemorial.org/

Week 2: Hope Born Out of History: Law and Grace

• Video: http://tiny.cc/Part3Week2
• “Francis Asbury and Robert Strawbridge”: https://bit.ly/372tK5R 
• Farmers that helped sow the seeds of Methodism:
• The Strawbridge Shrine: Its Role in Methodist History and a Tour of the Site:
• Strawbridge Shrine: www.strawbridgeshrine.org
• The Faith Journey of Robert and Elizabeth Strawbridge: https://bit.ly/373Olqv
• Reclaiming Evangelism:

Week 3: Hope Born Out of History: Our Struggles

• Video: http://tiny.cc/Part3Week3
• Women in Ministry -- http://tiny.cc/Womeninministry
• Corporate video: http://tiny.cc/diversityoracle
• Timeline of Women in Ministry: http://tiny.cc/womentimeline
• Women Bishops of The United Methodist Church: http://tiny.cc/womenbishopbook
• Courageous Spirit: Voices from Women in Ministry: http://tiny.cc/courageousvoices
• Implicit Bias: https://bit.ly/2GWCJLg 
• General Commission on the Status and Role of Women Curriculum: https://bit.ly/2vYzLE1
• #HerTruth: www.umcna.org/hertruth
• The Church and People with Disabilities: http://tiny.cc/UMWdisabilities
• Board of Church and Society: www.umcjustice.org/resources

Week 4: Hope Born Out of History: Telling the Whole Truth

• Video: http://tiny.cc/Part3Week4
• ‘Facing the Truth’: http://tiny.cc/TutuTruth
• Black People in the Methodist Church: Whither Thou Goest?: http://tiny.cc/blackmethodistbook
• Methodism's Racial Dilemma: The Story of the Central Jurisdiction: http://tiny.cc/umccentraljurisdiction
• This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience: http://tiny.cc/thisfarbyfaithbook
• NEJ Call to Action resources: http://tiny.cc/nejcalltoaction
• Finding Fellowship: The Quince Orchard Project.
• We’ve Come This Far by Faith

Week 5: Hope Born Out of History: Our Missional Impact

• Video: http://tiny.cc/Part3Week5
• 2018 BWC Annual Report, http://tiny.cc/BWCministries
• Timeline http://tiny.cc/BWCmissiontimeline
• Missio Dei and the Means of Grace: A Theology of Participation: http://tiny.cc/missiodeibook
• Ants video/commercial:
• Visit the United Methodist Building: http://tiny.cc/umbuilding
• General Board of Church and Society General Commission on Religion and Race: http://www.gcorr.org/

Week 6: Hope for Our Next Steps

• Week 6 of the third part of Who are We as the people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference was being recorded just as the coronavirus pandemic descended.
• For those who do not wish to wait for the final video, we encourage you to hold a conversation that encourages participants to look back over the past sessions and summarize the past and present will shape our shared future. The BWC’s vision is “Transformed Lives Transform Live.” How does this vision speak to your journey from head to heart?