Over the past 12 months, United Methodists have marked the passing of a storied NFL coach, the denomination’s first Asian American bishop and a pastor named Bible. Heather Hahn reports for United Methodist News. Heather Hahn reports for UM News.
The walls of Rev. Dr. Shelley Best’s office at the Greater Hartford Arts Council are lined with her own artwork and prayers, which, in her estimation, amount to the same thing.
“When I paint, I pray,” says Best, pastor of the Redeemer’s A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion church in Plainville, and, since April 2022, CEO of the Greater Hartford Arts Council.
The Hartford is partnering with Earthwatch, an international environmental organization, on a citizen-science project to document pollinators with the goal of understanding if key species are declining and how climate change may be affecting pollinator populations. The Hartford is collaborating with the Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association, which.