Daily Digest - April 2, 2018

"Today, there’s no kind of injustice — gay rights, immigration rights, whatever — that I don’t feel obligated to address.”Clara Ester on the effect of witnessing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and his work in Memphis, Tennessee.

Funeral of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Photo courtesy of Keystone Pictures USA / Alamy Stock Photo.
 

NEWS AND FEATURES

 

United Methodists on 50 years without King

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) — United Methodist leaders who walked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. talk about where they were when he died and the impact his life has left on the world. April 4 marks 50 years since his death. Kathy L. Gilbert reports. 
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The Witness: Clara Ester, the Lorraine Motel and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Prominent Houston pastor indicted for fraud

HOUSTON (UMNS) — The longtime pastor of one of the denomination’s largest churches has been indicted by a federal grand jury on wire fraud and money laundering charges related to bond sales. The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, who leads the 18,000-member Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, maintained his innocence. Sam Hodges reports.
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Watch KTRK-TV report on Caldwell's Easter sermon

United Methodist elected governor in DRC

KINDU, Democratic Republic of Congo (UMNS) — Prosper Tunda, whose family hosted the first Methodist missionaries in East Congo in 1922, has been elected governor of the Maniema province. He is the first United Methodist governor since the Congo became independent in 1960. Chadrack Londe Tambwe reports.
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The Washington Post
A sanctuary of one

MANCOS, Colo. — Rosa Sabido has taken refuge in the United Methodist Church of Mancos since June 2, 2017, declaring sanctuary in the church rather than face deportation after 30 years of living in the U.S. Her story has rallied this small community to embrace her. Stephanie McCrummen has the story. 
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PRESS RELEASES

 

 

Higher Education and Ministry
Retirement offers chance to find true calling 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A new book, “The Life to Come: Re-Creating Retirement” by Steven M. Tipton, reflects on using retirement to find your true calling. Tipton, C.H. Candler professor emeritus of Sociology of Religion at Candler School of Theology and senior research fellow at Emory University, is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of several books, including “Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life.”
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COMMENTARIES

 

South Carolina Advocate 
God and the Winter Olympics

COLUMBIA, S.C.  — “Where is God at the Olympic games?” Madeline C. Mulkey sought to answer that question for her senior thesis at the University of South Carolina. She reports on pin-trading missionaries and more in an essay for the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate about attending the Winter Olympics in Korea.
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EVENTS

Here are some of the activities ahead for United Methodists across the connection. If you have a United Methodist event to share, you can add it to the calendar with this submission form.

Monday, April 9-Friday, April 20
 

Online lay servant workshop: Leading Bible study


Online class: Guidance and counseling approach to helping others

 

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