The following are excerpts from Evan Moffic’s upcoming book, First the Jews: Combating the World’s Longest-Running Hate Campaign (Abingdon Press, 2018). Evan is a rabbi in the Chicago area who leads Congregation Solel, a synagogue of 500 families. He blogs regularly...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the horrific shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi, resident bishop of the Western Pennsylvania Conference, has released the following statement: "The United Methodist Church of...
By Erik Alsgaard Lovely Lane UMC: Baltimore City Station, the historic birthplace of Methodism in the United States, voted Oct. 21 to become a Reconciling Community. The move, said the church’s pastor, the...
Ruby Mae Hanson Price, 82, of Westminster, died Oct. 24, 2018, at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She was married to the late Rev. John Olan Price who died in 2005. A Service of Life, Death and Resurrection was held at Krug Chapel at Carroll Lutheran Village in Westminster Nov. 2, with...
Ruby Mae Hanson Price, 82, of Westminster, died Oct. 24, 2018, at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She was married to the late Rev. John Olan Price who died in 2005. A Service of Life, Death and Resurrection was held at Krug Chapel at Carroll Lutheran Village in Westminster Nov. 2, with...
By Erik AlsgaardUMConnection staff Church members and civic leaders pray on the front porch of the new UMC House at Van Buren UMC in Washington, D.C. Photo by Erik Alsgaard. Every Sunday morning for months, Pastor Lucinda Kent stopped in the breezeway between the parsonage and church at Van...
The following letter was submitted by the Baltimore-Washington Conference Chapter of the Wesley Covenant Association in response to a column written by Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, titled “We Can Remain Together: Why I Support the One Church Plan.” To our beloved members...
By Heather Hahn and Jim PattersonUnited Methodist News Service St. Andrew UMC in Panama City, Fla., seen Oct. 11 after Hurricane Michael. United Methodists across the southeast are preparing to offer long-term relief after the most powerful hurricane in nearly 50 years slammed into the...
The Rev. Pauline V. Wilkins, a retired Elder, died Oct. 11, 2018, at home A Celebration of Life service was held Oct. 20 at Sharp Street Memorial UMC in Baltimore. The Rev. Cary James officiated with participation by the Revs. Raphael Koikoi, Eugene Matthews, Karen Bethea...
By Melissa Lauber Lay people throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference’s 631 churches volunteer countless hours to ministry. Or do they? Words matter, and the word “volunteer” may need to be stricken from the church’s lexicon in favor of “disciple,” many...
