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What happens immediately after a person dies?
Home > Questions? > Beliefs and Social Issues > What happens immediately after a person dies?
(last updated: 12/14/2006)
Frequently asked question about the United Methodist belief in heaven and hell.
Book Reviews
Home > Christian Educators Fellowship > Leadership Resources > Book Reviews
(last updated: 8/31/2006)
Book ReviewTeaching the Bible in the Church
Can United Methodists use the sign of the cross or is this a Catholic only practice?
Home > Questions? > Beliefs and Social Issues > Can United Methodists use the sign of the cross or is this a Catholic only practice?
(last updated: 1/10/2006)
Can United Methodists use the sign of the cross or is this a Catholic only practice?
The UMC accepts cremation and organ donation. How is this consistent with resurrection of the body?
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(last updated: 1/10/2006)
The United Methodist Church accepts cremation and organ donation. How is this consistent with resurrection of the body?
Alzheimer's
Home > My Spiritual Journey > Alzheimer's
(last updated: 11/22/2004)
UMC.org, the official online ministry of The United Methodist Church, has developed this feature on Alzheimer's specifically for visitors seeking further understanding, as well as resources developed by the Church.
Divine Delight in Dementia Visits
Home > Tools For Ministry > Divine Delight in Dementia Visits
(last updated: 11/18/2004)
Today in the U.S., more than 4 million people have Alzheimer's disease and related forms of dementia. That number will climb dramatically in coming years. They are our mothers and fathers, whom Scripture commands us to honor. They are our church and community elders, whom the Old and New Testaments call us to respect and provide for.
At Family Holiday Celebrations, Some Mourn Those Absent
Home > Tools For Ministry > At Family Holiday Celebrations, Some Mourn Those Absent
(last updated: 10/29/2004)
(UMCom) – Virginia Bender remembers the first family photo she took after her daughter committed suicide. It was during the winter holidays. “Someone was missing,” she says. Bender, 72, a member of First United Methodist Church in Portland, Ore., has since lost a son, and just this year she lost her second husband. So she is preparing for another tough holiday season. She plans to attend classes at her church for those grieving a loss, and she will cook Thanksgiving dinner for her four surviving children and her second husband’s four children.
Life Goes on For Two Parents After Each Loses a Son to Suicide
Home > Faith in Action > Life Goes on For Two Parents After Each Loses a Son to Suicide
(last updated: 10/8/2004)
Clark Taylor, a recovering alcoholic, was 33 when he killed himself on a cold January day in 1992, leaving behind a wife, 3-year-old daughter and mother Judy Collins to wonder why and forever imagine if only.
Speculation Mounts on What Awaits Pets in the Afterlife
Home > My Spiritual Journey > Speculation Mounts on What Awaits Pets in the Afterlife
(last updated: 10/5/2004)
(UMCom) -- Do all dogs really go to heaven? No longer a quaint expression, the question is generating serious debate as religious leaders and theologians respond to Americans’ growing devotion to their pets with books, Web sites and church services where animals are blessed and their deaths mourned.
Eric Renegar's Suicide Letters
Home > Faith in Action > What Happened to Your Face? Scars Tell of a Will to Live > Eric Renegar's Suicide Letters
(last updated: 10/1/2004)
Eric Renegar's Suicide Letters
What Happened to Your Face? Scars Tell of a Will to Live
Home > Faith in Action > What Happened to Your Face? Scars Tell of a Will to Live
(last updated: 10/1/2004)
(UMCom) -- When Eric Renegar was 18 years old, he put a .30-caliber deer rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. For hours on that cold November night he lay on the ground beside his father’s gravestone trying to die. “I didn’t try to kill myself because I really wanted to die, as much as I just did not want to go on living the way I was living,” confesses Renegar, now 32. “I couldn’t see that there was going to be a solution to the problems in my life.”
The Transforming Power of Illness: Three Cancer Survivors Find Strength in Faith
Home > My Spiritual Journey > The Transforming Power of Illness: Three Cancer Survivors Find Strength in Faith
(last updated: 7/9/2004)
The common ground in the lives of Ray Buckley, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Caroline Hale is that the illness that once wreaked havoc on their bodies has become medicine for their souls. Ray is a writer of children’s stories. Beth is a composer of songs. And Caroline is a teen-ager who has barely begun to create her own life. They each have different tales to tell, but one chapter in each begins with the same transforming words: You have cancer.
Garden for Lost Children
Home > Video Briefs > 2004 Archives > Garden for Lost Children
(last updated: 6/9/2004)
A memorial garden at First United Methodist Church, Franklin, Tenn., has turned grief into a living tribute to children who have died. Nestled among stone walls, plants and trees, the spiritual oasis is maintained and expanded by volunteers.
Helping Children Cope with Grief Aim of Camp Paz
Home > Press Center > Archives > 2004 Archives > March > Helping Children Cope with Grief Aim of Camp Paz
(last updated: 3/31/2004)
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Laughter usually comes easily to children. But for kids dealing with the death of a loved one, learning to deal with grief comes a little harder. At Camp Paz, help is available for a few of the hundreds of thousands of children affected each year by the death of someone close. At a recent session of this interfaith effort, held at First United Methodist Church, Phoenix, even the games and crafts had a purpose—restoring hope.
Helping Children Grieve
Home > Video Briefs > 2004 Archives > Helping Children Grieve
(last updated: 3/31/2004)
Helping Children Grieve
Texas United Methodists Reflect on Columbia Tragedy
Home > Press Center > Archives > 2004 Archives > January > Texas United Methodists Reflect on Columbia Tragedy
(last updated: 3/31/2004)
HEMPHILL, Texas—United Methodists in this tiny East Texas town, where recovery efforts after the Columbia space shuttle crash were concentrated, are preparing to mark the first anniversary of the tragedy.
Amid Alzheimer's
Home > Video Briefs > 2003 Archives > Amid Alzheimer's
(last updated: 3/9/2004)
His family had teasingly called him “the absent-minded professor,” but over time it became something more—Alzheimer’s. Al Rhodes-Wickett was blindsided by the diagnosis. The 55-year-old United Methodist minister was a gifted composer and stay-at- home dad. Now his wife and children say the hardest thing is watching the person they know disappear
Adult ministry leaders broaden generational understanding
Home > United Methodist News Service > News Archives > 2004 > March 2004 > Adult ministry leaders broaden generational understanding
(last updated: 3/2/2004)
Retiring baby boomers do not consider themselves over the hill, and they have redefined the word %22young,%22 according to an author on aging trends.
Small Texas town remembers Columbia disaster
Home > United Methodist News Service > News Archives > 2004 > January 2004 > Small Texas town remembers Columbia disaster
(last updated: 1/27/2004)
HEMPHILL, Texas (UMNS) — The quiet skies over this small Texas town exploded one year ago when the space shuttle Columbia crashed, killing all seven astronauts on board.
Battle with Alzheimer’s draws family together
Home > United Methodist News Service > Features > Multimedia Coverage > Multimedia Coverage Archives > Battle with Alzheimer’s draws family together
(last updated: 12/30/2003)
Like a computer virus, Alzheimer’s disease has invaded the home of a California clergy couple, Al and Sharon Rhodes-Wickett, and turned their lives upside down.
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