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By Jessica Love Hayoung Kang The daughter of a single mother with breast cancer, Hayoung Kang’s own traumatic experiences inspired her call to ministry. Now, as an Angella P. Current-Felder Women of Color (WOC) Scholar, she is empowered to create political theology and philosophy to help others navigate trauma. The...

By Jessica Love Rev. Patricia Bonilla Rev. Patricia Bonilla learned at an early age how important it is to see color and acknowledge differences. “In high school, I was one of two Mexican students in my whole grade,” she said. Now Bonilla, who is an ordained deacon in the Northern...

By Jessica Love Dr. Lisa Dellinger Dr. Lisa Dellinger recently earned her Ph.D. in theology, history and ethics from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, making her the 49th graduate of the Angella P. Current-Felder Women of Color Scholars program. Dellinger, who is working toward ordination as a United Methodist...

On August 20, 2020, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) began #ColortheConversation as a new discussion and listening campaign to address racism in higher education and ministry. The campaign will elevate and center the voices and experiences of people of color in our agency and affiliated institutions....

Today, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) launches a new guiding structure for its long-held mission of preparing leaders for the Church, the academy and the world. “Our Road Reimagined” is the result of a months-long process to survey and remodel the agency. This effort included a...

By Jessica Love Dr. Ivy Taylor, President of Rust College Former mayor of San Antonio, Texas Dr. Ivy Taylor, was recently elected as Rust College’s first woman president. She is the 12th president in the college’s 154-year history. Rust College, founded in 1866 in Holly Spring, Mississippi, is the oldest...

Current-Felder retired from GBHEM in 2010. When the United Methodist Black Clergywomen’s Caucus met for the first time in 1987, there were almost no women of color to represent their voices in religious higher education. Dr. Angella P. Current-Felder, then the executive director of the Office of Loans and Scholarships...

Dr. Yed Angoran at GBHEM. Photo by Kimberly Lord. The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) mourns the loss of its dedicated friend and colleague, Dr. Yed Esaïe Angoran. He passed away on Saturday, June 13 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. “Dr. Angoran has had an immense presence and...

View the recording | Download the slides "Leading in Crisis" e-panel discussion with Bishop Grant Hagiya of the California-Pacific Conference and Bishop Ken Carter of the Florida Conference. Our discussion topic is, "Feeling like you didn't sign up for this, and other pastoral realities of 2020." A GBHEM E-Panel Discussion...

To our constituencies and communities, The events in Minneapolis and across America since May 25 have wrested us from one crisis and plunged us into another. Still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, our communities have now been confronted with graphic imagery of the murder of George Floyd and the continued...