Three overtures to the 227th General Assembly ask the PC(USA) to investigate the closure of World Mission, examine concerns about transparency and accountability, and chart a new vision for global mission.
The UC addresses ordination, pay equity, artificial intelligence and more.
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Barkley, who serves a Bay Area church, hears a call to stand alongside the Rev. Dr. Bill Myers at the 227th General Assembly.
The PC(USA) continues to navigate questions first raised at the 2024 General Assembly as a new overture asks how recently approved amendments shape ordination and freedom of conscience across the church.
Seventy-three leaders from 11 committees learn from national staff and from one another.
A proposed General Assembly policy would formally repudiate White Christian nationalism, urging congregations and leaders to confront its theology, examine its influence and respond through teaching, public witness and practice.
The Rev. Dr. Bill Myers, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Charleston, is on the lookout for a commissioner to stand alongside him.
MRTI recommends divestment from two companies as a GA227 overture calls for broader action.
As the 227th General Assembly approaches, PC(USA) leaders say a proposed new confession is meant to help the church speak truthfully about sin, justice and faith in this time and place.
A year after the Interim Unified Agency eliminated 54 mission co-worker positions, former co-workers are describing what they endured — and two GA227 overtures are calling for accountability.
The camp with PC(USA) connections will use the grant to support critical capital improvements, including facility restoration, expanded capacity, and enhanced accessibility.
The budget proposals, which await approval by the 227th General Assembly, are for $90.5 million in 2027 and $97.9 million in 2028.
The most common response was givers are focusing on their local church.
A pastor, preacher and former Outlook board member, Sparks helped shape church and civic life in Richmond through a lifelong commitment to justice and unity.
Author and Columbia Seminary professor William Yoo urges people of faith to speak against White Christian nationalism.
A Corporation Board gets an initial look at the top areas for concentrated efforts throughout 2026.
The public is invited to farewell lectures from Theology Department Professors Dirk Smit, George Hunsinger and Mark Lewis Taylor.
After sweeping layoffs, 41 Presbyterians — including dismissed co-workers and denominational leaders — gathered at Union Seminary to begin drafting a new theology of mission for the PC(USA).
Both Apollo 8 and Artemis II missions included public references to religion, but astronauts aboard the Artemis’ Orion spacecraft struck a broader, more global tone.
The seminary will celebrate the careers of retiring professors Frances Taylor Gench and Professor John T. Carroll.
Proposed overtures include access to care for transgender youth and freedom of choice for clergy healthcare options.
A new fellowship program will provide graduate students the unique opportunity to work in collegiate ministry while obtaining a master’s degree.
Guide urges shareholders to call for corporate responsibility around AI usage and other human and environmental justice concerns.
Registration is now open for the 2026 James Atwood Institute for Congregational Courage.
Not since the Civil Rights Era has the religious left so publicly and collaboratively protested in the name of a social question they regard as a spiritual one.
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