According to a United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime 2016 Global Report, nearly 71 percent of human trafficking victims are women and girls, and one-third are children.
On Thursday, President Trump travels to the southern border of the U.S. to make his case for a $5 billion border wall to protect the country from an invasion of migrants. Mission co-worker Mark Adams has lived on the border since 1998. He believes that Christians are called to see the migrant issue very differently.
Compassion fatigue — that malady that many pastors, first responders and others in helping professions suffer that can leave them feeling isolated, tired, trapped or worse — can be overcome, and there’s help for those who, as the Rev. Dr. Dana Sutton put it, “are healing the world and need to heal themselves.”
Anne E. Monell, a Certified Fund Raising Executive, has been appointed as Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Monell, who previously served as Director of Major Gifts for the Children’s Hospital Foundation, began her service at Louisville Seminary Monday.
January is often a month of recovery from the preceding seasons of Advent and Christmas and the calm before the upcoming seasons of Lent and Easter. Many churches find themselves with settled budgets for the new year and rarely bear in mind the role of stewardship in worship. Though counterintuitive, I encourage us to consider that this month’s lectionary readings provide ample opportunities to explore discipleship and the faithful discernment of the use of possessions.
The Presbyterian Foundation is offering a series of five webinars in 2019 on engaging church givers in stewardship and money-related conversations.
Westminster John Knox Press announces the Tuesday release of “Modern Kinship: A Queer Guide to Christian Marriage” by David and Constantino Khalaf.
Catey Gans, a junior studying public health at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., said the 2019 College Conference at Montreat “was all about compassion” and helped students “focus on their blind spots.”
Dr. Jim Smylie, a beloved professor at Union Presbyterian Seminary, died peacefully Jan. 5, 2019, at the age of 93, a seminary release stated.
For the Rev. Cindy Kohlmann, a typical Sunday will involve a morning worship service, one to two hours in the car, a quick stop at a drive-thru, an afternoon meeting or church gathering and a possible preaching engagement for an evening service. But in this case, she’s not operating as the Co-Moderator of the 223rd General Assembly. This is the regular job that has her running for 12 hours on this particular day.