An event millions of Americans are about to face — the return to in-person education, and the impact that race, faith and COVID-19 are having to shape the education experience for students, parents, educators and other school staff — were the subjects of an hour-long panel discussion last week sponsored by Union Presbyterian Seminary.
For congregations across the denomination, is the pandemic an interruption or a disruption?
In Israel-Palestine, temperatures are rising and so are tensions.
A massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday has left at least 100 dead and more than 4,000 people wounded. The cause is still under investigation.
January 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Prohibition Era, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect.
An important advocate for Prohibition within the Presbyterian church was the Board of Temperance and Moral Welfare under the leadership of its ienergetic and creative director, Charles Scanlon, and the redoubtable temperance advocate, Marie C. Brehm.
The Rev. Dr. Lamar Williamson Jr., beloved Presbyterian pastor and educator and a former mission co-worker in the then-Belgian Congo, died peacefully on July 11 in Black Mountain, North Carolina. He was 94.
During a recent online forum held in the Presbytery of St. Augustine on racial and ethnic tensions, a woman named Kristen shared her family’s story: “I didn’t really know what systemic racism was. Then my father, who wore hearing aids, was arrested during a traffic stop when he didn’t understand the rules for including his adaptive devices on his driver’s license.”
The Rev. Edwin Gonzalez-Gertz at Light of Hope Presbyterian Church in Marietta, Georgia, says the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Matthew 25 invitation has given the congregation language to articulate what they’ve been doing for a while — out of necessity.
Cuando Jaime Lázaro estaba buscando una educación de Anciano Gobernante Comisionado (CRE) en español - para que pudiera convertirse en un nuevo líder comisionad de una nueva comunidad de adoración en la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.),
As COVID-19 circles the globe, mission co-workers the Rev. Ryan and Alethia White in Berlin, Germany believe that working together, in our respective corners of the world, can improve protection for human rights everywhere.