Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Times

Catherine Meeks and Nibs Stroupe Church Publishing Incorporated, 160 pages Reviewed by Cynthia A. Jarvis If you read “Passionate for Justice,” you..

Religion News Service

50 years after ‘Black Manifesto,’ religious groups take up reparations again

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described 11 o’clock on Sunday morning as the “most segregated hour in America." This story is..

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WCC condemns attack at Hanukkah celebration in New York City

(WCC) The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemned an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi´s home north of New York..

Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterian Historical Society adds digital scans from RNS project, collecting initiatives

PHILADELPHIA (Presbyterian Historical Society) In April 2019, the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) highlighted four ongoing initiatives that expand its mission in new ways:..

What's right?

What’s right about Hebron Presbyterian Church?

Hebron Presbyterian Church — Staunton, Virginia Hebron Presbyterian Church started a new committee: the GROW team. Our focus is not..

Outlook Features

Fiction in faith formation: Stories that act as mirrors

After King David committed adultery with Bathsheba and arranged for her husband to be killed, God sent the prophet Nathan to David...

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A silent worship revival at an Episcopal church for the deaf

NEW YORK (AP) — The Lord's Prayer ended with the bang of dozens of fists that landed on open palms after a..

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Deaf Christians often struggle to hear God’s word, but some find meaning in the richness of who they are

(THE CONVERSATION) — For years, my husband would say after we returned from the church, "I thought the sermon was good." To..

Voices

Pruning the vine

Guest commentary by Jason Schiller I am an aspiring gardener. I love the idea of tending to and cultivating fruits, vegetables and..

Looking into the lectionary

1st Sunday of Christmas — December 29, 2019

Isaiah 63:7-9; Hebrews 2:10-18; Matthew 2:13-23 Christmas 1A The combination of appointed texts for this week scrambles praise for God’s wonderful deeds..

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Aubade

Who would give birth to the god of death? Not brought forth in light, as if from clouds, but squeezed tightly into..

Book Reviews

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Toni Morrison Alfred P. Knopf, 368 pages Reviewed by J. Stephen Rhodes Toni Morrison’s death leaves the United States bereft of a..

Prayers for the moment

Christmas Day prayer: May we be alert

"Wherever we find ourselves this day, we plead for the wisdom to be alert, aware, awake to your inbreaking and the transformation it brings in us and in all creation," writes Jill Duffield.

Prayers for the moment

Christmas Eve prayer: Tonight we abide, we rest

A Christmas Eve prayer by Jill Duffield.

Presbyterian News Service

Stated Clerk invites Presbyterians to 180 days of prayer, leading up to the 224th General Assembly (2020)

(OGA) Beginning today and culminating on the opening day of the 224th General Assembly (2020) in Baltimore, current and former leaders of..

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Late Tidings

After more than eighty of such purple seasons, you might think there would be nothing left to look toward, get ready for...

Outlook Reporting

PC(USA), A Corp, votes to expand size of board

The board of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation, has voted to ask the 2020 General Assembly to expand the board’s size..

Prayers for the moment

Pastoral prayer for the country

Lord, we lament the state of our life together. We lament the rancor and the division. We lament our inability to listen..

Religion News Service

Christianity Today editor argues morally compromised Trump should be removed from office

(RNS) — Mark Galli, the editor-in-chief of the influential evangelical magazine Christianity Today, says that President Donald Trump should be removed from..