Seminary president says scholarships for clergy-in-training remain a wise investment for The United Methodist Church and shouldn’t be subject to big cuts.
In wide-ranging joint board meetings at Emory University, officials with the United Methodist boards of Global Ministries and Higher Education plotted an ambitious future despite the continuing challenge of diminishing resources.
When Angella Patricia Current-Felder was born, her father suggested naming her after the American abolitionist. “That started me on my path,” she said. “I have been trying to be Sojourner Truth all my life.”
The United Methodist Church and its ecumenical Methodist partners face the challenge of shifting from centuries of U.S. dominance and the opportunity to reflect better the multinational, multicultural nature of the church universal.
