Jun 16, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
In a recent statement from the United Methodist Council on Bishops about the scourge of racism, one sentence stands out to me among many important sentences. The sentence that catches my attention comes from Bishop Latrelle Easterling of the Baltimore-Washington Area,...
Jun 15, 2020 | Arlington DS Notes, News & Info
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor...
Jun 17, 2020 | Alexandria District Lay Leader, News & Info
Some of you may have recently received (or seen) the following invitation from our District Superintendent. “I invite you to join Bishop Lewis, several DS’s and many United Methodists and other people of faith for a peaceful march for justice. This march...
Jun 15, 2020 | Arlington District Lay Leader, News & Info
We are faced with a pandemic that has put all of us at risk of grave illness but has revealed how unjustly we treat each other. I am heart sickened by what I see. How can we be so unjust? What can I say or do to make a difference? I am thankful there are people who...
Jun 17, 2020 | Books, News & Info
Here are a few recent books to consider if you want to expand your Christian discipleship by going deeper in the area of racial justice: Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Convergent Books, 2018). Walter Brueggemann,...
