Jan 15, 2021
Bishop LaTrelle Easterling is the episcopal
servant and leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, and has
an office in Washington D.C. She reflects on the events
of January 6th and looks toward Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
and Inauguration. Bishop Easterling is the first woman to lead
the Baltimore-Washington Conference and was appointed in September
2016, following her election to the episcopacy that July.
Prior to being elected, she served as
Dean of the Cabinet of the New England Conference and as a
superintendent, leading 57 congregations in the Boston Hope
District. She was ordained a Deacon in
1995 and an Elder in 1997, and was pastor of Union UMC in Boston’s
historic South End, Pearl Street UMC in Brockton, Mass., and Old
West Church, UM, in Boston.
You can find her statement
condemning the violence at the U.S.
Capitol, here.
To watch the film discussed in
this episode, click here.