By Amy P. McCullough The Rev. Amy P. McCullough, chair of the Baltimore-Washington Conference's Board of Ordained Ministry, shares a personal reflection on gender, race and ministry and the study now being conducted among Conference clergy. One evening while unloading...
By Rev. Dr. C. Anthony Hunt This year marks the 93rd anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, and the 54th year after his assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. As was the case in 1968, the nation and world are fraught with various existential...
By Neal Christie The disparity between how we feel and how we ought to feel, leads to confusion where we were shaped by memories of holidays marked by endings: fractured relationships and unresolved conflicts, family and friends who have passed on, situations where we did not feel safe or...
By Melissa Lauber Sometimes the Holy Spirit catches you off-guard. It’s amazing to me how often God’s voice speaks through everyday United Methodists, who open their hearts to the sacred and then humbly share their response with the world. Most recently, I...
By Rev. Lorraine BrownPastor of Simpson UMC and Executive Director of Project SPIRIT Sickle Cell Aligning with the mission of the Baltimore Washington Conference, Project SPIRIT Sickle Cell (PSSC), seeks to support and enable young adults living with sickle cell disease to be transformed...
To the servant leaders of this Conference: I see you.I see your service.I see your sacrifice. I see the faithful ways you lead even when you’re tired ...
By Bishop LaTrelle Easterling These remarks were presented by Bishop LaTrelle Easterling as the online townhall on Aug 31, the evening before the affiliation of the Peninsula-Delaware and Baltimore-Washington Conferences. Beloved, here we are. Tomorrow launches the experiment between the...
On Aug. 12, the Rev. Neal Christie, the Baltimore-Washington Conference’s Executive Minister of Connected Engaged, met with religious and political leaders in Washington, D.C. to hand-deliver a message about voter rights to Congressional leaders. The message, from United...
By Melissa Lauber It was a scorching summer day at Strawbridge Shrine in New Windsor when Myca Jones and I did a video shoot with Rev. Doug Tzan for a fascinating resource he’s written that illuminates Methodist history in new ways. The heat index was 104 degrees and history negated...
By Rev. Wilson Shearer The Rev. Wilson Shearer was friends with the recently deceased Bishop Joseph Yeakel for 68 years. Shearer was recently asked by Lebanon Valley College to reflect upon their relationship. He remembers: When I first met Joseph Yeakel in 1947, it was at an activity...
