To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. —1 Corinthians 12:7
February is African American History Month. Should Presbyterians spend time reading and learning about the roles that African Americans have played in the foundation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? In other words, Does African American Presbyterian history matter? The African American Congregational Support office in Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministries offers a resounding yes—of course African American Presbyterian history matters!
On Feb. 12, 2005, two hired gunmen killed Sister Dorothy Stang, 73, as she read aloud from the Bible in a remote settlement just off the Trans-Amazonian Highway.
As a tireless advocate for the poor and landless in Brazil for more than three decades, the Ohio-born nun came into conflict with ruthless landowners who tried to enact their own violent rule over swaths of the Amazon rain forest.
The Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan’s diocese of Wau has developed a course titled “Reconcile - Moving Forward in Peace”, inviting people to be peace-builders this Lenten season.
Hundreds of American bicyclists die in collisions with cars each year, but a fatal December crash in Baltimore has triggered some serious soul-searching within the Episcopal Church: The drunken driver, authorities say, was a bishop.
미국 장로교는 이집트의 콥틱 그리스도인들의 죽음을 애도하여 그 일을 자행한 자들을 비난한다
이집트의 그리스도인들이 리비아에서 IS에 의해 참수 당한 비디오가 지난 주일에 공개되었다. 세상과 함께 그들의 죽음을 애도하고 있는 우리의 마음은 참담하기 그지없다. 중동에서 가장 크게 밀집되어 있는 그리스도인들의 일부분인 21명의 콥틱 그리스도인들이 인질로 잡혔다가 그러한 비극을 맞이한 것이다. 우리는 알렉산드리아의 콥트 정교회에 큰 위로가 있기를 바란다. 우리는 또한 떨림과 분노를 가지고 이러한 인사불성의 살인을 비난하며, 온 세상의 에큐메니칼 및 타 종교 공동체에게 평화와 정의를 위해 그리고 이렇게 무자비한 폭력의 즉각적 중단을 위해 큰 소리를 발해줄 것을 요청한다.
그래디 파슨스, 미국 장로교 정서기
Our hearts are heavy as we join the world in mourning the Egyptian Christians beheaded in a video released Sunday by the Islamic State in Libya. The twenty-one Coptic Christians, part of the largest concentration of Christians in the Middle East, had been taken hostage. Our deepest sympathies are with the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. With equal horror and outrage we also condemn these senseless murders, and call on the global ecumenical and interfaith community to cry out loudly for peace, justice, and an immediate end to these ruthless, violent acts.
The Reverend Gradye Parsons
Stated Clerk of the …
The story of a high-quality El Salvadoran wine, Hidden Flame, began more than a decade ago.
Pastor Santos Carpio was having a conversation with God.
Little did he know what would result.
That he would live.
That through his church — Tabernaculo Biblico Salem — women in the community would “find their voices” by producing that wine.
In honor of African-American History Month, Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministries is collaborating with the Rev. Tawnya Denise Anderson, pastor at Unity Presbyterian Church in Temple Hills, Md., to lift up stories of young African-American leaders from across the PC(USA). This post features Reverend Whitney Fauntleroy, teaching elder in the Presbytery of Coastal Carolina.
The Spirituality Program at the Center for Lifelong Learning is pleased to announce the new Certificate in Spiritual Direction program. The first residential session will begin in the fall of 2015. Applications for the first cohort will be accepted through April 30, 2015. The application may be accessed here.
I’ve had it. This time we cannot roll our eyes, snicker under our breath, or defer to that great US colloquialism: “what two people do behind closed doors is up to them.” 100,000,000 paperback copies and a big screen movie have flung those doors wide open, friends.