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Church Leadership
The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler (right) interviews Bishop Dee Williamston of the Louisiana Conference, the first Black woman elected to the episcopacy in the South Central Jurisdiction. Zoom video image courtesy of the Rev. Butler, via YouTube.

Hollering for Change: An interview with Bishop Dee Williamston
The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler interviews newly elected Bishop Dee Williamston of the Louisiana Conference as part of a series highlighting Black women “firsts” across the denomination.
Immigration
The Revs. Joel Hortiales (center, in blue blazer) and David Farley (to Hortiales' right) join parishioners of the Border Church in Tijuana, Mexico, as they lift their arms skyward beneath the fence that marks the border with the U.S. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Methodists participate in movement to preserve border park
Friends of Friendship Park, led by a United Methodist pastor, continues to defend the preservation of the oceanfront park, located on the border between Mexico and the U.S.
Bishops
Bishop Minerva Carcaño presides over a May 19 session of the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. The United Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women is asking to serve as a monitor in the church complaint process involving Carcaño, who has been suspended for more than a year. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Agency seeks role in complaint against bishop
The United Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women is asking to serve as a monitor in the church complaint process involving Bishop Minerva Carcaño, who has been suspended for more than a year.