Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Theology Professor Shannon Craigo-Snell recently joined a group of academics in religious studies, history, and ethics to develop Breakdown Whiteness, an online resource designed to explain structural racism to white audiences.
The walking path leads me along the edge of a wooded draw. Glancing down through the shadows of the trees, I notice a bright flash of light. With a turn-aside and a second look, I see that the creek has managed to pull the sun out of the sky, all the way down to the lowest place in the woods. From the water there, the sun blazes up at me.
Union Presbyterian Seminary is currently accepting applications for a Master of Arts in Public Theology (M.A.P.T.). Classes will begin in fall 2021.
Jean Edwards, a longtime friend of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and widow of former Louisville Seminary Professor George Edwards, died Wednesday, November 4, at her home in Treyton Oak Towers in Louisville, Kentucky. She was 98.
Over the next eight months or so, the Presbyterian Mission Agency — with input from its many partners — will embark on a three-phase Vision Implementation Plan to, as the PMA’s president and executive director put it during a staff town hall meeting Thursday, discern “what the Holy Spirit is already doing and join God in doing it.”
When you examine Scripture, how does the lens of colonization influence how you read and understand those passages? That’s the question asked during Wednesday’s broadcast of Good Medicine, a monthly online conversation with the Co-Moderators of the 224th General Assembly (2020).
The Reverend Gregory Bentley and Ruling Elder Elona Street-Stewart spoke with Jim Bear Jacobs, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation, located in central Wisconsin. He also serves as pastor of the Church of All Nations, a multicultural community Presbyterian church, located in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, as part of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area. Jacobs is also program director of racial justice for the Minnesota Council of Churches.
Amanda Craft differentiates between small-a advocacy and big-A Advocacy.
In 2000, eight retirees led an effort to plant a new Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregation in the mountains of north Georgia. Today, Faith Presbyterian Church – Blue Ridge has 159 members and is one of the fastest-growing congregations in Cherokee Presbytery and the Synod of the South Atlantic. Last year, Sunday morning worship attendance averaged 109.
When the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act was signed into law on March 27, 2020, most Americans did not yet have year-end charitable giving on their mind. Now is the time that they should.
El Pastor Jesús «Chuy» Gallegos Blanco falleció pacíficamente en su casa el domingo 1 de noviembre. Fue, de acuerdo con su obituario publicado en The Leader de Longmont (Colorado), amado por muchas personas que están sufriendo la pérdida de su vida. Él tenía 63 años.