Presbyterians recently had a front-row seat in the international discussion on climate change in Peru. The Presbyterian Hunger Program hosted a reflection-action trip with its partner, the Joining Hands Network, coinciding with the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Lima.
The Rev. Michelle J. Bartel, Ph.D., a theology professor and teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has been named the new coordinator for theological education for the Presbyterian Mission Agency.
A rabbi, an imam, and a priest walk into a college. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but in Dubuque, Iowa, it is the gathering of a group called Children of Abraham.
More Utahns go to church every week — 51 percent — than any other state, according to a new Gallup poll.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has joined 34 religious groups in strong opposition to fast-negotiating authority for trade agreements. The interfaith coalition, made up of Quaker, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic organizations, sent a letter this week to Congress urging members to ensure that trade policies “reflect the highest moral values and promote the common good.”
Twenty-five years ago, Jeanne Bishop’s sister and brother-in-law, and their unborn child, were murdered in a crime that rocked Winnetka, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago. A Christian, Bishop forgave the killer, a teenage neighbor. She thought she could move on with her life while he languished in prison, serving a life without parole sentence. Instead, she found herself compelled by her faith to go farther: to seek reconciliation with the killer, David Biro, whom she now visits in prison.
Applications from prospective new worshiping community leaders are being accepted now through March 25, for the new 1001 pilot residency program at Broad Street Ministry’s pastoral immersion program in Philadelphia.
The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) has approved grants totaling $180,110 to 11 self-help projects in the United States and Belize. The money for the projects comes from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering.
The Washington National Cathedral, which sustained heavy damage in a 2011 earthquake, has finished the $10 million first phase of its repair work and intends to embark upon a more daunting and expensive second phase.
Nuestros corazones están afligidos al unirnos con el resto del mundo en el duelo por los cristianos egipcios decapitados en un video publicado el domingo por el Estado Islámico en Libia. Los veintiún cristianos coptos, que forma parte de la mayor concentración de cristianos en el Medio Oriente, habían sido tomados como rehenes. Nuestras más profundas condolencias están con la Iglesia Ortodoxa Copta de Alejandría. Con igual horror e indignación, también condenamos estos asesinatos sin sentido y hacemos un llamado a la comunidad ecuménica e interreligiosa mundial a levantar la voz por la paz, la justicia y el fin inmediato …