Wrapping up their three-part series last week on Mental Health, Science and the Church, the Synod of the Covenant and its partner, Science for the Church, offered an hour-long conversation on churches and church leaders who are offering mental health services to congregants and to their communities. Watch the webinar here.
The Leader Formation webinar series continues on April 27 (7 – 8:30 p.m. Eastern), with a conversation for ruling elders and deacons about care ministry within congregations.
Register here for the free webinar by April 19.
Leader Formation organizer and Ruling Elder Martha Miller will host the event, with featured guests the Revs. Rachel Achtemeier Rhodes and Matt Rhodes.
Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts’ “Then They Came for Mine: Healing from the Trauma of Racial Balance,” a book published last fall by Westminster John Knox Press, has been awarded the 2023Wilbur Prize, the highest honor given by the Religion Communicators Council.
The headlines just keep coming. Day after day, week after week, people are dying because of gun violence. It doesn’t matter where you live, what you are doing or what your economic status is, the access to guns in this country has placed everyone at risk. My heart breaks once again for the loss of innocent lives in the latest shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday. Seven people are dead because one person decided to kill. Our hearts grieve for the children and families impacted by this latest tragedy.
Images of long lines waiting at the U.S. border, people navigating high water and hot deserts in a quest for a new life. As thousands of people come to the U.S. seeking a new start for themselves and their families, a dedicated group of Presbyterians is working to make that a reality. Among them is Amanda Craft, manager for advocacy in the Office of the General Assembly.
Young delegates to this month’s 67th Commission on the Status of Women called the opportunity “an awesome privilege” and “memorable” in reflections completed on behalf of the ministry area that supported their time in New York City, Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries.
An unprecedented gathering last week brought more than 200 Presbyterian Mission Agency staff to the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky, for Vision Convocation, a week-long celebration, sharing, learning and listening session that included mission co-workers serving in about 80 countries around the world.
For the last 15 years, members and friends of Shawnee Presbyterian Church and Harvey Browne Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, have been working together to bridge the racial divide by forming a collaborative they call “The Beloved Community.”
The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), recently traveled to New York City to meet, worship, and fellowship with a number of Presbyterians attending the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.
In this week’s devotional, Nelson shares his thoughts and hopes for the future.
Chelsea deLisser, the new director of Stony Point Center in the Hudson River Valley 45 minutes northwest of New York City, traces her life of service back to high school.