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With the partial federal government shutdown entering its fourth week, faith leaders from the area, including Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, called for a quick end. Erik Alsgaard reports.
NOTE: This is the statement delivered by Bishop LaTrelle Easterling on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, on the front steps of the United Methodist Building in Washington, D.C.
If you don’t work, you can’t eat. Those words are contained in the Pauline corpus, a tune sung by...
“We are One: United to Love,” will be the theme of the 235th session of Baltimore-Washington Conference when it gathers Wednesday, May 29, through Saturday, June 1, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel.
This winter, clergy and lay people are invited to a season of discernment to assess if they wish to serve as delegates to the 2020 General Conference of The United Methodist Church and the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference.
In a dramatically new way of pursuing God’s kingdom, the Baltimore-Washington Conference has issued its inaugural batch of $39,600 in Missional Innovation Grants to 10 recipients.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, and the 51st year after his assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. As was the case in 1968, the nation and world today are wrought with social, economic, political and religious upheaval. Over the past...
There’s a verse in Deuteronomy 2:3 where the Israelites have been wandering in the wilderness, seeking to move into the Promised Land. God eventually tells them: “You have been going around in circles in these hills long enough. Head north.”
About two weeks before Christmas, Christie Latona, Director of Connectional Ministries for the Baltimore-Washington Conference, Emma Escobar, Coordinator of Hispanic/Latino Ministries for the BWC, and Julie Wilson, Chair of the BWC's Immigration Task Force, were south of San Diego, Calif., at...
The Federal Government's partial shutdown is being felt throughout the country and especially in the BWC. Here's how some churches are starting to respond.
To the People of the United Methodist Church:
Grace and Peace to you in these days of Christmas, and at the conclusion of a calendar year.
At the fall meeting of the Council of Bishops at St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, bishops approved a motion to send a pastoral letter to the Global LGBTQ...