Reflection for All PNW and Alaska Clergy
Bishop Grant Hagiya addressing the General Conference during the Plenary Celebration and Challenge of the Mission and Ministry of The United Methodist Church on...
United Methodist Pension Board Loses $118.8 Million in 2015 Due to Fossil Fuel Investments
For Immediate Release:
May 11, 2016
Portland, OR—The United Methodist General Board of Pension and Health Benefits lost $118.8 million in 2015 due to stock investments...
Council of Bishops follows tradition with letter to the church
Washington, D.C.: Reviving a tradition that is more than a century old, the United Methodist Council of Bishops sent this letter today to the...
Commission on a Way Forward releases final videos for 2019 General Conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Commission on a Way Forward has released the final two videos of a series that the Commission hopes will inform The United...
Some Thoughts from Bishop Hagiya on #gc2012
It is my second week here in Tampa at our General Conference. The Council of Bishops meets the week before General Conference starts, so...
May 19 wrap-up: New missionaries, special GC costs
By Joey Butler
May 19, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS)
A day after tabling potentially contentious legislation on human sexuality, General Conference 2016 moved through its...
VIDEO: WJ Bishops declare Safe Harbor for LGBTQ+ clergy, candidates
VIDEO: WJ Bishops declare Safe Harbor for LGBTQ+ clergy, candidates #UMC4All
Bishop Dyck says pope inspired her
By Anne Marie Gerhardt
May 13, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS)
Pope Francis has been inspiring Bishop Sally Dyck. No, she isn’t converting to Catholicism, but...
Bishops’ president: Believe church can change
By Heather Hahn
May 6, 2016 | PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS)
Growing up in the still racially segregated Methodist Church, young Warner Brown Jr. knew the denomination...
Did We Find Our Way Forward?
"Did we find our way forward? I think we did, just not in the way many expected or hoped," writes Inland Missional District Superintendent Gregg Sealey reflecting on the recent General Conference. Since returning home from St. Louis, he has been listening to how people here are processing the decisions made.