Durante los últimos dos años, la anciana gobernante Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri y la reverenda Cindy Kohlmann han viajado por todo el país visitando concilios intermedios, iglesias y comunidades. Sus viajes las llevaron al extranjero a Israel/Palestina, Kenia, Grecia, Liberia y más. Han dirigido conferencias grandes y pequeñas, han predicado en iglesias devastadas por tormentas después de huracanes y han llorado con personas que buscan la libertad en los Estados Unidos de sus países devastados por la guerra y la pobreza.

Fourteen months ago, the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis was on a bus winding through Western Kentucky on the Poor People’s Campaign’s Real National Emergency bus tour and envisioning a major march of tens of thousands of people in June 2020.

Divesting from fossil fuels and defunding the police might seem like unrelated causes, but the Rev. abby mohaupt connected them Friday afternoon in the second teach-in of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s Peace Camp.

For the past two years, Ruling Elder Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri and the Reverend Cindy Kohlmann have traveled across the country visiting mid councils, churches, and communities. Their journeys took them overseas to Israel/Palestine, Kenya, Greece, Liberia, and more. They’ve led large and small conferences, preached in storm-ravaged churches after hurricanes, and cried with people who seek freedom in the U.S. from their war-torn and poverty-stricken countries.

More than 400 commissioners, over 180 advisory delegates, and hundreds of staff, churches, and spectators tuned in to take part in the first-ever, fully online 224th General Assembly (2020) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Friday night. Initially slated for two hours of business followed by the Co-Moderators’ election, the session lasted nearly four-and-a-half hours, prompting the rescheduling of the election.

Commissioners and advisory delegates get down to business

Creative endeavors — music, painting, baking, writing — can be a powerful outlet in times of crisis to free the mind from routines and foster growth.

Effecting dramatic social change takes more than the efforts of a single congregation. Churches and other partners must work and organize together.

A congregation agonized over whether to shut down a construction project to protect workers’ health — but thereby denying them their wages.

Two North Carolina congregations — one historically white, the other black — take steps to heal 150 years of racial wounds by worshiping together virtually.

There are five simple financial practices that churches can use to safeguard the money that members have entrusted to them.