United Methodist News Service – Recent Articles

• Conference sessions go virtual, with mixed results
  Pandemic-prompted online gatherings offer efficiencies, but technological glitches have occurred and delegates miss being together.
• Facing up to a grotesque book at Iliff
  A book with a cover made from the skin of a slain Native American has haunted United Methodist Iliff School of Theology for decades, but its president wants it used as a teachable moment instead of buried in a library vault.
• Confronting pandemic-related food insecurity
  United Methodist groups and partners continue to provide food relief to vulnerable people in Zimbabwe during COVID-19 pandemic.
• Two voices from the civil rights movement
  In a conversation about civil rights and voter suppression, two African American women shared some pivotal experiences with participants at the I AM Her Women’s Leadership Summit.
• Forging stronger ties as women of faith
  United Methodist clergy and laywomen envision something bigger as they celebrate sisterhood, build relationships and share experiences of sexism.
• Boy with United Methodist ties dies in ritual killing
  Seven-year-old was the grandson of a lay leader at Nyamutumbu United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe; his uncle has been charged with murder.
• Daily Digest - October 10, 2020
  Evangelism award winner slept outside church; How do we love our enemies?; Filipino youth respond to fire victims
• Conferences persevere under financial strain
  United Methodist conferences are offering churches relief and finding ways to still minister amid pandemic-caused hardships.
• 2020 Austria Annual Conference
  Oct. 10, 2020, online
• 2020 Indiana Annual Conference
  Updates with Oct. 10 virtual session.