“Perhaps a church should be a place where what kind of standard business principles on how you pay people should maybe be questioned, and that people's calling should be considered more without salary as a barrier.” — The Rev. David Eagle, assistant research professor of global health at Duke University.
Striving for equity in pastor salaries
DURHAM, N.C. (UM News) — A study on salary disparities between Black and white United Methodist pastors in North and South Carolina shows that Black pastors make substantially less than their white counterparts. The researchers suggest revenue sharing and moving salary decisions involving pastors out of local churches to annual conferences. Jim Patterson reports.
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Ask The UMC
Why do United Methodist pastors change churches?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Many United Methodist congregations in the United States will receive new clergy leadership beginning July 1. Ask The UMC, a ministry of United Methodist Communications, has more about the history of how and why clergy are moved to new appointments.
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Baltimore-Washington Conference
Church responds to Smithsburg shooting
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Members of Shiloh United Methodist Church gathered June 12 to remember three men murdered in a mass shooting while at work at Columbia Machine in Smithsburg. They mourned Mark Allan Frey, 50; Charles Edward Minnick Jr., 31; and Joshua Robert Wallace, 30 — all three related to people in the congregation. Melissa Lauber reports.
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New 2022 annual conference reports posted
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UM News) — United Methodist News is posting 2022 annual conference reports. New this week are Illinois Great Rivers, Michigan, Minnesota, North Georgia and West Ohio conferences.
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COMMENTARIES
UM News includes in the Daily Digest various commentaries about issues in the denomination. The opinion pieces reflect a variety of viewpoints and are the opinions of the writers, not the UM News staff.
Shifting Margins
Giving thanks for the connection
LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. — Retired United Methodist Bishop Kenneth L. Carder, just back from the Holston Annual Conference session, reflects on how much the United Methodist connection has meant to him over the decades.
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RESOURCES
United Methodist Communications
Juneteenth: Hope for the future wrapped in a history lesson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Juneteenth, observed as a federal holiday on June 20 this year, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S. But more than 150 years after the first Juneteenth in 1865, inequity persists. United Methodist Communications has produced a downloadable video with a history of Juneteenth and a call for the church’s commitment to ensure full freedom for all people.
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Mothers on border share stories of desperation, hope
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Thursday, June 23-Friday, June 24
Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference
Friday, June 24-Sunday, June 26
Native American Conference: Healing the Sacred Hoop
Striving for equity in pastor salaries
DURHAM, N.C. (UM News) — A study on salary disparities between Black and white United Methodist pastors in North and South Carolina shows that Black pastors make substantially less than their white counterparts. The researchers suggest revenue sharing and moving salary decisions involving pastors out of local churches to annual conferences. Jim Patterson reports.
Read story
Ask The UMC
Why do United Methodist pastors change churches?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Many United Methodist congregations in the United States will receive new clergy leadership beginning July 1. Ask The UMC, a ministry of United Methodist Communications, has more about the history of how and why clergy are moved to new appointments.
Read story
Read more Ask The UMC
Baltimore-Washington Conference
Church responds to Smithsburg shooting
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Members of Shiloh United Methodist Church gathered June 12 to remember three men murdered in a mass shooting while at work at Columbia Machine in Smithsburg. They mourned Mark Allan Frey, 50; Charles Edward Minnick Jr., 31; and Joshua Robert Wallace, 30 — all three related to people in the congregation. Melissa Lauber reports.
Read story
New 2022 annual conference reports posted
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UM News) — United Methodist News is posting 2022 annual conference reports. New this week are Illinois Great Rivers, Michigan, Minnesota, North Georgia and West Ohio conferences.
Read reports
COMMENTARIES
UM News includes in the Daily Digest various commentaries about issues in the denomination. The opinion pieces reflect a variety of viewpoints and are the opinions of the writers, not the UM News staff.
Shifting Margins
Giving thanks for the connection
LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. — Retired United Methodist Bishop Kenneth L. Carder, just back from the Holston Annual Conference session, reflects on how much the United Methodist connection has meant to him over the decades.
Read blog post
RESOURCES
United Methodist Communications
Juneteenth: Hope for the future wrapped in a history lesson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Juneteenth, observed as a federal holiday on June 20 this year, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S. But more than 150 years after the first Juneteenth in 1865, inequity persists. United Methodist Communications has produced a downloadable video with a history of Juneteenth and a call for the church’s commitment to ensure full freedom for all people.
Watch video
RECENT HEADLINES
Mothers on border share stories of desperation, hope
Photo essay: ‘I was a stranger’
EVENTS
Thursday, June 23-Friday, June 24
Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference
Friday, June 24-Sunday, June 26
Native American Conference: Healing the Sacred Hoop
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