Two men on the Mission Committee of First Presbyterian Church of Monroe, Mich., took the 2000-01 Presbyterian Planning Calendar’s “Year of the Child” theme to heart. “We ought to do something for children this year,” they said.

During its national gathering last week, the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators honored four distinguished educators during a banquet held in their honor.

William “Claude” Godwin, Jr., a pastor turned stewardship and communication development ministry unit director in the national office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), passed away peacefully at the age of 79 on Tuesday.

The Rev. Dr. Philip H. Young of Lexington, Virginia, died Wednesday at the age of 88.

The 224th General Assembly (2020) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is still more than four-and-a-half months away, but work is already underway to prepare for the hundreds of Presbyterians and their families who will gather in Baltimore. In addition to the many opportunities for social justice work, the Office of the General Assembly’s Hands and Feet Initiative is looking for volunteers.

When discussing the issue of forced migration, we see images in the U.S. of violence and economic inequality in Central America, South America and parts of the Middle East.

Westminster John Knox Press is proud to announce the publication of two new sermon collections.

If Dr. Bobby Williamson had his way, Presbyterians would be hearing more sermons on what he calls five forgotten books of the Bible — The Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Esther and Ecclesiastes.

It’s clear Presbyterian musician, author and speaker David LaMotte prefers movement stories to the more dramatic hero narratives coming out of Hollywood studios.

In a New York Times opinion piece in 2013, constitutional law scholar Gerrard Magliocca wrote, “More than any man except Abraham Lincoln, John Bingham (1815–1900) was responsible for what the Civil War meant for America’s future.”[1]

While a congressman, Bingham served as lone civilian prosecutor in the military tribunal for the Lincoln assassins, delivered the House impeachment articles to the Senate in the trial of President Andrew Johnson and authored key sections of the Fourteenth Amendment. It is this contribution to America’s constitution that has led him to be called “the American Founding Son"[2] or “the Second Madison.”