LEAD 2023 Registration and Speaker Application Open Now!

LEAD 2023 Registration and Speaker Application Open Now!

REGISTER NOW FOR LEAD 2023 and APPLY TO SPEAK UMC LEAD is excited to announce that registration for the LEAD 2023 Conference in Asheville is now live! LEAD will be held in Asheville, NC January 22-25, 2023. The host hotel will be Cambria Hotel Downtown Asheville and...
Dear Church

Dear Church

By Hannah Shanks Dear Church, I need you to say something. I know it’s hard for you, too. I know you’re being gaslighted and abused like the rest of us. But in this relationship, you’re the elder. You have more power. You have hundreds, if not thousands of years’...
I Need the Church to Fight for Me

I Need the Church to Fight for Me

By Charlie Ludden I try to spend my time focusing on the changes I can make, and try not to focus on the things that I can’t control. It is so easy to get bogged down with all the trouble, pain, and heartache that we see in the media every single day. I try my best to...
What is Poetry For?

What is Poetry For?

By Kenneth J. Pruitt It’s been almost ten years since I was rejected from every single MFA writing program in poetry that I applied to. Having been waitlisted at two of them, but not even high enough on the list to feel like I had a shot, I was obviously disappointed...
Giving Up The Ghost, Part III: Holy Spirit

Giving Up The Ghost, Part III: Holy Spirit

By Kenneth Pruitt In May of last year over at Ministry Matters, I began calling us to create a new theology of White allyship, a practical theology that proclaims, without equivocation, that Black lives matter. We now arrive at perhaps the least understood and least...
Welcome to the New UMC LEAD

Welcome to the New UMC LEAD

By Brandon Lazarus In January of 2014 we launched the Facebook page and Twitter account for UMC LEAD. There was nothing there except a short description that said, “UMC LEAD exists to be engaged in conversation around leadership, theology, worship, mission, and...