Welcome to the website of the Baltimore-Washington Area Reconciling United Methodists (B-WARM).
Monthly Meetings on the second Saturday of each month, no meetings in July or August 2008 - Read More
BWARM Conference - SAVE the DATE
EXTREME CHURCH -- EXTREME HOSPITALITY
October 4, 2008 - 8:30am to 4pm - Read more
Morning Keynote: Rev. Dr. Youth Hardman-Cromwell will speak on "Biblical Perspectives"
Documentary and Study Guide Available
From the Human Rights Campaign: "For The Bible Tells Me So: A Study Guide and Advocacy Training Curriculum" by Rev. Chris Glaser. Created to accompany the film For the Bible Tells Me So, this user- friendly guide will enable anyone to facilitate a moving conversation about the Bible, the church and LGBT people. It will empower you and participants to take these conversations to the next level and help create communities that move beyond acceptance to advocacy. The film can also be ordered through HRC.
2008 Annual Conference
General Conference Wrap-Up
"Actions of General Conference marginalize some people, delegates says" by Ralph Williams, member at Foundry UMC in Washington, DC.
General Conference is finished for another quadrennium, and our work for full inclusion of LGBT persons in the life of the church continues.
- Official GC website - watch video clips of highlights and plenary sessions, read news stories and view legislation
- Reconciling Ministries Network's GC Blog has links to lots of photos, specific legislation, and more
- Methodist Students for an All-Inclusive Church (MoSAIC)'s Blog
- Methodist Federation for Social Action Reflections on GC - and MFSA's GC Legislative Wrap-up
- Affirmation with daily publication Out
- UM NeXus Blogging at GC
BWARM members at General Conference.
Read more and view more pictures.
Call for a Reconciled United Methodist Connection
John Wesley preached that in a church faithful to Jesus’ teachings they would “let all people know whose disciples they are … (by) their love of one another.” (Of the Church, Sermons, Para. 30). Read more: Download for letter-sized paper or for legal-sized paper.
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