Living Waters for the World celebrates 1,000 clean water partnerships
OXFORD, Mississippi — When 58 mission volunteers representing 17 states and four countries gathered at Camp Hopewell for the 62nd session of..
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Gratitude for women in ministry: Juanita and the lady preachers
Today, I sat in the critical care unit and held my friend Juanita’s hand as her family made decisions about whether to..
18th Sunday after Pentecost — October 13, 2019
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19 Ordinary 28C; Proper 23 God traverses all manner of boundaries this week, debunking human..
Five partners in the Christian Formation Collective gather for idea swapping, support
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Michelle Phillips, the acting director for the Presbyterian Youth Workers’ Association (PYWA), said a recent face-to-face-gathering of the Christian..
CoInspire: Photo gallery
MONTREAT, N.C. — How can the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) address systemic racism in the church? Montreat Conference Center hosted CoInspire Oct. 7-10,..
The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities
Kate Bowler Princeton University Press, 368 pages Reviewed by Jill Duffield How do women in Christian traditions where official leadership roles are..
Food Week of Action will focus on ‘life and death’ issues
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Food Week of Action is an annual celebration of God’s Creation and the many people around the world who grow the..
2 killed in shooting near German synagogue; 1 person arrested
HALLE, Germany (AP) — Several shots were fired Wednesday (Oct. 9) in the eastern German city of Halle, leaving two people dead..
Words matter
After the tumultuous election season of 2016, my co-pastor and I wrote “a letter of solidarity” to our congregation. Many had been..
Making change
A few months ago I flew to Oklahoma City to keynote at a conference about 90 miles outside of the city. I..
Opinion: The economic (and Christian) case for hiring refugees
(RNS) — As a white evangelical Christian from a rural town in Georgia, I grew up around people who looked like me,..
Presbyterian educators address their organization’s lack of diversity
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Knowing that the membership and leadership of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (APCE) is nearly 100 percent white..
Communal Conversion: the path to becoming a neighborhood church
LOUISVILLE (OGA) How do churches connect with their neighbors? What barriers do they need to break in order to establish that relationship? Neighborhood..
“All my best”
My other job – besides minister – is teaching math to high-schoolers. As the last school year drew to a close, a..
Christian leaders call for Day of Prayer in support of impeachment inquiry
(RNS) — More than 90 Christian leaders are calling for a National Day of Prayer this Sunday (Oct. 13) “for the truth..
Horizons 3: Keep Sabbath
“Words of Love: Keep Sabbath” Lesson 3 Exodus 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5: 12-15; Mark 2:23-28 When I was a child and later a teenager,..
A Presbyterian woman in Chicago …
A Presbyterian woman in downtown Chicago saw a young barefoot lad. She took him to a shoe store and asked for warm..
First Presbyterian Church in Richmond
First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, supports Presbyterian Women. With so many women working, many women’s groups have eliminated circles. At First..
Lee Hale
“People have so many reasons that they might not be walking into a church, and rarely is that reason that they don’t..
Woman minister (63 years ago)
63 years ago — November 12, 1956 By 1930, the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. had opened the door to ordination for..
Video: Stated clerk urges Americans to look beyond skin color and find the heart
LOUISVILLE (OGA) At a time of political and racial divisions in the United States, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the..
Evolving Faith 2019 held in Denver
DENVER, Colorado (RNS) — The Evolving Faith 2019 conference, the second annual gathering of progressive Christians (most of them with evangelical backgrounds),..
The rise of women in the pulpit
The boundary breakers When the Northern Presbyterian Church (United Presbyterian Church in the United States of American) ordained Margaret Towner in 1956,..
Christian university leaders meet to discuss how they can diversify their campuses
NEWBERG, Oregon (RNS) — The images of marchers with tiki torches chanting “You will not replace us!” at the Unite the Right..
Stated Clerk Nominating Committee begins nomination process
LOUISVILLE (OGA) With the 224th General Assembly (2020) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approximately eight months away, the Stated Clerk Nominating Committee has..
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