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Reconciliation

Read excerpts on reconciliation from The Journey and Forgiveness & Reconciliation, two spiritual growth studies for 2011.

On the Mountaintop by Stephanie Greiner
03/05/2013 On a spiritual journey, United Methodist Women can help you reach your peak.

United Methodist Women Joins Ecumenical Call for Commonsense Gun Laws by Yvette Moore
01/17/2013 United Methodist Women joined more than 40 national faith groups signing a Jan. 14 ecumenical letter to both houses of the U.S. Congress asking for commonsense legislation to reduce gun violence.

Violence in Gaza: What United Methodist Women Supports in Israel-Palestine
11/29/2012 We grieve over this and call on United Methodist women to keep the conflict in your prayers and thoughts. United Methodist Women supports many projects in Israel-Palestine.

A Circle of Thanksgiving by Carol Lakota Eastin
11/01/2012 What does the national Thanksgving holiday mean for Native American peoples?

Responsively Yours: Break Stalemates to Peace by Harriett Jane Olson
10/01/2012 Have the tragic shootings around the country this year prompted you to prayer and action or are you stunned? Like Jesus’ lament in Luke 19; for we do not know the “things that make for peace.”

Celebrate the Contribution of Indigenous Peoples
08/07/2012 On August 9, 2012 the United Nations commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Please take time on this day to learn more about the current realities of Indigenous peoples.

Cutting-Edge Ministries and Commissioning of Deaconesses and Home Missioners by Mary Beth Coudal
04/17/2012 These women and men follow Jesus in ministering to those in the "margins of society." You can watch the April 29th service of commissioning online.

Beyond Labels by Jay Godfrey
03/09/2012 Seeking open dialogue and community in a divided world.

“Let’s Be Friends” by Bonnie Taylor
03/09/2012 It was a simple idea: United Methodist Women reaching out to Muslim women and saying, “Let’s be friends.”

Ubuntu Explorers Trip to Northern Ireland
02/27/2012 Join other United Methodist Women on an Ubuntu eXplorer Journey to Northern Ireland, September 14-23, 2012.

Reflecting on a Heroic Prophet: The Unfinished Work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bishop Kenneth L. Carder on ministrywith.org
01/12/2012 True heroes make us better by challenging our misplaced priorities, expanding our vision of a better world, and inspiring us to pursue the vision. Martin Luther King did that for a generation and contintues to inspire long after his death.

Responsively Yours: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" by Harriett Jane Olson
01/03/2012 Let us not give walls undue power. In this new year, let us dream of peace, but let us also commit ourselves anew to work for peace, and to declare the message of the love of God for all peoples on earth.

National Seminar: Mission Reconciliation by Leigh Rogers
01/03/2012 United Methodist Women taps U.S. civil rights history and new technology to engage the ministry of reconciliation in Birmingham, Alabama.

Women, War and Peace: Three Women Win the Nobel Prize for Peace
12/21/2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the first woman to be elected head of state in Africa and she ushered in peace after a 14-year civil war. Leymah Gbowee founded Women, Peace and Security Network Africa, and is known for organizing a women’s peace protest that included a “sex strike” until hostilities ended. Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist known as the “Mother of Revolution,” lived in a tent in a protest camp in Yemen and founded Women Journalist Without Chains.

Rural Women Panels Raise Issues on Food Security, Violence Against Women by Leigh Rogers
11/01/2011 In observance of International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day, United Methodist Women co-organized two panel discussions highlighting issues important to rural women around the world at the Church Center for the United Nations, Oct. 14, 2011.

Women, War & Peace by Tara Barnes
10/11/2011 Join United Methodist Women members around the country in watching this important series that highlights the importance of women’s voices in conflict and the necessity of ending war if we are to ever live in the world of peace God intended for us.

Women's Division Board Meeting Wrapup by Leigh Rogers
10/11/2011 The Women’s Division board of directors approved the 2012 budget, received the criteria and application form for incoming national mission institutions that will be used to approve new partnerships, and approved a plan for a consultation with Native American Women in 2012, among other highlights at the division’s annual meeting, October 6-11 in New York City.

Directors Celebrate Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee by Linda Bloom
10/10/2011 Women’s Division directors had a discussion the following evening with Abigail Disney, executive producer for “Women, War & Peace,” a five-part series on PBS, and producer of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” a documentary in which Leymah Gbowee is a central figure.

Reflections of My Travels With Women's Division to Japan for the Ceremony of the 66th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima by Annabelle Bricker
09/21/2011 My 11-day trip to the other side of the world was an amazing time, from staying with my incredibly loving and hospitable host family, to having a giant sleepover at Jogakuin University with 40 of the nicest girls I’ve ever met, to attending the incredible seminar on peace and reconciliation, to participating in the moving anniversary ceremony.

British Methodist Church Leaders Call for Political Progress 10 Years Since 9/11
09/08/2011 A decade on from the 9/11 attacks British Church leaders are calling for the Government to examine its use of military force in response to violent extremism.

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