Greater Good Group
INTEGRATING SOCIAL PRINCIPLES INTO OUR CHURCH AND SOCIETY
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GREATER GOOD GROUP OPPORTUNITIES
- Braver Angels: Families & Politics
Space is limited! Register Here!
Sunday, November 8, 2026, 2:00-5:00pm | WUMC
Family relationships are becoming casualties of our toxic political environment. Family members are having nasty political arguments, avoiding each other, or even cutting off lifetime relationships.
If you want to preserve important family bonds while still being true to your
values and political beliefs, this workshop will offer you:- Insight into why family differences over politics are uniquely challenging;
- Recognition of common roles that family members play in political conversations (for example, the Gladiator, the Defender, and the Sniper);
- Strategies and skills for handling family political differences in a constructive way.
- HART Multifaith Thanksgiving Service
Sunday, November 22, 7:00pm
Walsingham Academy (1100 Jamestown Rd)
The Historic Area Religions Together invite you to this 9th annual community-wide Thanksgiving service. Many different faith communities in the Williamsburg area will help lead the service from their religious perspective. All are welcome!
The Social Principles of the United Methodist Church represent “prayerful and earnest efforts . . . to speak to issues in the contemporary world from a sound biblical and theological foundation that is in keeping with the best of our United Methodist traditions.” In addition, they are “a call to faithfulness and to social engagement and intended to be instructive” as well as a challenge to “all members of The United Methodist Church to engage in deliberative reflection and encourage intentional dialogue between faith and practice.”
The Greater Good Group includes WUMC members who are intentionally seeking to live into the Social Principles and to invite the greater congregation to reflect on these values and respond faithfully to meet the needs of the greater good.
GREATER GOOD GROUP LINKS AND AFFILIATIONS
The United Methodist Social Principles
United Methodist General Board of Church and Society
HART - Historic Area Religions Together
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
United Methodist General Commission on the Status & Role of Women
United Methodist General Commission on Religion and Race
For more information about the Greater Good Group,
contact Deacon Troy Sims (
or 757-229-1771, x108).
