Bishops take on climate, finances, vaccines

Over a busy three and half hours, United Methodist bishops spent the last day of their fall online meeting making a range of decisions on church life and global challenges. The Council of Bishops on Nov. 5 affirmed a denomination-wide …

Haitian migrants bring vitality to declining church

At the beginning of this century, the Rev. Bill Jenkins did not imagine that he would see a deep transformational process in the congregation that he was starting to serve. Jenkins had been appointed pastor of Christ United Methodist Church …

Group seeks bishops’ grace in church exits

A group of United Methodists is urging bishops to allow congregations that want to do so to leave with property now — rather than wait for General Conference. “As the writer of Ecclesiastes notes, ‘For everything there is a season,’ …

Bishops offer framework for inclusive church

The Council of Bishops has cast a vision for a future United Methodist Church that transcends the labels many church members use to describe themselves. “We cannot be a traditional church or a progressive church or a centrist church. We …

A Note from DS Morton – November 6, 2021

“I was in prison and you visited me.”(Matthew 25:36c) I have never been particularly active in prison ministry; admittedly, that’s an aisle I’ve been leery to cross. As a seminarian, I used to visit in the Chatham County prison (south of …

Native American Heritage Month celebrates Indigenous U.S. communities

“This is one of the most beautiful statements I’ve seen from a White House in a long time,” said Sandi Cianciulli, co-chair of CONAM. Read: A Proclamation on National Native American Heritage Month, 2021  Presidential Actions  October 29, 2021 November is Native American …