News and Views

The time before a journey begins is often filled with high hopes and creative expectations. It’s a time for vision and daydreams.

There continues to be deep sadness and grief within the Baltimore-Washington Conference as we learned of the passing of the Rev. Dr. William Bobby McClain. Rev. Dr. McClain touched numerous lives and his passing reverberates across the conference, the denomination, and the entire Christian...

As part of the virtual Laity Session on Nov. 14, members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference spent significant time in learning about tools for engaging in anti-racism work and conversations.

By Melissa Lauber  All Saints Day is a time for remembering and honoring the dead. However, this year, the spirit of resurrection crept into a unique service between Dumbarton and Mt. Zion UMCs in Georgetown, whose members gathered in an historic cemetery to address racism and pray for...

 By Melissa Lauber  Conference Lay Leader Delores Martin and Bishop LaTrelle Easterling gathered with more than 500 participants on Zoom, Nov. 14 to celebrate the special ways that the lay people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference answer Christ’s call to serve as “the...

By Melissa Lauber  All Saints Day is a time for remembering and honoring the dead. However, this year, the spirit of resurrection crept into a unique service between Dumbarton and Mt. Zion UMCs in Georgetown, whose members gathered in an historic cemetery to address racism and pray for...

By Melissa Lauber  Amid a storm of uncertainty on the day following national elections, Methodists in D.C. gathered for a vigil of justice and unity and to begin addressing pain caused by deep ideological division.  “This great experiment called the United States of America is...

Weekly prayers from the bishop and Cabinet.

Churches throughout the BWC are beginning to reflect upon and take action to learn about and address racism in their congregations’ history and in their communities today. The men at Poolesville UMC are seeking to offer humility, love and healing, to their small community.  By Link...

By Melissa Lauber How will God use the people of the Baltimore-Washington Conference to be vessels of peace, vessels of love, vessels of change? This question sparked lively online engagement as Bishop LaTrelle Easterling met in eight sessions Oct. 26-29 with 331 clergy and 603 lay people. The...