40 Years Ago — April 26, 1982 Presbyterians, North and South alike, can have a new, united church if and when enough..
Moderator Herbert Valentine, in his first major report to the General Assembly Council, had plenty of good things to say about what..
Miriam of the wilderness narratives [describe a woman who] danced, sang, played the drums, led, prophesied, questioned authority, embraced diverse voices and..
The church had been in controversy, and the 213th General Assembly turned to the Office of Theology and Worship to help clarify..
"With a cross on his lapel, it’s easy to spot a military chaplain in uniform. But the same might not be true..
80 years ago — October 29, 1941 Presbyterian minister, Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1926..
70 years ago — October 1, 1951 The Scottish church “seemed to have nothing to say to the working classes of people..
50 years ago — September 6, 1971 The U.S. is preparing to end the 20-year war in Afghanistan. And 50 years ago,..
30 years ago — January 7, 1991 Meeting in Portland, Ore., the National Council of Churches’ General Board celebrated its 40th anniversary..
20 years ago — December 18-25, 2000 It has been a centuries-old unwritten rule that at Christmas a ceasefire be observed in..
10 years ago — December 13, 2010 Tres Rios Presbytery opened its 89th meeting with a communion service at the fence between..
80 years ago — December 4, 1940 It is with inevitable and irrepressible sadness that we come to celebrate Armistice Day in..
70 years ago — October 9, 1950 “Word has been received here of the almost complete destruction of Chosen Christian University, a..
60 years ago — October 10, 1960 During the past several months college and university students in the United States, both [African-American]..
50 years ago — August 24, 1970 “One hundred years ago women voted for the first time in American elections in Utah..
40 years ago — August 11, 1980 Two hundred years ago, in 1780, Robert Raikes, the publisher of the Gloucester (England) Journal..
30 years ago — July 16-30, 1990 Religious “leaders from the United States gathered in the chapel of Riverside Church in New..
Syngman Rhee became the first Asian-American to be elected moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) during the first day of the 212th..
10 years ago — June 28, 2010 “One of 18 General Assembly committees will spend hour after hour in July debating, yet..
80 years ago — June 5, 1940 As the United States heard the devastating news of European country after country falling to..
70 years ago — May 22, 1950 In 1866, David Livingstone returned to Great Britain after years as a mission worker in..
60 years ago — April 25, 1960 “Presbyterian students in Alabama have a feeling that they have been encouraged to bear courageous..
50 years ago — April 6, 1970 The General Council of World Presbyterians, held August 1970 in Nairobi, Kenya, developed a Bible..
40 years ago — March 17, 1980 “During the first four years of the 1940s, a little Huguenot village perched on a..
30 years ago — February 19, 1990 A few days before the remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, the state of..
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