Each year people across the country are invited to respond to the flurry of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday with a day centered on gratitude: Giving Tuesday. The day is filled with nonprofit organizations sharing their stories and encouraging those who are moved to support their work. But, in a time where economic abundance can feel out of reach for so many, how do we embrace generosity and make plans for our own giving?
#GivingTuesday, which this year falls on Tuesday, Nov. 29, is a global day of giving designed to harness the potential of social media and the collective power of individuals, communities, and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide.
As a lifelong advocate of the connectional church, the Rev. Ben Franklin Whitfield might never have expected that this denominational doctrine would one day prove indispensable to him at his own time of greatest need.
Broad Street Food Pantry in Columbus, Ohio, got its start in 1971 when women from Broad Street Presbyterian Church (BSPC) noticed that more and more people were requesting food from the pastoral staff and wanted to help.
It was Billy Taing’s candor that made for a memorable and moving webinar hosted last week by Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center for Asian American Christianity. Taing joined his fellow co-director with the organization API Rise, the Rev. Diane Ujiiye, for a discussion titled “Freedom? A Conversation About Incarceration and Being Asian in the U.S.” Dr. David Chao, director of the Center for Asian American Christianity, was the host.
In this week’s devotional, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) reminds Presbyterians to give thanks for what God has done this year. The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II says to take a breath and remember God’s grace.
“The advent of a new liturgical year offers congregations and church leaders a fresh opportunity to engage the Matthew 25 vision of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),” says the Rev. Dr. David Gambrell, associate for worship in the Office of Theology and Worship in the Presbyterian Mission Agency.
The Presbytery of the Inland Northwest has launched a new capital campaign seeking to raise $50,000 for repairs and renovations of its Native American churches.
On Nov. 10, a crowd gathered at Harrington Center Chapel on the campus of Columbia Theological Seminary to hear Dr. William Yoo share about his new book, “What Kind of Christianity: A History of Slavery and Anti-Black Racism in the Presbyterian Church.” The event was co-hosted by CTS and the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS).
Dr. Delores Seneva Williams, a seminal thinker and writer in the development of womanist theology, died at the age of 88 on Nov. 17, said her daughter, Celeste Williams.