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Racism
Confronting hate: What do you wear?
An encounter with neo-Nazis shows how fear, the need for belonging and distorted views about Christianity form a dangerous mix.
Church Leadership
Deaconesses are still here – let’s invest in them too!
A distinctly separate order from deacons, deaconesses and home missioners serve in a wide variety of full-time lay ministries for the church.
Church Leadership
To revitalize the church, we must invest in deacons
The United Methodist Church cannot continue to treat deacons as a second class within the ordination hierarchy.
General Conference
Deacons can now preside at sacraments 'when contextually appropriate'
In what presiding Bishop David Graves called a “historic moment,” General Conference on May 2 passed new legislation granting authority to deacons to preside at the sacraments in their ministry settings.