How to help veterans who are affected by poverty and intersectional issues will be the focus of the next webinar in “The Struggle is Real” series hosted by the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People.
“Our church’s commitment to Matthew 25 is important to us,” says Ashlynn Beauchamp, a 15-year-old member of First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. “It gives us the opportunity not just to better ourselves and follow Jesus, but to branch out and work in the world to improve others’ lives, not just our own.”
Asked Wednesday about the work that’s making her come alive, the Rev. Gini Norris-Lane, executive director of UKirk Campus Ministries in the Presbyterian Mission Agency, said it’s that “there are college students on campuses around the country that are craving community.”
“Theology is a trustworthy, yet incomplete enterprise. The revelation of God is ongoing in communities marked by diversity and alterity,” says Dr. Keri Day, who delivered the 112th Sprunt Lecture series at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, this week. “God desires to be experienced and loved by us in the material worlds, not intellectually mastered by us, as our ideas can never exhaust divine reality,” said Day, who is the associate professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religion at Princeton Theological Seminary. Day is the author of four books and numerous articles and a fourth-generation preacher in the Church of God in Christ tradition.
Each year as May 5 approaches, which is the National Day of Awareness & Action for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People, Madison McKinney feels what she called on Wednesday “a heavy burden in my heart.”
Each year as May 5 approaches, which is the National Day of Awareness & Action for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People, Madison McKinney feels what she called on Wednesday “a heavy burden in my heart.”
Marcy Stroud, the warden at the minimum-security Mt. Pleasant Correctional Facility, remembers very well the day she received a cold call from the Rev. Trey Hegar, pastor of First Presbyterian Church.
Three recent episodes of “Nourish” — the “Along the Road” podcast series for deacons and ruling elders — feature discussions about the manifold ways church leaders tend to the needs of their congregations, how writing can be a spiritual practice and how worshipers can become more involved in the weekly sermon.
The Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Militarism Working Group is conducting its second Connecting the Dots webinar in 2023 at Noon Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 17.
Every day there are new reports of gun violence in cities across the country, in schools, churches, and local businesses. A few weeks ago, five people were killed and as many as nine others were wounded at a bank building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, just blocks from the national offices of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In the hours and days following that shooting, there has been more gun violence, including a mass shooting in Texas over the past weekend.