Motivation for racial justice fed the 120 souls gathered for the dinner of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus (NBPC) Monday, with the Rev. Thomas H. Priest Jr. saying it is time to finally pick up the baton from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and act for racial justice and equity at the 223rd General Assembly (2018).

The denomination’s top two officers told the Way Forward Committee on Tuesday that the agencies they lead will live faithfully and collegially together no matter what governance model the committee recommends to the General Assembly.

The 223rd General Assembly’s Mission Coordination Committee voted unanimously Monday evening to recommend the confirmation of the Rev. Diane Moffett as president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA).

On Father’s Day the rev. abby mohaupt (she prefers her name and title in lowercase) of Fossil Free PCUSA told The General Assembly News that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) can take better care of Mother Earth by divesting from fossil fuels.

Nan Kim of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hopes that today’s atmosphere may lead to more people-to-people exchanges between North and South, to deeper understanding of the historical and cultural ramifications of Korea’s division and, ultimately, to the multilateral negotiation of a durable peace treaty.

The Rev. Traci Blackmon, in a forthright dialogue on topics ranging from Ferguson to the lack of denominational unity to what it means to be a Jesus-centered church to a future beyond white supremacy.

General Assembly Stated Clerk the Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, II has issued a statement (based on a letter to a concerned Assembly-goer) addressing a nasty confrontation that occurred outside the Assembly Committee on the Middle East (Committee 12) meeting room Monday.

The Assembly Committee on Polity and Ordered Ministry spent hours Monday pondering paid parental and family leave.

As the OGA continues to work with mid councils who are struggling in a mound of complex problems, we remain committed to assisting leaders with judicial matters, leader training, constitutional interpretation, interfaith and ecumenical witness and collaboration, immigration issues, perspectives on church history, prophetic witness, and other responsibilities assigned by the General Assembly.

More than 1,000 people representing churches around the world recently met in Arusha, Tanzania, for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) Conference, which is held roughly every decade.