A report on The United Methodist Church’s involvement with U.S. boarding schools for Native American children was presented at the 10th Historical Convocation. Remembrance and reconciliation is the goal of the initial research, but more work is planned.
As a theologian who works in the tradition of liberation theology, Joerg Rieger of Vanderbilt Divinity School believes Christians need to be in the thick of political issues on the side of the poor and disadvantaged.
An Abingdon Press book series by Levine, an acclaimed Jewish scholar of the New Testament, has been a hit with Sunday school classes and other small groups, yielding her speaking invitations from many churches.