By Melissa Rudolph Pastor, North Carroll Cooperative Parish In the last edition of the UMConnection, there was a graphic depicting the church torn into two parts, with commentary from representatives on each of the sides. But this is not an accurate picture of where our church stands right...
By Linda Worthington UMConnection Staff Ever since she was a young child, Eileen Guenther wanted to make music. She has achieved her music goals superbly. Over a month this fall, she was featured in two very different concerts, one in a local church, one at the Kennedy Center. Guenther, an...
By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff Frank Schaefer, the United Methodist clergyman who was defrocked Dec. 19, is now a member of Foundry United Methodist Church and mulling over an offer from a United Methodist bishop to move west. Schaefer, his wife, Brigitte, and two of his four children...
By Deborah Carey “You should go!” exclaimed Gordon as he placed the sign-up sheet in front of me. That was all I needed. As a Presbyterian freshman desperate for a Christian community, I was immediately working my homework assignments around our weekend away. I am so glad that I...
By Melisssa Lauber UMConnection Staff Standing before a banquet room full of members of Black Methodists for Church Renewal with a monkey literally tied to his back, the Rev. Rudy Rasmus encouraged United Methodists to cast off shame and regret and begin to live wholeheartedly. Rasmus...
By Melisssa Lauber UMConnection Staff In previous years, members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference at the annual session have placed approximately $15,000 in the collection plate for a special offering. But this year, conference leaders are expecting to receive 100 times that amount as...
By Erik Alsgaard UMConnection Staff A group of religious leaders around the Washington, D.C., area have signed a letter urging the National Football League and current Washington team owner, Daniel Snyder, to change the team’s name. “The derogatory term ‘redskin&rsquo...
By Erik Alsgaard & Melissa Lauber UMConnection Staff A four-alarm fire, which took more than 100 firefighters seven hours to extinguish, gutted the interior of Northwood-Appold UMC in Baltimore Dec. 27, but the cross atop the church remained standing. In the aftermath of the blaze, the...
Editor’s note: Each year, retired United Methodist Bishop Woodie W. White writes a "birthday letter" to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about the progress of racial equality in the United States. White, now bishop-in-residence at Emory University in Atlanta, was...
The Rev. Charles Lewis Frum, 89, a retired Elder, died Jan. 21, 2014, at Pleasant Valley Hospital, with family at his side. A funeral service was held Jan. 24 at Heights UMC in Point Pleasant, W. Va. It was conducted by two of his sons, the Rev. John Frum and the Rev. Wayne Frum. He was buried...
