Theology and Education

A lawsuit over United Methodist control of Southern Methodist University in Dallas has reached the Texas Supreme Court. The South Central Jurisdictional Conference of The United Methodist Church filed the lawsuit in 2019 after the university’s board of trustees voted to change the university’s articles of incorporation without the jurisdictional conference’s approval. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons.

High court hears case over church control of SMU

The Texas Supreme Court heard arguments to determine if Southern Methodist University could change its articles of incorporation without a United Methodist jurisdiction’s approval.

Worship

Ask The UMC: How do the Sunday readings for Advent differ from year to year?

The Advent readings pursue three different themes in the three different years.

Mission and Ministry

Participants and facilitators of 2024 ASCEND, a global leadership development training for Methodist young adults in Asia, jump for a photo at Hope Vocational School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 4. Photo by the Rev. Thomas E. Kim, UM News.

Training helps Asian young adults to ‘soar high’

Methodist young adults from Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia and Vietnam gathered Nov. 4-8 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for 2024 ASCEND, a global leadership development training event.

Theology and Education

The Rev. Valentine Cimpaye, Bujumbura District superintendent, stands in front of one of the destroyed buildings of the Lycée Technique Mgr. Jean Alfred Ndoricimpa secondary school in Bujumbura, Burundi. The United Methodist school was severely damaged by recent storms. Also pictured are Niyomwungere Juvénal (left), Lycée’s technical director, and Makarakiza Obed (right), district lay leader. Photo by Jerome Ndayisenga, UM News.

Storm destroys United Methodist school in Burundi

Founded in 2022, the church school is the only secondary school in the Rubirizi region, home to around 21,000 people.

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