Hery Ramambasoa is World Mission’s new area coordinator for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. His home base will be Suava, Fiji, so he can easily travel throughout the region.
We’ve become accustomed to the same cycle every time a shooting makes national headlines: the shock and horror, the offers of thoughts and prayers, the demands for legislative action, and the media uproar. As Christians, how do we meaningfully engage those with whom we disagree in the debate on gun violence?
The founding of Stillman College toward the end of the 19th century was an act of courage and faith. It was not, however, an action taken without consideration and debate. Stillman College is a historically black liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). During the month of February, residents of the U.S. and Canada celebrate Black History Month.
Columbia Theological Seminary President Leanne Van Dyk and Assistant Professor of New Testament Raj Nadella were still a few hours away from the end of the Migration and Border Crossings Conference, but it was not too soon to start thinking ahead.
Westminster John Knox Press has announced that a lectionary commentary it published last year has been named the 2018 Reference Book of the Year.
When Dan Turk gazes at fruit-laden tangerine trees in Antanetibe, Madagascar, he sees more than an agricultural success story. He sees a path out of poverty for the families who tend the crop.
The Rev. Dr. Brian Blount, the president of Union Presbyterian Seminary, has been a major influencer of theological education in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and beyond.
In our Reformed tradition, Presbyterians recognize we are a part of a larger body of Christ. But that body doesn’t end at the walls of our church building, our city limits, state lines or national borders. That body encompasses each and every child of God around the world. Because we all have limitations and are all united in Christ, we believe we are called to mission in partnership because, after all, we are better together.
Now that they’re both about three years into their work leading, respectively, the Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C., and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations in New York City, the Rev. Jimmie Hawkins and Ryan Smith say they’ve found ways to work around a White House that often doesn’t welcome their input.
Cristo llama a la iglesia a luchar por una existencia donde no haya exiliados y todas las personas tengan un espacio en el hogar de Dios. El presidente de los Estados Unidos declaró un estado de emergencia en nuestra frontera sur. Lo que él llama una crisis de seguridad nacional, utilizando nuestras leyes, es muy diferente de la realidad de quienes viven en la frontera y quienes esperan en México para buscar asilo y protección en los Estados Unidos.