Self care is “all the rage these days,” NEXT Church keynoter Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes said Tuesday during her second of three talks. It’s a “commodified topic,” but it’s not well understood. Walker-Barnes, Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary, laid out six claims on the topic to help bring understanding to those attending NEXT Church’s National Gathering both in person at Montreat Conference Center and online.
미국장로교 한인장로교회 전국협의회(NCKPC)는 지난달 사역 50주년을 기념하여 성경, 음악, 무용과 함께하는 기념행사를 주최하고, 다음 세대를 위한 6만 달러의 희년 종자 기금을 전달했다.
희년 축제는 총회 연례 집회 기간 중 오하이오주 클리블랜드 한인중앙장로교회에서 4월 26~28일 개최되었다.
We are saddened and outraged by the racist slaughter of 10 Black men and women that took place at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, this past Saturday. We continue to reap the bitter harvest of the toxic seeds of the congenital defects of the founding of our nation: the genocide of Indigenous people and theft of their land and the enslavement of Africans. Our pain was exacerbated the next day by the traumatic shooting attack on Taiwanese elders, members at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, that killed one person and left five others seriously injured.
The National Caucus of Korean Presbyterian Churches (NCKPC) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) marked 50 years of ministry last month with a celebration that included Scripture, music, dance and the presenting of a $60,000 Jubilee Seed Fund to the next generations.
Under the specter of safe and legal abortion ending in much of the country, let's look at the struggle for reproductive justice inside the PC(USA).
Currently the PC(USA)'s office of Mission Responsibility Through Investment supports reproductive justice through shareholder activism, and the church’s Social Justice and Peacemaking Unit works with the interdenominational Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has been awarded a $50,000 planning grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The focus of the grant is gathering best practices for passing the Christian faith of parents and caregivers to their children.
After obtaining a PhD and teaching for a few years, Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes decided to enroll in seminary, where her eyes were opened in an unexpected and unpleasant way.
Like most kids, Josh Davenport-Herbst has always had a hard time saying no to his parents, especially when it came to showing up for stuff at church.
In the midst of awful current headlines and centuries of injustice, God’s word for today came to the NEXT Church National Gathering underway at Montreat Conference Center from the Rev. Larissa Kwong Abazia, Vice-Moderator of the 221st General Assembly (2014).
Our nation begins this week in a state of mourning. Two senseless tragedies on opposite ends of the country have left at least a dozen people dead and several wounded. Once again, hate has destroyed families, shaken communities and has all of us asking why.