This session will focus on the impact that North Carolina’s failure to close the health insurance coverage gap through some sort of Medicaid expansion has on the physical, emotional, and financial health of the people of our state and on how people of faith can become involved in advocating for a North Carolina solution. The […]

People often turn to a faith leader when they are struggling or need guidance. Throughout the pandemic, we've heard how inaccessible affordable, available, safe, and culturally appropriate mental health care can be for clergy themselves. Elder Hanna Broome will reflect on the challenges and opportunities of having rural clergy receiving their own mental health care. […]

How are we called to participate in God’s freedom work in the world? Pastors and laity sometimes wrestle with how ordinary people of faith can help create equity in a culture that privileges some and suppresses others based on race, gender, class, and other intersecting differences. Join the Rev. Tex Sample for a live webinar […]

How are we called to participate in God’s freedom work in the world? Pastors and laity sometimes wrestle with how ordinary people of faith can help create equity in a culture that privileges some and suppresses others based on race, gender, class, and other intersecting differences. Join the Rev. Tex Sample for a live webinar […]

Jennifer Shecki-Shields of Discovery and Faith shares: “Today it is inevitable that developments in science will meet the practice of Christian faith if that faith is to have any cultural impact or relevance. Unfortunately, the church is not adequately meeting the challenges presented by the intersection of faith and science. The quality of the relationship between science and Christian […]

Bishop Palmer is excited to announce his next Leadership Clinic guest, Nadia Bolz-Weber, on September 17, 10a-12p EST. Nadia Bolz-Weber is a three-time New York Times bestselling author who has been called “a pastor for America’s outsiders.” The community of faith she planted in Denver—House for All Sinners and Saints—is a haven for a diverse community […]

Bishop Palmer is excited to announce his next Leadership Clinic guest, Nadia Bolz-Weber, on September 17, 10a-12p EST. Nadia Bolz-Weber is a three-time New York Times bestselling author who has been called “a pastor for America’s outsiders.” The community of faith she planted in Denver—House for All Sinners and Saints—is a haven for a diverse community […]

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School is hosting the second seminar in its annual seminar series “Health, Wholeness, and Humanity: The Stewardship of Creation as if Matter Mattered” with Brian Volck, MD, MFA. Brian Volck is a pediatrician who received his undergraduate degree in English Literature and his MD from Washington University in St. Louis […]

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School is hosting the second seminar in its annual seminar series “Health, Wholeness, and Humanity: The Stewardship of Creation as if Matter Mattered” with Brian Volck, MD, MFA. Brian Volck is a pediatrician who received his undergraduate degree in English Literature and his MD from Washington University in St. Louis […]

La Espiritualidad de la Resiliencia en la Comunidad Hispana y Latinx: Una experiencia de la Academia para la Formación Espiritual que será ofrecido en español y por internet usando la plataforma de Zoom.  Esta experiencia con una persona de la facultad, consistirá en seis sesiones, de medio día cada una. El impacto acumulativo de esta vivencia de varias […]

La Espiritualidad de la Resiliencia en la Comunidad Hispana y Latinx: Una experiencia de la Academia para la Formación Espiritual que será ofrecido en español y por internet usando la plataforma de Zoom.  Esta experiencia con una persona de la facultad, consistirá en seis sesiones, de medio día cada una. El impacto acumulativo de esta vivencia de varias […]

Zoom in with us Saturday, September 18, at 6 p.m. to watch and discuss the 60-minute documentary, Theirs is the Kingdom.The film follows the rare creation of a contemporary fresco mural inside the sanctuary of Haywood Street UMC in Asheville, NC. This is a painting not of the rich and powerful, but of people battling homelessness, addiction, and […]