Presbyterians Today invites you to experience the power of God working in community with its newest devotional, “Becoming a Beloved Community: A Matthew 25 Journey to the Cross.”
A religious scholar who explained how one of Christianity’s earliest creeds still applies to contemporary life has earned the 2020 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
The Board of Pensions has presented its first Healthy Pastors, Healthy Congregations seminar in Puerto Rico. Congregational leaders of three churches in the Synod of Boriquén and their pastors attended the seminar, conducted in Spanish at Aguada Presbyterian Church in Aguada.
As the United States approaches the anniversary of the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship announced this week that its 2019 Peaceseeker Award honors Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church and First United Church of Oak Park, both in the Chicago metropolitan area, for exemplary ministries to prevent future gun violence.
Guided by a pair of seasoned consultants, about 300 of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s national staff engaged in a difficult and draining conversation about race Wednesday.
“This is the way we sharpen our axe, so that as we go through the forest we can deal with (racism) in a way that is a blessing to God,” said the Rev. Dr. Diane Moffett, president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, at the onset of an all-day training informed by a large batch of empirical information compiled by the Racial Equity Institute. “When this information gets translated into our lives, we know we are being the people of God.”
The Rev. Everdith (“Evie”) Landrau has been named the new coordinator of the Young Adult Volunteer program.
A trio of denominational leaders will once again offer seminary students a for-credit deep dive into all things Presbyterian at the upcoming 224th General Assembly in Baltimore next June.
The course, “Presbyterianism: Principles and Practices,” will be co-taught by Cliff Kirkpatrick of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Paul Hooker of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and Jerry Van Marter, former director of Presbyterian News Service and current stated clerk of Mid-Kentucky Presbytery.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) partners from the Assembly of Evangelical (Presbyterian) Churches in Iraq are sharing, in their own words, about the Matthew 25 ministries to which they have been called.
Three churches in the Presbytery of Philadelphia were at a crossroads — each considering their future for different reasons.
A new downloadable resource from the Office of Theology & Worship provides analysis and theological reflection on the Reclaiming Jesus Statement. Signed in 2018 by leaders of several denominations and organizations, the statement and ensuing movement calls on Christians in the United States to “reclaim Jesus” by focusing on what followers of Jesus are required to do.