Growing up in Puerto Rico, the Rev. Edwin González-Castillo recalls Los Posadas and Three Kings celebrations where he and his friends would awaken people at 3 o’clock in the morning — even their favorite teachers weren’t exempt — with celebratory music of the season. Amazingly, those aroused from their slumber would in turn feed the revelers.
A mighty oak has fallen! The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) joins South African partners and people of faith around the world in giving thanks to God for the life, ministry and witness of Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, who died Sunday, December 26 at the age of 90.
Archbishop Tutu played an enormous role in South Africa’s transition from institutionalized white supremacy — known as apartheid — to a democratic state whose constitution protects the rights of all the country’s people.
Dado que el mundo todavía se enfrenta a una pandemia que no muestra signos de desaceleración, el mundo tiene motivos para regocijarse este día de Navidad. El reverendo Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, secretario permanente de la Asamblea General de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.) comparte palabras de aliento en la celebración del nacimiento de Jesucristo.
여전히 멈출 기세를 보이지 않는 전염병과 씨름하면서도, 세상은 이 성탄의 시절을 기뻐할 이유가 있습니다. 미국장로교 총회 정서기, 허버트 넬슨 목사는 예수 그리스도 탄생을 기뻐하는 격려의 말을 우리에게 전하고 있다.
As the world still copes with a pandemic that shows no signs of slowing down, the world has reason to rejoice this Christmas Day. The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), shares words of encouragement in celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
We marked each Sunday in our Advent season with God’s promises for hope, peace, joy, and love. We lit candles at church or in our homes as tangible signs of these promises fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
We marked each Sunday in our Advent season with God’s promises for hope, peace, joy, and love. We lit candles at church or in our homes as tangible signs of these promises fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
For its final broadcast of 2021, Between Two Pulpits brings viewers up to date on a Minnesota congregation’s innovative — and productive — Alternative Christmas Marketplace.
Davis Mills looked down at the painting in a box in the back parking lot of First Presbyterian Church in Mayfield, Kentucky, late Saturday afternoon and said, “That’s what it used to look like.”
Rick Ufford-Chase, a ruling elder and the Moderator of the 216th General Assembly (2004), and the Rev. Ashley DeTar Birt, who last spring co-founded, along with Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary and the Presbytery of Utica, co-founded the Center for Jubilee Practice, appeared last week on A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast. The two talked about their work studying, among other things, how churches might facilitate conversations around reparations in light of the wealth gap between Indigenous and African American families and white families in the U.S.