The Social Principles Project

19/10/2026

Mark your calendars for November 3rd at 6pm Central Time!
Join GCSRW and the General Commission on Religion and Race for a webinar exploring microaggressions and the ways the show up in our communities. Learning how to recognize and interrupt these patterns is an exercise in practicing our faith, where are all welcome, all are important, and all are beloved in the kin-dom of God.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/7LBdT5tATPuSHaIAwraNbw #/registration

15/10/2026

Agency boards approve unified agency legislation.

13/10/2026

Our sign today at the United Methodist Building:

OCTOBER IS PREGNANCY AND INFANCY LOSS MONTH

12/10/2026

We write about an event in one nation because it holds up a mirror to all of us. Every society, on every continent where our church lives, is tempted to answer violence with spectacle, to bless national power with the name of God, and to make a whole people pay for the crime of one. What is happenin...

09/10/2026

The UMC opposes the Death Penalty and, we can’t believe we have to say this, we definitely don’t support the live-streaming of ex*****ons.

What does The United Methodist Church say?

"Our commitment to the inherent dignity and worth of every person and our historic stance as United Methodists compels us to oppose capital punishment and the imposition of the death penalty. We, therefore, call for the abolition of the death penalty and urge individuals and congregations to educate themselves about the historical stance of the United Methodist Church and its predecessors." (Social Principles, Paragraph 163, Political Community, Section G)

Find out more >https://gbcs-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/11/97ea3efa-6f67-4acb-87ae-0e39c5031442.pdf

General Board of Church and Society

09/10/2026

06/10/2026

Bishop Connie Mitchell Shelton shares a message encouraging voting in the upcoming election. Jesus calls us to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind—and to love our neighbors […]

02/10/2026

Former lieutenant governor suspended from ministry | The Rev. Dale Caldwell resigned from elected office and now faces a United Methodist complaint over accusations of inappropriate behavior with women and ethics violations in his state governmental role. He denies the allegations.

https://www.umnews.org/en/news/former-lieutenant-governor-suspended-from-ministry

02/10/2026

1 in 3 women in the US will experience sexual violence in her life. Jane Doe is not an anomaly on Cornell's campus. She's sitting in your church pews. To put it plainly: churches cannot be complicit in quietly condoning our culture of sexual violence. Every church needs to say something. Every church needs to do something. Now is the time for pastors and lay leaders everywhere to speak up.

Say something on Sunday. If you don’t know where to start, start here: https://gcsrw.org/staff-reflections/say-something-sunday-the-church-cornell/