Diversity

After regionalization, church must prioritize unity

Regionalization can make The United Methodist Church more just, nimble and truly global. The crucial question now is how we remain one church.

Social Concerns

Honoring our differences while celebrating unity

As The United Methodist Church seeks to embody unity, it must also reckon with the distinct realities and contexts that shape its people.

General Church

The Rev. Ginger Gaines-Cirelli. Photo courtesy of the author.

Putting hope in the 'harder thing'

Worldwide regionalization allows the worldwide church to remain United Methodist in a new connectional way.

Local Church

Children play before Sunday services begin on March 10 in the “prayground” of Bethany United Methodist Church in Smyrna, Ga. Church officials removed some pews at the front of the church to add the play area so parents could attend services while keeping watch on their kids. Photo by Jim Patterson, UM News.

Church revives itself with community engagement

Bethany United Methodist Church suffered from declining membership because of an aging population that no longer reflected its neighborhood. But the congregation is doing something about it.

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