“I’m an interesting visual for folks who are not used to seeing women in the pulpit. My very presence and higher voice can challenge assumptions about who should have leadership and a voice in the church.” The Rev. Shannon Johnson Kershner is pastor and the head of staff at Black Mountain Presbyterian Church in North Carolina. The church sits in the mountains just 20 miles from Asheville and right outside the gates of the Montreat Conference Center. 

A former archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Church of England faces extinction in less than 25 years unless it can attract more young people now.

The challenge of eating on $4.39 per person per day ― the average Food Stamp allotment in the U.S. ― is being met this week (Nov. 17-23) by more than 300 Presbyterians nationwide who registered for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s SNAP Food Stamp Challenge.

The fourth Global Institute of Theology (GIT) is set to take place in San Jose, Costa Rica, July 5-28, 2014. The institute will be held in collaboration with and under the academic auspices of the Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana (Latin American Biblical University) here.

Americans are opening their wallets and providing financial relief to the typhoon-battered Philippines at a pace that may be the third-highest ever for an overseas disaster, but still not enough to satisfy needs.

Less than three weeks after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, killing or injuring thousands of people and displacing millions, relief workers on the ground — including partners of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — continue to assess and meet basic needs.

James E. Winkler, general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS), has been elected general secretary/president of the National Council of Churches by the NCC Governing Board meeting here.

Members of the clergy in the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan, a partner church of World Mission, were released after nearly seven months of imprisonment.  Reverend Idris Joshua Idris Nalos and Pastor Trainee David Gayin were taken from their homes on May 19 by armed men identified by Amnesty International as security forces.

Congregational Ministries Publishing (CMP) is offering markdown prices—up to 75 percent off retail price—on select titles and Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) denominational curriculum resources during its Advent Calendar of Savings sales event.

When Loc Dai Nguyen was growing up in Vietnam, his father was put in prison for being a Christian minister and sharing the good news of the gospel, Dai Nguyen said in a devotion he led at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Young Adult New Immigrant Leadership Institute last month.

Dai Nguyen was nominated and selected as one of the 23 leaders who participated in the first Young Adult New Immigrant Leadership Institute, held Oct. 25-28, in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area. He is unquestionably one of the stellar young adult new immigrant leaders in the PC(USA).