Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center on the shore of Lake Tahoe will provide complimentary free housing for the men and women supporting a swim across Lake Tahoe to raise awareness and support for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

“We are in the midst of a new Reformation,” says McCormick Theological Seminary’s President Frank M. Yamada.  “We have an opportunity to rethink theological education for the priesthood of all believers, merging ancient wisdom with cutting-edge technology.”

Fred Bahnson’s first bit of advice when he started planning a church garden eight years ago came from an elderly tobacco farmer who grabbed a handful of soil, rolled it around in his fingers and shook his head:

“You don wohn fahm heah,” he said in his deep North Carolina drawl.

The event that marks the founding of Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center (ZPPCC) was a youth rally in 1924 in a lodge adjacent to the current conference center campus at South Lake Tahoe.

We never met Pedro, but a chill fell over us when we learned of his death.  As we heard the news, our hearts reached out to Lucía, who had shared with us some of Pedro’s story.

Two ecumenical councils in South Sudan and Sudan have now been established. The decision comes after South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 following a referendum mandated by the 2005 peace pact that ended Africa’s longest-running civil war.

A new voice is emerging in the evangelical community, and it’s turning away from the church’s vocal opposition to homosexuality in favor of a more tolerant attitude.

This weekend, Presbyterians and others interested in learning more about climate change and fossil fuels will gather in Knoxville, Tenn., for worship, education and small group discussions.

The event is organized by members of First Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Fossil Free PCUSA, a group calling for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to immediately stop investing in fossil fuel companies and to divest from all current holdings in the next five years.

How do you involve the average reader in a philosophical discussion about religion? You use just enough fiction to make it an engaging story. 

That’s just what James Stanley Barlow has done in Pastor: A Fictional Reminiscence. 

Centre College ― a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)-related  liberal arts school in rural Kentucky ― has received a $250 million donation, one of the largest single gifts in higher education history, according to the Associated Press.