The fall travel schedule looks packed for Heath Rada, moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s 221st General Assembly. His itinerary includes visits to Denver, Reno, Zephyr Point Conference Center on Lake Tahoe, the Texas/Mexico border, South America, and other places.
Rada’s wife, Peggy, a ruling elder and retired middle-school teacher, looks forward to accompanying him on all of these trips. But she won’t just be along for the ride.
June is graduation time in the Caribbean and an especially happy celebration for our global partner, the Seminario Evangelico Teologico (SET) in Matanzas, Cuba, this year. On Wednesday, June 11, a record number of 72 men and women graduated in six different degree programs, the largest number since its foundation in 1946!
Invoking prayers for creation, eco-justice and peace with the earth, “Time for Creation” ― a Christian global event ― is observed worldwide by many member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC).
This November 3-5, Union Presbyterian Seminary (UPSem) will be celebrating 100 years of calling, equipping, and sending Christian educators.
In early November 1914, the Assembly’s Training School for Lay Workers (ATS) was established in the Ginter Park Section of Richmond, directly across Brook Road from Union Theological Seminary.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) on Sept. 5 hosted the Global Energy Parliament (GEP) at the Ecumenical Center here. The event addressed the theme “The Science of Peace in Humans, Humans in Peace,” featuring reflections on how lasting peace can be built by individuals and nations.
“선지자들과 사도들에게 감동을 주신 같은 성령께서…교회의 모든 사역들을 위해 남자들과 여자들을 부르신다” (신앙 고백서, 간추린 신앙 고백, 10.4, lines 58-59, 64).
나는 참으로 “생각이 지나친 사람”이다. 이 말은 나같이 세상적 으로 드러낼만한 것이 부족한 사람이 교역 장로의 세계에서 어 떻게 사역 장로가 되었는가에 대해 너무 많이 생각함으로 인해 내 자격에 대해 의구심을 갖게 되었다는 의미이다. 때로, 나는 하나님께서 나를 부르셨다는 사실을 잊곤 한다. 내 이력서가 얼마나 장황한지에 상관없이 혹은 내가 얼마나 많은 학위들을 가지고 있는가에 상관없이, 다른 사람들이 나의 부르심을 확증해 주었다.
<한국어> <Español>“The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles ... calls women and men to all ministries of the Church” (The Book of Confessions, A Brief Statement of Faith, 10.4, lines 58–59, 64).
I am a true “over-thinker.” That means I’ve thought so much about how I ended up a ruling elder in a teaching elder world that I doubted my qualifications due to a lack of earthly credentials. At times, I have lost sight of the fact that God called me! Others have affirmed it, regardless of how long my resume is or how many degrees I hold.
This time it’s the Catholic sisters versus the Koch brothers.
That’s one way to look at the upcoming “Nuns on the Bus” tour, which hits the road this week (Sept. 17) for the third time in three years, a month-long trip through 10 key U.S. Senate battleground states to campaign against the influence of outside money on politics.
When Quianaca Wesseh called his son, mother, and sister in Liberia’s Maryland County last week, he urged them not to go to the hospital.
"I don’t know if it was the wrong thing to say, but a lot of people are going to the hospital and never returning,” said Wesseh, a Liberian native who serves as director of praise music at Curby Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis. “In Liberia, our hospitals are not advanced like in America. There are no isolation gowns, no protective equipment.”
To raise awareness of the impact of climate change, representatives of churches, ecumenical organizations and the United Nations stood together in the sea in Apia, Samoa, in prayerful solidarity with those vulnerable to rising sea-levels and extreme weather events.