Registration for Stewardship Kaleidoscope is still underway, with a July 31 early-bird registration deadline approaching for the Sept. 26-28 event to be held in Savannah, Georgia.
First things first. During her appearance last week as the guest on “A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast,” Margaret Mwale, Associate for Community Development and Constituent Relations for the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People, offered up an SDOP definition for podcast hosts the Rev. Lee Catoe and Simon Doong.
Union Presbyterian Seminary has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to plan and develop a program that focuses on nurturing and sustaining the preaching of pastors who are in the first seven years of their preaching ministries after graduation.
The Rev. Adriene Thorne, leader of First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, has been voted in by the congregation of The Riverside Church in the City of New York as the eighth senior minister in the church’s history. Thorne is the first African American woman to serve as senior minister. She will begin her post on Oct. 1.
Although it's two years away, the work is already underway for the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). At the recently concluded 225th assembly, commissioners and advisory delegates approved a format that will include online committee meetings and in person plenaries in Salt Lake City, Utah.
What keeps you hopeful? That’s a question Presbyterian News Service posed to the Rev. Dr. Chris Hedges, Minister of Social Witness and Prison Ministry at Second Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Hedges has been teaching courses in a college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has signed onto an interfaith letter urging Congress to make “stopping the bloodshed” in Ukraine a top priority as reports of injuries, death, displacement and destruction from the war with Russia continue.
The Rev. Dr. Judy Fentress-Williams, the McClendon Scholar in Residence this summer at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., said at the outset of her captivating online talk Thursday that she was workshopping material eventually intended for a commentary on Genesis.
여러분이 안경을 쓰신다면, 처음 안경을 썼을 때를 기억할 것입니다. 저의 경우는 2학년 때 처음 안경을 썼습니다. 멋진 70년대 스타일의 첫 안경을 쓰고 집으로 돌아오는 길에 저는 나무가 다르게 보인다는 것을 알아차렸습니다. 마치 인상주의 화법처럼 녹색이 두리뭉실해 보였는데, 이젠 나뭇잎들 하나하나가 선명하게 보였습니다. 나뭇잎들은 독특하고 아름다웠습니다. 새 안경은 내가 놓치고 있는 줄조차도 몰랐던 것을 보여 주었습니다.
Si usa lentes, puede recordar la primera vez que se las puso. Para mí, fue en el segundo grado. En el viaje a casa con mi primer par de lentes (con monturas de los años 70 súper elegantes), noté la diferencia en los árboles. Donde antes sólo había una mancha verde impresionista, ahora había hojas individuales. Eran distintas y bellas. Unos lentes nuevos me mostraron lo que ni siquiera sabía que me estaba perdiendo.