The Baltimore-Washington Conference recently received a grant of $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish its new Catalyst Initiative, an effort designed to empower local churches to thrive in mission and ministry as they seek to transform knowledge into life-changing action.
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” -- 2 Chronicles 7:14 The spiritual discipline of fasting has been a...
by Erik Alsgaard More than 60 lay and clergy leaders in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, who make up the Connectional Table, participated in a virtual session Oct. 3, to continue their work of anti-bias training. Noting that this work was “our ministry, not additional...
As the nation celebrates Columbus Day on Oct. 12, now recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in a growing number of states and in Washington, D.C., people of faith remember the people who lived on the land when Columbus and other explorers arrived. The General Conference of The...
By Kirstin Shrom-Rhoads* On Friday, September 25, the energetic and hopeful directors at Manidokan —myself, Rev. Kirstin Shrom-Rhoads, and Steve Lane — were dropped off in the wee early and still dark hours of 5 a.m. in Harpers Ferry, WVa. From there, a town well...
A Statement of Faith, Hope, and Action, rooted in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, in response to the Breonna Taylor verdict By Rev. Stacey Cole WilsonExecutive Minister of Justice and Service, Baltimore-Washington Conference To the church of God that is in the Baltimore-Washington...
Sign a petition to ICE to release Binsar Siahaan Read a story on the press briefing with faith leaders Bishop LaTrelle Easterling’s Remarks: Press Conference for Binsar Siahaan’s Release By Melissa Lauber It’s a political story of such gravity...
Monday, September 21, 2020 The Word of God states in Psalm 24 that the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it -- the world and its inhabitants too. God is the one who established it. Although humanity has created borders and the constructs of human identity, we are...
by Erik Alsgaard In the early morning of Thursday, Sept. 10, Binsar Siahaan met with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Glenmont UMC in Silver Spring, Maryland, because his ankle monitor was not working properly. Or so he was told. Siahaan, who arrived in the United States...
By Erik Alsgaard The history of American Christianity is so intertwined with white supremacy that most people don’t know it exists, even if they benefit from it every day. It’s like water to a fish. This fact was at the heart of a webinar Sept. 17, presented by Wesley...
