Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
May 1, 2024
With every event of gun violence, does the Spirit tug at you to do something? Yet what? And how? And do I have the courage and skill to do it? Or… I’ve been working on this — how do I become more effective?
If these questions call to you, the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship invites you — and perhaps others from your church — to attend the inaugural James Atwood Institute for Congregational Courage at the Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center in Abiquiu, New Mexico, August 22-25. Honoring the late Presbyterian prophet of gun violence prevention, James Atwood, the Institute will offer intense continuing education for clergy and lay leaders in a range of educational, pastoral and action strategies for gun violence prevention mission in the local congregation.
May 1, 2024
Membership had gone from 1,400 to about 160 over the decades. Maintaining a 10-acre campus, with a tall-steeple sanctuary built in 1950, drained money and energy. Church leaders struggled with the implications of closing or merging.
It’s not a new story.
However, Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, is writing a new chapter not only in a nontraditional place, but with new friends and missions.
May 1, 2024
Terry Stokes, who wrote the upcoming book “Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People,” said during a recent “A Matter of Faith” podcast that he wrote the book to help people “look at anarchy and grab insights and inspiration for how to reshape our theology and our practice within our communities and our society.”
April 30, 2024
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of Public Witness joined with more than 100 additional immigrant, refugee, human rights and humanitarian organizations urging Congress to introduce and pass legislation that supports reinstating funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA. The letter calls it a “moral and strategic failure” to suspend funding during a period of catastrophe and extreme need.
April 30, 2024
Once worlds away, Juliet Owuor [ō-war] and Maggie Collins now find themselves mere inches apart.
The two roommates share a small New York City apartment with two other young adults — but that’s not all they share.
April 30, 2024
For nearly 30 years, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) through its Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) has worked to engage corporations to adopt better and more just environmental policies and practices to mitigate the escalating impact of climate change.
April 30, 2024
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival announced Monday that it will once again hold an assembly and march in Washington, D.C., to call attention to the plight of poor and low-wage workers, push for moral public policies and encourage people to vote.
April 29, 2024
Dr. Mark Ward and the Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Bullock, two retiring administrators at the University of Dubuque, were anything but retiring Saturday, speaking to graduates during commencement exercises at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary with passion and honesty.
April 29, 2024
In October 2023, Pittsburgh commemorated the five-year anniversary of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 people dead and the city searching for answers to what remains the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
April 28, 2024
World Central Kitchen, which last week honored seven colleagues killed during an April 1 Israeli airstrike in Gaza, will resume operations in Gaza Monday with a Palestinian team delivering food to address widespread hunger, including in the north.
제226회 총회 대의원들이 오 목사 지명에 대해서 이번 여름 투표할 것이다
April 26, 2024
마이크 퍼거슨 | 미국장로교 뉴스 서비스
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총회 사무국에서 중간공의회 사역 디렉터이자 부서기를 맡고 있는 오지현 목사는 정서기 지명 위원회에 의해서 미국장로교 차기 정서기로 지명되었다.
Comisionados a la 226a Asamblea General votarán en la nominación de Oh este verano.
April 26, 2024
por Mike Ferguson | Servicio Presbiteriano de Noticias
LOUISVILLE
La Rvda. Jihyun Oh, directora de Ministerios para Concilios Intermedios y Secretaria Permanente Asociada de la Oficina de la Asamblea General, ha sido seleccionada por el Comité de Nominaciones para ser la próxima Secretaria Permanente de la Asamblea General de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.).
April 26, 2024
In Colombia, the Protestant evangelical churches and Christian organizations that are part of the Inter-Church Dialogue for Peace — DiPaz — have been organizing for about 10 years, working to overcome violence and achieve peace through dialogue based on an understanding of the gospel that calls us to commit to nonviolence and antimilitarism, the search for truth and justice that make reconciliation possible in our country.
Commissioners to the 226th General Assembly will vote on Oh’s nomination this summer
April 26, 2024
Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE
The Rev. Jihyun Oh, director of Mid Council Ministries and an Associate Stated Clerk in the Office of the General Assembly, is the selection of the Stated Clerk Nomination Committee to be the next Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
April 25, 2024
Four Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastors were among those invited to the Washington National Cathedral for a moving service remembering the seven World Central Kitchen workers killed on April 1 by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
April 25, 2024
The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, a Presbyterian pastor who co-founded the Poor People’s Campaign and directs the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights & Social Justice, took 75 minutes Wednesday evening for the first of two scheduled Zoom conversations on the Matthew 25 Movement’s foci of eradicating systemic poverty and dismantling structural racism.
April 25, 2024
“I always see people in our congregations eager to do some kind of service with our neighbors. Their first thought is often that that’s meeting a basic need, some sort of hands-on giving someone food or drink or clothing or shelter,” said the Rev. Rebekah LeMon, senior pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. “But we have to ask ourselves, as people of faith, why our systems don’t allow everyone to have food, clothing, shelter and welcome.” For the past six years, LeMon has served on the board of Presbyterians for a Better Georgia (PBG). “Advocacy is the way we try to create systemic change that would better support all of our neighbors.”
Commemorating an LGBTQIA+ advocate in the PC(USA)
April 25, 2024
Kristen Gaydos | Presbyterian Historical Society
Fifty years ago, at the 1974 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA), David Sindt rose from his seat and bravely and hopefully held up a sign with a single question: Is Anyone Else Out There Gay?
April 25, 2024
The church can’t afford to become irritated, blasé or condescending about church trauma. As the phrase indicates, this phenomenon is the result of harms perpetrated in and by the church. We need to take religious trauma very, very seriously.
April 25, 2024
In 2014, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance’s Associate for Story Ministry, David Barnhart, met Lisa Horne, Director of Community Ministry at First Presbyterian Church of Flint, working on what would become the award-winning documentary, “Flint: The Poisoning of an American City.”
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