‘Thy will be done:’ Coping after police custody deaths A UMNS Feature By Kathy L. Gilbert June 10, 2015 Baltimore, Ferguson, Cleveland, North Charleston and Staten Island conjure up new images following the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Tamir...
United Methodist Building designated Historic Site BALTIMORE, Md. — The Baltimore-Washington Conference during its 231st annual session voted overwhelmingly to designate as a United Methodist Historic Site the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The conference...
Police chaplain: ‘We all live in same world’ By the Rev. Bonnie McCubbin June 10, 2015 | BALTIMORE (UMNS) As of Tuesday night, June 9, there have been 54 murders in Baltimore City since May 1. That’s an average of more than one per day. Most of these murders are gang and...
#BWCUMC15 – The Live Stream Experience by Lukonde Mulenga So I’m sitting in my flat in London, currently on my study abroad program, and all I can think about is how I’m missing Annual Conference. What did I do you may ask? Well, I did what any United Methodist person in my...
St. Paul United Methodist Church (Lusby, MD) Senior Pastor David Graves prepares to baptize 2015 confirmand Ben Mead with assistance from Youth Pastor Dave Showalter. St. Paul United Methodist Church in Lusby, MD celebrated baptisms, confirmations, reaffirmations of faith, and graduating...
BWC ‘Dares to Believe’ By Erik Alsgaard Meeting less than a mile from where the Methodist Church began in 1784, and just a few miles from where riots broke out in late April 2015, United Methodists of the Baltimore-Washington Conference started and ended their Annual Conference...
Racism is a spiritual issue By Marcus Matthews Featured in the Baltimore Sun Op-Ed Section - May 28, 2015 More than 1,500 United Methodists representing the 641 churches of the Baltimore-Washington Conference are gathered in Baltimore for our annual meeting right now. We will be about the...
2015 Annual Conference News Conference Dailies Thursday, May 28, 2015 Friday, May 29, 2015 Saturday, May 30, 2015 BWC ‘Dares to Believe’ - By Erik Alsgaard Racism is a spiritual issue - By Marcus Matthews Featured in the Baltimore Sun Op-Ed Section – May 28, 2015...
Baltimore Mayor thanks United Methodists for their support to the city Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake thanked The United Methodist Church today for its leadership in recent weeks following riots throughout the city spurred by the death of Freddie Gray. “I cannot say enough about the...
Theology in Revolution: Clergywomen explore politics, religion in Cuba By: Mary Buckner This spring, two world-changing events occurred back to back. On April 9, 2015, President Obama met with Cuban President Raúl Castro, the first such meeting in over half a century. Five days...
