Elders: Lean to the Other Side!
Nurturing Elders and Others:
Lean to the Other Side!
By the Rev. Paul Graves
As a wood-worker, I make a pretty fair preacher! That’s to say, wood-working...
Bishop Hagiya’s Reflections on #pnwac12
Bishop Grant Hagiya asks the 2012 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference Session to embrace hope rather than fear in his message during the Celebration of...
Wildfires Update: Our Work Continues – How to Volunteer – Get Training
By Jim Truitt
The wildfires in eastern Washington are finally either out or fully contained. State and Federal assessors are in the field this week...
Will they know we are Christians by our love?
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”
John 15:12, NIV
I don’t get it.
I try. I’ve talked, read, debated, prayed (a...
General Conference Approves United Methodist Women Autonomy
The famous UMW sign from their ministry fair exhibit at General Conference 2012. Photo by Patrick Scriven.
By Yvette Moore
May 1, 2012
By a vote of...
And so it begins…..
Bishops, including Bishop Grant Hagiya, sit around the sides of the plenary hall during the opening worship of the 2012 United Methodist General Conference...
Dear Dr. King, I am terrified.
Today, we celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! Several writers and friends from the PNW have joined together to...
The Parable of the Rubber Chickens
If this guy can squeeze music out of rubber chickens, just imagine what God could do with a United Methodist Church that was ready to love.
Schindler: On an Imperfect Mandela and His Legacy
After Mandela: Moving Towards Perfection with Hope
By the Rev. Elizabeth Ingram Schindler | Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (view more info here).
Shortly before I...
Social Principles = Law in the #UMC?
Sorry to Non-Methodists, but this is a really inside-the-ballpark conversation.The United Methodist Church, the predecessors of which grew up during the rise of the...
