Faith Stories

Passengers wear life jackets on a boat on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo. Life jackets are now mandatory for boat passengers after an Oct. 3 shipwreck on the lake killed 34 people, including a United Methodist mother and her 9-month-old baby. Photo by Philippe Kituka Lolonga, UM News.

United Methodists killed in Congo shipwreck

Church member Pascaline Mulindwa and her baby are among those killed when a ferry boat sank on Lake Kivu in war-torn eastern Congo.
Ecumenism
The Rev. Bruce Robbins, former staff executive of the United Methodist Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, speaks during a press conference at the denomination's 2004 General Conference in Pittsburgh. Robbins died Aug. 3. He was 73. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Robbins was ‘shining light’ for ecumenism

The Rev. Bruce W. Robbins, advocate for Christian unity and interfaith dialogue, dies at 73.
Church Leadership
The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler. Photo by Dominque J. Allan, Create It Photography, LLC.

Black clergywomen experience freedom to dance, operate, manifest

At its national meeting in New Orleans, the Black Clergywomen of The United Methodist Church caucus gathered to encourage one another and be encouraged by peers in key leadership positions.
Faith Stories
The Rev. Tim Holton, a United Methodist pastor, visits family graves at the Simpson Cemetery in Eagleville, Tenn. In 1997, his cousin, Daryl Holton, killed his four children with a military-style rifle and was eventually executed in Tennessee’s electric chair. He is buried beneath the light-colored headstone at left, next to the graves of his children. Tim Holton now serves on the board of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and ministers to death row inmates as a volunteer chaplain at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Pastor’s life shaped by family murders

The Rev. Tim Holton has spent more time than most thinking about the death penalty. He’s against it despite — or perhaps because of — the horrific murder of four Holton children in 1997 by his cousin.

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