Churches throughout the Baltimore-Washington Conference are responding to the flooding in Texas after Hurricane Harvey in significant and tangible ways. At Emmanuel UMC in Laurel on Sept. 3, for example, members took time between morning worship services to put together flood buckets.
Moments before the federal government decided to end the program that provides permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, members of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition joined members of immigrant communities from throughout the D.C. region in a rally outside the...
More than 3,000 ministers gathered in the shadow of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Aug. 28 for the “Ministers March for Justice.” United Methodist clergy, from bishops to local pastors, were among those lending their voices, prayers and support.
We pray for all those affected by the ferocity of Hurricane Harvey, which inundated the Texas Gulf Coast with catastrophic flooding this weekend, causing damage that weather watchers have called "unprecedented." The United Methodist Committee on Relief is already at work with relief officials...
Ten members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference area and staff attended the 46th assembly of Methodists Associated Representing the Cause of Hispanic/Latino Americans, or MARCHA, the denomination’s Hispanic/Latino caucus, held in Dallas Aug. 10-13. About a quarter of the attendees were youth...
A new drug education video series by Fallston UMC, which is now available to you and your congregation, enables local churches to make a difference in the opioid crisis facing our youth.
United Methodists are encouraged to observe the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, including through Sunday school studies and offering special Reformation Day prayers in worship. Bishop B. Michael Watson, ecumenical officer of the Council of Bishops, shares these and other ideas...
Young people in The United Methodist Church are being encouraged to deepen their faith by using artistic witness in the same creative tradition as prolific hymn writer Charles Wesley.
As we watched the rally unfold today in Charlottesville, Va., we were reminded that hate, bigotry, bias and prejudice are not new to the American landscape. These vile concepts have reared their ugly head in every generation. While we should not be surprised, those who are Christ-followers...
On this day, 72 years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki – just three days after dropping one on the city of Hiroshima. It is estimated that over 150,000 people were killed over those three days. Fast forward to present day, the last few months have...
