Reflections on recent events at the Arkansas Annual Conference Session
“Tension” is not an adjective fit enough to describe the days we are living. We are walking on eggshells within the United Methodist Church and in our communities and neighborhoods. Coupled with the word “tension,” we can add such words as frustration, anxiety, and division, which only worsens matters. We feel hopeless as we watch the events that unfolded in Buffalo, Uvalde, Philadelphia, Tulsa, and so many others of our communities devastated and victimized again and again through the violence of guns. We only hear “thoughts and prayers” from our elected officials without any action.