When hundreds of Presbyterians gather in Ft. Worth, Texas, from July 31-Aug. 3 for the National Multicultural Church Conference, they will experience in — and with — each other a foretaste of the Biblical vision of a united community, which welcomes, celebrates and incorporates God’s people of all cultures and languages in one place.
Princeton Seminary graduate Emily Chudy remembers her deep disappointment.
“I’d expected a call,” she says. Rejected — she’d been one of two finalists for her first ministerial job — she sat in her dorm praying, “God, here is your servant; your will be done.”
The Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of Public Witness, has expressed dismay at the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
The Being Reformed study The Heidelberg Catechism provides an in-depth look at the new translation of the catechism recently approved for inclusion in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Book of Confessions.
When Annette Potgieter, a 26-year-old theology student from South Africa, saw a Facebook post about serving as a steward for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee meeting, she decided to apply.
[Korean] [Spanish] Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children are fleeing Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Many are arriving in the United States where it is expected that this nation will receive more than 60,000 children at the end of the fiscal year. The president has called the situation a humanitarian crisis. The federal agencies, Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, are racing in a collaborative relay to answer the need.
Faced with a cultural landscape that’s shifting faster than the church’s ability to keep up, Catholic bishops are looking for new approaches toward unmarried couples, divorced people and single parents who are disillusioned with the church.
Too much death. Too much violence. One more young life taken. We grieve the news that a Palestinian teenager has been abducted and found dead in Jerusalem. The church condemns the actions of those responsible for this death and for all acts of violence.
The first full meeting of the new Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a chief governing body of the Council, began on July 2 at the Ecumenical Center here.
Timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Presbyterian Border Ministry (currently named Presbyterian Border Region Outreach) along the U.S.-Mexico border, Parrish Jones ― a retired Presbyterian minister who teaches philosophy and religion and St. Johns River College in Florida ― has published Presbyterians on the Frontier: A Story of Presbyterian Border Ministry 1984 to 2014.