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09/03/2026

Grow in your understanding of baptism and lifelong discipleship with the revised By Water and the Spirit Study Guide.

With six teaching sessions, thoughtful commentary, discussion guidance, and the full text of By Water and the Spirit, this updated resource is ideal for churches, classes, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of baptism in the United Methodist tradition.

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09/03/2026

This revised and updated study guide for By Water and the Spirit — The United Methodist Church's official teaching on baptism — explores this and other questions while helping us live more fully as God's baptized people. This practical resource for group study offers an opportunity to claim baptism as a lived reality that shapes our identity, grounds our faith, and calls us into a life of discipleship.

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What does it mean to belong to God through baptism? This revised and updated study guide for By Water and the Spirit – The United Methodist Church's official teaching on baptism – explores this and other questions while helping us live more fully as God's baptized people. This practical resource...

09/03/2026

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09/03/2026

In this month's journal, Bishop Héctor A. Burgos-Núñez reminds us that openness to surprise can become a pathway to deeper discipleship in a reflection adapted from the foreword to The Upper Room Disciplines 2027—available now.

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When Curiosity Becomes Discipleship

08/31/2026

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08/27/2026

The Upper Room is honored to be part of a special issue of the Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, bringing together historically prominent spiritual formation organizations and contemporary leaders in Christian spiritual formation.

In “For the Sake of the World,” Johnny Sears, Executive Director of The Upper Room Programs, and Lindsay Gray, Executive Director of The Upper Room Editions, reflect on The Upper Room’s history and evolution, its influence on the Protestant Spiritual Formation Movement, and the ways it continues to contribute to the work of spiritual formation today.

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The Protestant Spiritual Formation Movement is an ongoing movement of God’s people seeking to faithfully respond...