February 14, 2024
Dr. Colin Evans helped the 70 or so participants attending a Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar Tuesday to connect the dots between the extreme global weather patterns that make headlines and the world’s worsening climate crisis.
February 14, 2024
Agnes Scott College is grateful to announce a gift of an endowment to support the Center for Writing and Speaking from The Presbyterian Writers Guild. The Presbyterian Writers Guild, which voted to dissolve as an organization and selected Agnes Scott College as the recipient of its entire organizational endowment, will be honored at a dedication ceremony on Friday, April 5, at Agnes Scott College.
February 14, 2024
If Union Presbyterian Church were to adopt a motto for the way it has chosen to observe Ash Wednesday since 2017, it might not be unlike that of the U.S. Postal Service.
February 14, 2024
Black farmers in the Lowcountry of South Carolina are making economic gains thanks to banding together to take advantage of the “buy local” trend.
Acting Stated Clerk looks back on her first six months
February 13, 2024
Randy Hobson | Office of the General Assembly
LOUISVILLE
On July 10, 2023, the Rev. Bronwen Boswell hit the ground running as Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) She didn’t have a lot of time to celebrate her one-year assignment, but immediately dove into some of the denomination’s major challenges and initiatives including unification of the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency, as well as the planning for the 226th General Assembly.
In an interview with OGA Communications Director Rick Jones, Boswell shares some of her experiences and surprises since taking office.
February 13, 2024
Thanks to a partnership between the Presbyterian Mission Agency and the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 414 churches and communities of faith recently received free copies of the illustrated book “Psalms of Wonder,” by Carey Wallace.
February 13, 2024
Technology glitches Monday couldn’t derail the second week on the PC(USA)’s national online study of Matthew Desmond’s book “Poverty, by America,” which drew nearly 200 people from around the country.
February 13, 2024
Bernadette thought that she had seen the worst of it. For well over a decade, she and her family had unflinchingly withstood Syria’s ever-worsening humanitarian and economic crisis, the country’s ongoing localized hostilities and its collapsing infrastructure.
February 12, 2024
Presbyterian Women Inc. has begun the third annual Justice & Peace Book Discussion Group. The group meets via Zoom on the second Monday of every other month at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Books are chosen by the national J & P Committee each year. They reflect the issues facing each of us in our country and the world.
February 12, 2024
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary called on the Rev. Dr. J. Bradley Wigger to deliver the address during its opening convocation for the 2024 spring semester last week, and Wigger — who’s dedicated his professional life to researching how children develop their faith — didn’t disappoint.
General Assembly co-moderators visited Memorial Drive Ministries, a center for support to refugees in the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta
February 12, 2024
Fred Tangeman | Office of the General Assembly
CLARKSTON, Georgia
Clarkston has been synonymous with refugee resettlement for decades. Described as the Ellis Island of the South, and the most diverse square-mile in North America, the small city includes a number of faith and non-profit groups assisting and accompanying refugees. According to a CBS News report, more than 60 languages are spoken in Clarkston. Fifty-three percent of its residents were born outside the United States.
February 12, 2024
Members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board plan to, along with partner governing boards and committees, begin discussing the future of the Presbyterian Center in downtown Louisville.
February 9, 2024
It’s no fish tale. When the Rev. Dr. Kathy Dawson was first invited nearly 20 years ago to write a new curriculum around a “little fish” designed to interpret the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) Offering to children, she found herself hooked.
February 9, 2024
If the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)’s cadre of Disability Concerns Consultants had a motto, it might be “We are small but mighty.”
February 9, 2024
For her talk last week at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, author and journalist Michele Norris gathered prominent Minnesotans — including the state’s lieutenant governor — to take turns sharing various people’s six words on race.
February 8, 2024
As womanist theologians, the pastors of Liberty Community Church in Minneapolis are seeking the healing of their Northside neighborhood through co-creating spaces of rest and resistance with individuals victimized by the sex trafficking trade and within a community suffering from the effects of systemic poverty and structural racism.
February 8, 2024
Evaluations, next steps and planned regional gatherings following last month’s first-ever Matthew 25 Summit were among the topics for members of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board during the second and final day of their two-day online gathering Wednesday.
Podcast team continues to focus on insights and innovations of mid council and congregation leaders
February 8, 2024
Fred Tangeman | Office of the General Assembly
LOUISVILLE
“Along the Road” recently released its 50th episode. Like many milestones, this one came with surprise at how quick the journey has felt and gratitude at the many experiences along the way. The episodes have become a trove of inquiry, inspiration and affirmation for church leaders around the country — and for the podcast’s hosts.
February 7, 2024
On the first day of two days of meetings that began Tuesday, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board approved and sent to the 226th General Assembly recommendations for changes to the PC(USA)’s Special Offerings.
February 7, 2024
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of more than 300 faith and values-based institutional investors practicing sustainable investing and shareholder engagement, announced Tuesday that Princeton Theological Seminary has joined as a faith-based member.
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