Retired Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben, a Presbyterian who served as chief of chaplains of the U.S. Navy and chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, was named Friday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Retired Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben, a Presbyterian who served as chief of chaplains of the U.S. Navy and chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, was named Friday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), was among the denominational leaders participating earlier this month in “What Does God Require of Us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in an Age of COVID-19 and Beyond,” part of the World Communion of Reformed Churches’ Communion-wide discernment process.
Massachusetts State Police, local arson investigators and the FBI are investigating the cause of a Monday morning fire that heavily damaged the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Massachusetts.
As dark December transitions into nearly-as-dark January and February, preachers in need of resources can serve both God and their hearers by preaching the psalms of lamentation.
The Rev. Dr. John F. Stephenson, Jr., a Presbyterian pastor who started a breakfast club called “The Bagel Boys” and continued to serve God despite having to retire from professional ministry in 1980 because of disabling rheumatoid arthritis, died on Oct. 4. He was 89.
The Service of Lament and Hope offered Sunday by Presbyterian Peace Fellowship included a highlight organizers may not have envisioned — poignant online participation by the nearly 30 people gathered to mark the loneliness, heartache and, yes, the hope that people have experienced during a year marked by pandemic, racial injustice, economic devastation and isolation.
The Preaching Lab, a five-part online workshop offered by New Hope Presbyterian Church in Anaheim, California, through a grant by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan, opened Saturday by asking participants to define what preaching means to them. Their definitions included:
Guiding a congregation through a crisis — or even “normal” times — takes a strong leader with courage, vision, flexibility and humility.
A growing Epiphany worship practice is to hand out to church members paper stars, each with a single guiding word for the coming year.