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Why We Need a Black History Month - A perspective

By Bishop Forrest Stith  Following the Emancipation of enslaved people , there were many attempts to tell the story of persons of African descent in the United States of America, some negative and some positive.  It was an African American history ...

A Narrative of our Leadership

A Narrative of our Leadership The Council of Bishops November 2018 The May 2016 General Conference asked us to provide leadership in discerning a way forward for the church, so that we might fulfill our mission in light of the Great Commission ...

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Statement on racism from Ebony bishops

Ebony Bishops’ Statement to the Council of Bishops and the People Called United Methodists  on the Resurgence of Racism in the United States Adopted by Council of Bishops on November 6, 2018 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed...