Clergywomen

Hollering for Change: Black clergywomen support one another

The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler speaks with the leadership team of the Black Clergywomen of The United Methodist Church, which held its annual meeting July 31-Aug. 2 in Washington, D.C.

Church Leadership

Black Clergywomen meet for fellowship, mentorship, empowerment

The Black Clergywomen of The United Methodist Church caucus gathered in Washington July 31-Aug. 2 for its national meeting. The meeting was an invitation to take off the Superwoman cape and simply “Be You.”

General Church

The Lewis Center for Church Leadership’s second study of disaffiliations is just out. Both studies look at U.S. churches leaving The United Methodist Church under Paragraph 2553 of the denomination’s Book of Discipline. This graph is part of the new study. The green bars represent the percentage of United Methodist churches by jurisdiction in 2019. The yellow bars represent the percentage of disaffiliations by jurisdiction as of the end of June 2023. The Southeastern and South Central jurisdictions together had 70 percent of disaffiliations, but that percentage is down from an earlier Lewis Center study. Graphic courtesy of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership.

Study shows shift in disaffiliations

A second Lewis Center for Church Leadership report is out, looking at how churches leaving The United Methodist Church compare to those staying.

Bishops

Bishop Minerva Carcaño addresses a rally of United Methodists in support of immigration reform at the Convention Center Plaza outside the 2016 General Conference in Portland, Ore. Carcaño, who is facing a church trial on undisclosed charges, talked to United Methodist News about her 47 years of ministry and what The United Methodist Church means to her. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

As trial date set, bishop reflects on ministry

Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño discusses her decades of ministry with The United Methodist Church and her experience with its complaint process, as she faces a church trial set for August.

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