faith stories

Bishop Clay Foster Lee Jr., who served the Holston Area from 1988 to 1996, died on Nov. 11, 2024. He was 94 years old. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News

Bishop Lee remembered as towering figure

Bishop Clay Foster Lee Jr., who led the Holston Conference from 1988 to 1996, died Nov. 11 at age 94. Some of his sermons gained national attention during the Civil Rights Movement.

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

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.

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