The winners of the final phase of the Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG) three-phase writing contest have been selected.
Why do the loudest Christian voices today sound so much like the religious authorities who crucified Jesus? In the book Diana Butler Bass calls, “Powerful. Provocative. And true,” Morgan Guyton identifies twelve toxic attitudes Christians have embraced and twelve antidotes that Jesus uses to save us.
The best way to disrupt the cradle to prison pipeline is to be an advocate for children in need. That was the message from Marian Wright Edelman to attendees at last weekend’s Ecumenical Advocacy Days gathering in Washington, D.C. The founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund says this country’s priorities about wealth and where those dollars should go are not in line with helping those living in poverty.
The Rev. Carol McDonald, moderator of the Stated Clerk Nomination Committee, tells why the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson was selected as the nominee for Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
When the Rev. Dr. David B. McCarthy, professor of Religion at Hastings College (Nebraska), recommended to his student, Logan Ellis, that he apply for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Samuel Robinson Award—one requirement of which is to memorize and recite the Westminster Shorter Catechism in the PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions—the college senior was game.
Picking up where Compassion, Peace and Justice Training Day left off, approximately 200 Presbyterians joined Christian counterparts from other denominations in Washington, D.C. for Ecumenical Advocacy Days, an opportunity to explore, discuss and challenge the issues of racism, class and power.
Matanzas, Cuba-Representantes de quince miembros en comunión de la Alianza de Iglesias Presbiterianas y Reformadas de Americana Latina (AIPRAL) y el Consejo de Área de América del Norte (CANAAC) se reunieron recientemente para la Lecturas sobre Género de los Signos de los Tiempos: Conversaciones Birregional con Accra +10.
La consulta altamente simbólica y contextual fue patrocinada por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias Reformadas (CMIR) y alojada en el Seminario Evangélico de Teología en Matanzas, Cuba.
El CMIR está sosteniendo conversaciones birregionales que tienen en cuenta el impacto de la Confesión de Accra diez años después de su adopción en preparación para …
A delegation from the presbyteries of Peace River, Tampa Bay and Tropical Florida made a historic trip to Cuba in February 2016 to meet with leaders of the Presbyterian-Reformed Church in Cuba (PRCC), their first official meeting in 54 years. Prior to 1967, the Cuban Church was a Presbytery within the Synod of New Jersey in the United Presbyterian Church and was nurtured by missionaries and substantial mission giving. The Rev. Daniel Izquierdo, the PRCC Synod Executive, says it was an environment of “dependent plenty.”
¿Va para la Asamblea General #222 (2016) de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.) en junio? Asegúrese de llevar su camiseta de misión favorita.
El Secretario Permanente Gradye Parsons está animando a todas las personas presbiterianas que han de asistir a la asamblea del 18-25 de junio, en Portland, Oregón, a que se pongan una camiseta de misión el jueves, 23 de junio. Podría ser una camisa de un viaje de misión juvenil, un proyecto de la congregación, tal como Hábitat para la Humanidad, o una actividad de promoción de la justicia social.
El Reverendo Dr. J. Herbert Nelson es el nominado para convertirse en el próximo Secretario Permanente de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.), anuncio el comité encargado de nombrar a un candidato para la 222ª Asamblea General (2016) el día de hoy.
«Nosotros/as, el comité, cree que J. Herbert Nelson será tanto pastor y profeta para la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.), y para nuestros hermanos y hermanas ecuménicos e interreligiosos», dijo la Reverenda Carol McDonald, moderadora del Comité de Nominaciones para Secretario/a Permanente (SCNC).