Gurney Leon “Woody” Leatherwood, 84, the husband of the Rev. Neva Leatherwood, a retired pastor, died Nov. 8, 2018, from lung cancer. A memorial service was held Nov. 21, in the chapel of Bethany UMC in Ellicott City. Gurney Leon Leatherwood was born Oct. 2, 1934,in Mount...
Gurney Leon “Woody” Leatherwood, 84, the husband of the Rev. Neva Leatherwood, a retired pastor, died Nov. 8, 2018, from lung cancer. A memorial service was held Nov. 21, in the chapel of Bethany UMC in Ellicott City. Gurney Leon Leatherwood was born Oct. 2, 1934,in Mount...
St. Simons Island, Georgia – Council of Bishops President Bishop Ken Carter this morning urged fellow bishops to call upon God to help The United Methodist Church to move forward during this time when the church finds itself in unfamiliar territory. In his presidential address at the...
Adopted by Council of Bishops on November 6, 2018 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent...
The following are excerpts from Evan Moffic’s upcoming book, First the Jews: Combating the World’s Longest-Running Hate Campaign (Abingdon Press, 2018). Evan is a rabbi in the Chicago area who leads Congregation Solel, a synagogue of 500 families. He blogs regularly...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the horrific shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi, resident bishop of the Western Pennsylvania Conference, has released the following statement: "The United Methodist Church of...
By Erik Alsgaard Lovely Lane UMC: Baltimore City Station, the historic birthplace of Methodism in the United States, voted Oct. 21 to become a Reconciling Community. The move, said the church’s pastor, the...
Ruby Mae Hanson Price, 82, of Westminster, died Oct. 24, 2018, at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She was married to the late Rev. John Olan Price who died in 2005. A Service of Life, Death and Resurrection was held at Krug Chapel at Carroll Lutheran Village in Westminster Nov. 2, with...
Ruby Mae Hanson Price, 82, of Westminster, died Oct. 24, 2018, at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She was married to the late Rev. John Olan Price who died in 2005. A Service of Life, Death and Resurrection was held at Krug Chapel at Carroll Lutheran Village in Westminster Nov. 2, with...
By Erik AlsgaardUMConnection staff Church members and civic leaders pray on the front porch of the new UMC House at Van Buren UMC in Washington, D.C. Photo by Erik Alsgaard. Every Sunday morning for months, Pastor Lucinda Kent stopped in the breezeway between the parsonage and church at Van...
