Cecil and Janice – Unlikely pair writes of leading Glide Memorial UMC

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They are the odd couple of United Methodism, but the ministry results can hardly be questioned. The Rev. Cecil Williams, a destined-to-be-a-pastor African American and extreme extrovert, and Janice Mirikitani, a Japanese American introvert and religious skeptic, led Glide Memorial UMC in San Francisco to become one of the UMC’s largest and most service-oriented churches—and a rare liberal megachurch. They married along the way, and now, having stepped aside from top leadership of the church, they’ve written a memoir called Beyond the Possible. Ask what it was like to write [...]

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