"Serving God is about serving God’s people, so the farmers market allows us to take our spiritual practices and to put them to work in our community," says one of the organizers.
Soon, you will witness a first-time event in American history, the swearing-in of Kamala Harris, the first woman to be elected Vice President of the United States. The significance of her being an African American woman, and one of Nana’s sorority sisters, might escape you. After all, Barack...
This past Wednesday morning, I woke up to what I thought was going to be another quiet day of managing through this never-ending Covid pandemic. However, this calm was totally rocked as I opened my first WhatsApp message from a friend in Zimbabwe and read: “It’s so sad Pro Furusa is no more...
How can congregational leaders discover their faithful next step in ministry to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world? The Catalyst Initiative, a new emphasis in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, will help provide answers to this question, and many more, in the...
If you’ve ever doubted “girl power” you haven’t met Julia Barnes, 9, a member of Glen Mar UMC in Ellicott City who has set out to change the world and is ready for your help.
United Methodists know Jesus’ Great Commandment “to love your neighbor” by heart (Matthew 22:39).In the year ahead, church leaders throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference are invited to live this commandment in ways that build a Beloved Community.
(Bishop Cynthia Fierro-Harvey, president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, has endorsed this statement from Bishop Easterling.) January 6, 2021 In...
Call to prayer and witness Churches called to illuminate buildings this week to support fairness and democracy As Congress prepares to certify the results of the U.S. presidential election on Jan. 6, as part of an election season unlike any other in recent memory, United...
On Dec.18, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, spoke at a service of prayer and solidarity at Asbury UMC in Washington, D.C., where vandals recently tore down and burned a Black Lives Matter banner. Bishop Easterling's remarks at Asbury UMC We...
Beloved: Mary probably didn't hear the choir of angels. On that first Christmas night in Bethlehem, it would have been chilly, there would have been pain mixed with tears after giving birth, alone in a strange place, as a teenage girl with a man she barely knew, separated from all...
