United Women in Faith: Faith Talks

Listen in on this special edition of Faith Talks on the future of United Methodist Women and the New Wineskins Campaign preparing members for exciting changes on the horizon that will energize women to turn their love into action for women, children for another 150 years.

This special edition of Faith Talks will feature a panel of United Methodist Women board and national leaders including CEO Harriett Jane Olson, UMW CEO and general secretary.

Jesus said, “No one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”

That’s just what United Methodist Women is doing through new and improved programs and a rebrand launch set for 2022 designed to nurture current members and attract new women!

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Hispanic Heritage Month is a celebration of the contributions that Americans tracing their roots to Spain, Mexico, Central America, South American and the Spanish-speaking nations of the Caribbean have made to U.S. society and culture.

Our guests for this edition of Faith Talks will include Rev. Lyssette Perez, president of MARCHA, the Hispanic caucus of The United Methodist Church.

No matter who you are or where you are from, you are bound to experience grief. Certainly, some people have more than their share, but no one is exempt. In a period where most can acknowledge the grief associated with a prolonged global pandemic and corresponding societal disruptions, we are excited for you to listen in on this Faith Talks conversation.

Our guest is the Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson, who will discuss her newest book Sisters in Mourning: Daughters Reflecting on Care, Loss and Meaning. Rev. Dr. Cari and her co-authors write a much-needed treatise on grieving that which we have lost and those who have lost.

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Listen in to this Faith Talks conversation as we discuss honoring labor, before and after Labor Day.
Our guests are Harriett Jane Olson, General Secretary and CEO of United Methodist Women, and co-chairs of The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Bishop William J. Barber II.

With Back-to-School season upon us, listen in as we discuss how families can prepare to return to school, the learning loss that may have occurred due to the pandemic, and the resources needed to support children, families, and educators.

“Once again, the Global Media Monitoring Project demonstrates the shocking invisibility of women in the world’s news. If some of these preliminary results bring rays of hope – a slight increase in women’s voices as subjects and sources in most media genres, a higher proportion of stories reported by women on television – overall they show that today’s ‘newsmakers’ are still overwhelmingly male. ... Whose stories do the media tell? Whose do they ignore? Why is change so slow? With a perspective now spanning 25 years, the full report of this most recent GMMP will be eagerly anticipated.” —Margaret Gallagher, feminist scholar and GMMP pioneer

Join us for a conversation featuring Dr. Glory Dharmaraj, president of the World Association for Christian Communication (North America), a sponsor of the Global Media Monitoring Project. We know you will enjoy hearing her theological perspective on the importance of analyzing portrayals of women in the media.

Previous Faith Talks conversations are available on our website at http://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/FaithTalks.

Despite increased attention to the mass and over-incarceration of Black men, the plight of criminalized Black women and girls remains overlooked, underreported and under analyzed. Reversing this troubling trend is the goal of this year’s adult Mission Study, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.

On this episode of Faith Talks we discuss Pushout with the Rev. Vanessa M. Williams, author of the leader’s guide for the study at this year’s Mission u events.

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Each year at Mission u events around the country, adults, children, and youth prepare their hearts and minds for faithful living and response to needs of the world. Join the next Faith Talks event on June 3 at 2 pm ET as we talk with some of the writers and planners of the 2021 Spiritual Growth Studies being offered at Mission u events this year.

Our guests include:
*Amanda Meisenheimer, author of the study guide for Bearing Witness in the Kin-dom: Living Into the Church’s Moral Witness through Radical Discipleship, this year’s adult spiritual growth study.
*Jay Godfrey, Transformative Education and Training Specialist for United Methodist Women and author of Becoming Peacemakers in a Culture of Violence, this year’s youth study, and
*Sue Raymond, author of Responding to Violence, this year’s children’s study.

Visit http://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/FaithTalks to find out more and register for upcoing Faith Talks events.

Join us for a Faith Talks conversation about Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Sophia K. R Agtarap, Director of Communications at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Ainise Isama’u, United Methodist Women Board President.

As the COVID-19 pandemic slowly comes to an end, and we begin to sense light at the end of the tunnel, it is a good time to reflect on what we have learned over the past 15 months. That is why we are excited for this Faith Talks conversation: “One Year Later: Learning, Living and Loving During the Pandemic

We will be joined by the following guests:
*Chantilly Mers, United Methodist Women Lead for Leadership Development Days and Mission u.
*Emily Jones, United Methodist Women Executive for Racial Justice/School to Prison Pipeline Lead
*Rev. Dionne Boissiere, UMW Church Center for United Nations Chaplain
*Elizabeth Chun Hye Lee, United Methodist Women Climate Justice/Just Energy for All Lead

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