National UMC summit spotlights mass incarceration, redemption
More than 50 participants from six annual conferences in the United Methodist Church convened earlier this month to network and learn about the issues around mass incarceration at the biennial Nati...
Gammon, the UMC's only Black seminary, is finding its future
The day before a low-key August 15 ribbon-cutting for a new student lounge at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, the rest of the building was still a work in progress....
DC church wrestles with FBI connection
The association between Jesus and longtime FBI chief J. Edgar Hoovers comes up frequently at Capitol Hill United Methodist Church in Washington, DC....
James Lawson, pastor and nonviolent activist, dies at 95
James M. Lawson Jr., who made it his life’s work to create a nonviolent nation, died June 9 at age 95....
UMC alternative worship group hosts first national gathering
Nowadays a brew pub or a website may be a more effective place to seek God than a church....
Methodist-sponsored airport exhibit spotlights Indigenous heritage
While traveling several years back, Chebon Kernell came across something interesting at Hartsfield-Jack...
Jackie Robinson’s Methodist faith
Besieged by death threats, racial abuse, and physical danger, somehow Jackie Robinson never publicly lost his composure during the 1947 Major League Baseball season, when he integrated the league.<...
Independent film aims to dispel myths about Korean Americans
Happy Cleaners, an independent film set in the diverse Flushing neighborhood in Queens, New York, is about a Korean American family that owns a struggling dry-cleaning business....
Iliff School of Theology reckons with grisly past
For 80 years, a book about Christianity bound in the tanned skin of a murdered Lenape Indian was displayed in a glass case outside the library at the Iliff School of Theology, a United Methodist se...
HBCU presidents encourage Black people to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trial
On a recent Sunday, photos of two Black men graced the sanctuary of First Grace United Methodist Church in New Orleans as Shawn Moses Anglim spoke during “a little children’s moment.”...
New children’s book highlights ‘Father of Gospel Music’
Disbelief is often the response Carole Boston Weatherford gets from children about her books featuring notable African Americans....
United Methodist assembly meets to make a decision on sexuality and the church
There are multiple options on the table at the special meeting of the top legislative body for the 12.6-million-member global denomination.