Meeting via Zoom on Thursday, members of the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly continued to discuss details about the next two General Assemblies — GA 227 in 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and GA 228 in 2028 at a site that’s yet to be announced.
After casting your ballot on Nov. 5, you’re invited to join the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for an online prayer vigil to help relieve anxiety, create a sense of community and be unified in Christ.
Displaying the candor, humor and deep faith that has made her a best-selling and beloved author, Anne Lamott — who for decades has worshiped and taught Sunday school at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Marin City, California — appeared last week at First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, California before a large and enrapt crowd.
Kevin Riley’s life has been full of risk — and not all of it good. Riley, the commissioned pastor of Mount Baker Presbyterian Church in Concrete, Washington, suffered from addiction, homelessness, and incarceration earlier in life. Those life experiences, harrowing as they are, increased his comfort level with risk — an attitude that served the church well when the Covid pandemic arrived.
"O God, We Give Thanks for the Saints Gone Before Us" is a new hymn for All Saints Day by the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette celebrating faithful Christians in the past and present.
Frontera de Cristo, the PC(USA)-supported ministry based in the neighboring cities of Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, will celebrate four decades of cultivating understanding and relationships this weekend, October 18-20.
“We should not be precious about Christianity,” said Dr. Matthew D. Taylor, senior Protestant scholar at the Institute for Jewish, Christian and Muslim Studies in Baltimore, in answer to the question, “Are the movements that comprise Christian nationalism and internationalism even Christian at all?” The question was posed on Monday evening at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Herencia Lectures.
Together with leaders of the Mennonite Church USA and the Lipan Native American Church, the Rev. Jihyun Oh has signed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Apache Stronghold v. United States et al. Read the brief here by scrolling down to the Oct. 15 filings.
A spirit of solidarity and hope was evident throughout a prayer service hosted by the Synod of South Atlantic last weekend to comfort those trying to rebound from recent storms — particularly Hurricane Helene and its more recent cousin, Milton — and to lift up those assisting survivors.
A few years ago, ruling elder Clara Harper, then a member at Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, was eager to get more involved. She felt she had exhausted earlier options for service — engagement in youth group, the Montreat Youth Conference Planning Team, and Presbyterian Youth Triennium. She was open to serve as a ruling elder as an opportunity to respond to a call she had been experiencing to take the next step into leadership within the church without needing to go to seminary.