UMC News
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Ministry connects seniors with today’s tech
20 October 2021Seniors are making strides into the computer age at a north Nashville church, thanks to classes made possible by a grant from United Methodist Discipleship Ministries.
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‘Church for nerds’ builds community without a building
18 October 2021As churches in the pandemic era have gotten creative with virtual worship, Checkpoint Church was designed to be exclusively virtual. They don’t even have a building.
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Guidance for sexual harassment survivors
18 October 2021A new website from the United Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women is designed to help people navigate the process for addressing sexual misconduct in the church.
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Kenyan church provides clean, safe water
15 October 2021Today, some 2,000 community members, including 500 pupils at Moheto Primary School, benefit from a borehole project in rural Kenya.
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Kenneth Rowe, Methodist historian, dies at 84
13 October 2021Rowe was an important writer on Methodist history, seeking to include marginalized groups, and gave crucial help to other scholars as a professor, librarian, archivist and bibliographer.
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Billy Abraham, traditionalist scholar, dies
12 October 2021Longtime Perkins School of Theology professor never shied from a debate but maintained friendships across the theological divide.
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Mt. Bethel countersues conference leaders
11 October 2021Attorneys for Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church argue that the North Georgia Conference is blocking the congregation’s efforts to disaffiliate.
