Social Concerns

School has dismissed in Calumpit, Philippines, but the journey home for these schoolgirls is not on a bus or even on foot, but on a homemade raft they guide down a flooded street. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Our Changing Climate

United Methodist News is documenting the denomination’s response to climate change through a series of dispatches from sites most impacted by global warming. UM News photographer Mike DuBose offers a photo essay from a recent visit to the Philippines.

Social Concerns

Members of Grace United Methodist Church in Harrisburg, Pa., gather around their “Peace Pole,” installed to commemorate the Sept. 21 International Day of Peace and also in recognition of the charged political climate in the U.S. because of the presidential election. Photo courtesy of Grace United Methodist Church.

United Methodists react to US election

Some United Methodists are pleased with the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January, and others are heartbroken. Is there a middle ground?

Social Concerns

The Rev. Lovett H. Weems Jr. Photo courtesy of Wesley Theological Seminary.

How will U.S. United Methodists vote?

While there is no way to predict how members will vote, we can gain insights from voting results in counties where United Methodist churches are located.

Local Church

The banner in front of Woori Naperville United Methodist Church (formerly Naperville Korean United Methodist Church) in Naperville, Ill., reads, “Grace of God does everything.” On Oct. 4, the Northern Illinois Conference announced that it had signed a settlement with a breakaway faction of Naperville Korean United Methodist Church over the rightful ownership of the church building and other assets. Photo by the Rev. Nadan Jo, Woori Naperville United Methodist Church.

Dispute over church property resolved

United Methodists in the Northern Illinois Conference are celebrating a settlement reached between the conference and a breakaway faction of the former Naperville Korean United Methodist Church.

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