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Jim Patterson
Jim Patterson is as United Methodist News reporter based in Nashville.
Vanderbilt’s new Lawson Institute advances nonviolence work
One of the most celebrated and influential United Methodists is lending his name to an institute at Vanderbilt University that will promote and study nonviolence....
May 16, 2022
Jackie Robinson’s Methodist faith
Besieged by death threats, racial abuse, and physical danger, somehow Jackie Robinson never publicly lost his composure during the 1947 Major League Baseball season, when he integrated the league.<...
August 23, 2021
Independent film aims to dispel myths about Korean Americans
Happy Cleaners, an independent film set in the diverse Flushing neighborhood in Queens, New York, is about a Korean American family that owns a struggling dry-cleaning business....
May 17, 2021
Iliff School of Theology reckons with grisly past
For 80 years, a book about Christianity bound in the tanned skin of a murdered Lenape Indian was displayed in a glass case outside the library at the Iliff School of Theology, a United Methodist se...
November 2, 2020
HBCU presidents encourage Black people to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trial
On a recent Sunday, photos of two Black men graced the sanctuary of First Grace United Methodist Church in New Orleans as Shawn Moses Anglim spoke during “a little children’s moment.”...
October 19, 2020
New children’s book highlights ‘Father of Gospel Music’
Disbelief is often the response Carole Boston Weatherford gets from children about her books featuring notable African Americans....
April 6, 2020
United Methodist assembly meets to make a decision on sexuality and the church
There are multiple options on the table at the special meeting of the top legislative body for the 12.6-million-member global denomination.
February 19, 2019
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