Leaders from 20 faith traditions ― including the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Presbytery of New York City ― have launched a statewide effort  to call on President Obama and the U.S. Congress to “enact comprehensive, just and humane reform of our nation’s immigration system.”

Mary Jane Patterson, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) elder who served as a social worker and missionary to Africa before enlivening the corridors of power in the nation’s capital as director of the Presbyterian Washington Office for 13 years, died April 8 in Washington.

Megan Buff’s father is a Presbyterian pastor, so when she says she grew up in the church, it’s a literal as well as a figurative statement.

Last week I participated in a panel at a university in Guatemala City celebrating a new documentary by a young local filmmaker.

The pension plan of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Board of Pensions (BOP) remains fully-funded despite investment losses of 28.6 percent in 2008, board members were told at their recent meeting here.

It is my good fortune to teach an adult Sunday school class once a month.

As I write this, we are in the midst of Holy Week and the walk toward the cross.

The stereotypical biker attire involves a lot of black and a lot of leather.

John McFayden follows part of that formula. He does often wear black, but it’s not usually leather. It’s his pulpit robe.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., professor of religion and African American studies in the Department of Religion at Princeton University, will give Princeton Theological Seminary’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on April 9. His lecture is titled “Imagination and Race in the Age of Obama.”

Fifteen members of the General Assembly’s Youth Ministries Task Force have been named by the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, Moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).