Restructuring | Budget | Pensions and Health Benefits | Disaffiliation Other Stewardship Questions | Resolutions | Other Questions The following are questions asked at the Pre-Conference sessions on May 18. The answers, about the restructuring recommendations...
by Erik Alsgaard United Methodists across the United States are gathering by the hundreds to try and figure out what’s next. Following the adoption – and subsequent ruling of the Judicial Council affirming – the Traditional Plan at the Special General Conference Session...
By Melissa Lauber For many, last year’s vandalism at Glenelg High School was a headline about racist graffiti that sparked thoughts of hate and intolerance and faded with the next week’s news. But for the Rev. Gayle Annis-Forder and Linden Linthicum UMC, those events are...
Beloved, Grace and peace to you in the name of the One through whom we live and move and have our being, Jesus the Christ. The Council of Bishops convened our spring meeting in Rosemont, Ill., from Sunday, May 5, through Thursday, May 9, 2019. In the days preceding the official...
The stained-glass window at Mount Vernon Place UMC in Baltimore is one of its classic Gothic features. Photo by Alison Burdett. By Melissa Lauber For 147 years, Mt. Vernon Place UMC has defined Baltimore’s landscape. One of the city’s three Gothic buildings, it soars with grandeur...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Several resolutions coming to the Annual Conference Session were revised at the Connectional Table meeting on May 11, 2019. The article, below, and that which appears in the newspaper, were accurate at the time of publication. This year, the Baltimore-Washington Annual...
By Melissa Lauber The Rev. Bill Brown, the newly appointed director of New Faith Expressions for the Baltimore-Washington Conference, is a runner at heart. Some days, running transcends mere exercise and becomes a spiritual discipline for him. On those days, he finds himself noting that 51...
By Linda Bloom The United Methodist Church’s top court has found that while some provisions of the newly adopted Traditional Plan remain unconstitutional, the rest of the plan is valid as church law. That was the Judicial Council’s ruling on a requested review of the Traditional...
Dear Friends, Two AWARE groups had to cancel. We are proposing two options for coming on an AWARE group this year: One from July 5-13 and the other from Nov. 29-Dec. 7. We hope you will give this careful consideration. If you decide to come, please try to bring a friend (friends). Why come on an...
Photo of Notre Dame de Paris by Hossam Ouda. By Erik Alsgaard When was the last time your church held a fire drill on Sunday morning? If you don’t remember, or you answered “never,” this story is especially for you. The recent fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in...
