Friends say Bishop Marshall L. “Jack” Meadors Jr., who died May 25, was a compassionate leader and dedicated activist on issues like child poverty, war and women’s rights.
Bishop Robert Schnase, who oversees the Rio Texas and New Mexico conferences, is a longtime, avid birder. In a three-minute video reflection, he speaks about how he embraced the pastime and how it has become, for him, a metaphor for the spiritual life.
Harold “Hal” Recinos, a faculty member at Perkins School of Theology, started early reading poetry and has become a published poet himself, influenced by William Carlos Williams and Langston Hughes.
A United Methodist pastor and a member of one of his churches were part of an eight-person living donor chain that enabled four people to get a lifesaving kidney transplant recently. Jessica Brodie has the story.
