Beloved of God, as we prepare to enter this deep and rich time of Lent -- a time of prayer, remembering our baptism, and preparing others for theirs -- we look back over almost a year of global pandemic, racial and political unrest, and almost a year of social distancing, tremendous loss, and...
(Bishop Cynthia Fierro-Harvey, president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, has endorsed this statement from Bishop Easterling.) January 6, 2021 In...
On Dec.18, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, spoke at a service of prayer and solidarity at Asbury UMC in Washington, D.C., where vandals recently tore down and burned a Black Lives Matter banner. Bishop Easterling's remarks at Asbury UMC We...
Beloved: Mary probably didn't hear the choir of angels. On that first Christmas night in Bethlehem, it would have been chilly, there would have been pain mixed with tears after giving birth, alone in a strange place, as a teenage girl with a man she barely knew, separated from all...
December 14, 2020 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic...
There continues to be deep sadness and grief within the Baltimore-Washington Conference as we learned of the passing of the Rev. Dr. William Bobby McClain. Rev. Dr. McClain touched numerous lives and his passing reverberates across the conference, the denomination, and the entire Christian...
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...
July 8, 2020 My Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Over the past four years, we have proclaimed, together as a conference, that "We are One." (Ephesians 4:1-16) We are one in times of celebration and joy, and we are one in times of challenge and struggle. As the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna...
By Erik Alsgaard Two days. Two marches. Two rallies. One message: The church must rise against racism. Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, episcopal leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, put prayers into action at two events June 18 and 19, one in Baltimore and one in Washington, D.C. Both...
Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, right, prays with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser.Photos on this page by Melissa Lauber. By Erik Alsgaard On a blistering hot early June day, in the shadow of St. John’s Episcopal Church across the street from the White House, they gathered to pray. In the...
