Celebrating Asian/Pacific American heritage

The Rev. Grace S. Pak is the director of cross-racial and cross-cultural (CR/CC) leadership at the UMC’s General Commission on Religion & Race. She has worked closely with the Eastern PA Conference’s Commission on Religion & Race and Cabinet to …

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

By the Rev. Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne “Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is not an Indigenous issue – it’s a human issue.”    —RagghiRain, Eastern Cherokee The #MeToo movement has brought attention to the staggering number of women who have …

Resources from CONAM’s “Hidden Figures” presentation

Resources from CONAM’s “Hidden Figures” presentation on April 19, 2020: A link to the google drive which contains the presentation From April 19 and the power point presentation can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zu1dgoQ3SBKS9UrmUgANAOwFlqWinpQL?usp=sharing A link to the NEJ website with an …

BMCR focuses on separation plans, leadership views

Much of the annual meeting of the African American caucus of The United Methodist Church focused on major changes being proposed to the now-delayed General Conference, as well as the views of black church leaders…

Conference to address traumatic stress from racism

By John W. Coleman The United Methodist Church’s Eastern PA Conference will offer an unusual workshop to address a timely topic that concerns many people of color in today’s highly charged racial climate: race-based traumatic stress. The conference’s Commission on …

Black UM leaders explore various GC2020 proposals

By John W. Coleman More than 600 African American United Methodists from around the Northeastern Jurisdiction convened Jan. 11 in Philadelphia to learn about controversial changes being proposed to the denomination’s 2020 legislative General Conference (GC2020). Now, more such events …