Clergy of the Philadelphia Episcopal Area (Peninsula-Delaware and Eastern Pennsylvania conferences) held their annual “Lenten Day Apart” with me at the Aldersgate UMC in Wilmington…
NEJ leaders respond to GC2019 decisions
The UMC’s Northeastern Jurisdiction recently alerted members to two statements published on its website that address historic outcomes of, and poignant reactions to, the 2019 Special Session of the General Conference. One is an Easter message from the NEJ Vision …
Mountville’s oldest church prepares for its 175th anniversary
As you drive along Mountville’s Main Street, the towers of the Gothic-style St. Paul’s United Methodist Church rise above the trees. A large stained-glass window overlooks the roadway. In the afternoon and evening hours, sunlight pours through the colorful glass …
East District to sponsor 2nd cross-racial dialogue
The East District will hold its second interracial topical dialogue in its “Walking With: An African American Experience” series next Friday to Saturday, May 17-18. And it will happen at a church that probably knows a lot about cross-racial study …
See our delegate nominees for GC2020
View and read about the 27 clergy and lay Eastern PA Conference members nominated for General Conference 2020. We’ll vote on them at AC2019.
UMC on ‘wait and see’ mindset after church court upheld Traditional Plan on homosexuality: bishop
Left-leaning congregations and LGBT activists within the United Methodist Church are looking to next year’s General Conference in the hopes they can change the denomination’s stance on homosexuality. Despite failing to change the denomination’s official position against homosexuality and same-sex …
What did the Judicial Council decide?
Rather than rule on the 2019 UMC’s General Conference’s Traditional
Plan as a whole, the Judicial Council decided to rule instead on the
constitutionality of each of its petitions. Learn more…
Bishop’s Blog: Murder in the Heart
It seems that the world has gone crazy with a series of hate-related mass murders recently. In New Zealand, Muslims were killed while worshiping. Then there were bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday…
UMC top court OKs part of Traditional Plan, church exit plan
The United Methodist Church Judicial Council, meeting April 23-26, ended churchwide suspense as it ruled on controversial legislation passed…
Sri Lanka Easter tragedy
Even as we celebrate the resurrection, we ask: how long, O Lord, how long must violence and terrorism continue to wreak havoc in your global communities.
Our deepest condolences go to the Sri Lankan community…