This set of readings for lighting the Advent candles is based on the Old Testament lessons in the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C.
See related pages: Season of Advent, Presbyterian Worship
This set of readings for lighting the Advent candles is based on the Old Testament lessons in the Revised Common Lectionary for Year B.
See related pages: Season of Advent, Presbyterian Worship
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is an annual meeting of nongovernmental organizations committed to ensuring women’s equality and promoting women’s rights in the resolutions and work of United Nations member states. Representatives of Presbyterian Women attended this meeting in 2011, focusing on education, job training, science and technology. Read more about the event, Presbyterian Women’s work with the United Nations, and how you can connect.
Links is the electronic newsletter of Presbyterian Women’s Justice and Peace Committee. Each issue explores a topic of justice and peace and offers suggestions for how to be involved and advocate …
See this list of Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People 2009 funded partnerships.
See this OGHS report of the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People 2008 funded partnerships.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) designates the first week in May as Older Adult Week. At this time we seek to broaden opportunities for churches to acknowledge their older adult members. This is the moment to make a special effort to let our elders know they are cared for, loved, and never forgotten. Use this guide to make your Older Adult Week plans.
Hungryhearts article by Terrence A. Taylor
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a member of a Roman Catholic monastic community that embraced silence, yet he spoke volumes about the most important spiritual issues of our day. He was an enormously complex man who sought silence, solitude and contemplation while at the same time living an active life that led him to friendships with hundreds of people scattered throughout the world. Although his movement and communication was quite restricted for the 27 years that he was a member of the Cistercian order, he played a key role in shaping historical events by speaking …
Hungryhearts article by Steven Wirth
We as Christians seek to grow closer in relationship with God. A challenge in doing this is how to make our life choices better reflect God’s values. In the early stages of our spiritual lives this may seem a rather simple and clear-cut practice. As individuals, seeking to do good and avoid evil can carry us a long way. For some people this simple focus remains profound and spiritually rich. Perhaps the circumstances of their lives are such that they face few complex questions.
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Hungryhearts article by Bonnie Bowman Thurston
Your General Assembly has created a task force with the mandate to lead the church “in spiritual discernment of [your] Christian identity.” It seems to me that an obvious source for this is St. Luke’s Acts of the Apostles, the story of the early Church’s growth and development. “How did the early Church in Jerusalem discern the will of God?” is the question I asked myself.
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Use this copy of the Lord's Prayer in Tshiluba, Spanish, Korean, Dutch and English.