The late Reverend Dr. Katie Cannon will be remembered at the closing worship services at this year’s Big Tent celebration in Baltimore. Cannon, a leading voice on womanist theology as well as renowned lecturer and author, died last year following a battle with leukemia.
Participants in this month’s Presbyterian Peacemaking Program travel study seminar in Rwanda saw much more than memorials to the genocide 25 years ago when between 800,000 and 1 million people were killed by their neighbors in a period of 100 days.
Mansei! The shouts rang out in support of Korean independence on March 1, 1919. After nine years of Japanese colonial rule, 33 activists — including pastors of Korean Presbyterian churches and other leading Christians — gathered in Seoul to read aloud the newly drawn up Korean Declaration of Independence. That same afternoon, crowds filled the streets in locations around the country, waving Korean flags and shouting their support for independence.
As an actively anti-racist church organizer of The Open Table KC, Nick Pickrell says it’s important for the 1001 new worship community he founded to bring in “more people of color than white folks” to speak during their twice-per -month Sunday night gatherings.
The next U.S. presidential primary election will feature at least three viable women candidates — a development that would have no doubt thrilled Presbyterian minister and leader, Eunice Poethig. The Presbyterian Historical Society recently completed the processing of Poethig’s papers, and they illuminate her advocacy work in expanding the numbers of women and people from other marginalized communities serving as leaders in ministry and civic life.
The invitation to become Matthew 25 churches and mid councils and a discussion on the future of Stony Point Center near New York City highlight the meeting of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board Wednesday through Friday.
Members of the Moving Forward Implementation Commission learned Monday why they’d been selected by the women who picked them for service — the co-moderators of the 223rd General Assembly, Ruling Elder Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri and the Rev. Cindy Kohlmann.
During the first of three U.S. partner consultations, more than 30 supporters of Presbyterian World Mission came together last week by invitation to discuss and discern God’s mission in a rapidly-changing world.
In late January, Daniel Pappas was riding in a van with his video equipment traveling toward the border of Burma (Myanmar). Most people don’t get that kind of opportunity, but to him it’s just another happy step on a path he didn’t know he was taking.
The Presbyterian Mission Agency will accept applications for the Katie Cannon scholarship beginning April 1.