Noted Presbyterian hymn-writer Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has penned a new hymn to help promote the National Donor Sabbath, which encourages organ donation.
Presbiteriana (EE.UU.), establecido en 1992, llevo a cabo su reunión trianual del 23 al 24 de Octubre en Las Vegas, Nevada.
God bless online media. Almost half of U.S. adults (46 percent) say they saw someone sharing “something about their faith” on the Internet in the last week.
The days when divided and conflicted Presbyterians could gloss over or ignore their differences are over, General Assembly Vice-moderator Larissa Kwong Abazia said today (Nov. 7).
“This day,” she told more than 120 presbytery and synod leaders gathered here for the annual Moderators Conference, “we are called to move through the pain and suffering, to have the tough conversations, to face one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, and take the hard together.”
Speaking on election night, Union Presbyterian Seminary President Brian Blount told a full house at the Assembly Training School/Presbyterian School of Christian Education centennial celebration banquet here that people of faith can and do change the world, and repeatedly cited the legacy of ATS/PSCE as a prime example.
If you’re dismayed that one in five Americans (20 percent) are “nones” — people who claim no particular religious identity — brace yourself.
How does 38 percent sound?
That’s what religion researcher David Kinnaman calculates when he adds “the unchurched, the never-churched and the skeptics” to the nones.
An unprecedented collaborative effort to fund clean water ministries ― including the PC(USA)’s Living Waters for the World (LWW) ― has reached its final phase, with a goal of selling 1,000 limited-edition Holden Village GS Mini guitars by Christmas.
In 1907, Annie Wilson – a young Presbyterian woman who desired to serve the church as an overseas missionary – sought admission to Union Theological Seminary here. Though there was no provision for women students, much less non-ministerial candidate students, the seminary allowed Wilson to attend classes … without credit.
As the question of how we set about tackling climate change increasingly becomes not just an economic and political issue, but a moral one too, a new paper from Christian Aid draws inspiration from the Biblical prophets.
A united call was issued on November 4 for the humanitarian release of the Cuban 5 and the American Alan Gross. The call was issued by the Cuban Council of Churches, the Reverend John McCullough of Church World Service, Rabbi Sunny Schnitzer of the Jewish Renewal Movement and the Reverend Gradye Parsons of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).