Items about social justice and/or spirituality that may be of interest to United Methodist Women.
Emphasis is on current Mission School topics (The Bible and Human Sexuality, Climate Justice, and Latin America) & the Charter for Racial Justice.
Opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect official viewpoints of UMW at any level.
“The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both” Ursula K. LeGuin
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Mary Fletcher
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (1739 - 1815) was an early Methodist class leader and lay preacher as well as being a close friend of John Wesley, who wrote to her saying that she had an "exceptional call" to preach. In 1763 she and Sarah Ryan opened a home in Leytonstone, England that served as a church, school, orphanage, hospital, and halfway house for the most destitute of London. She married John Fletcher, a Church of England pastor who sympathized with the Methodist movement and was considered to be the successor to John Wesley until his death in 1785.
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