In the 1990s, the General Assembly set two diversity goals: increasing the racial ethnic (nonwhite) share of the membership to 10 percent by 2005 and to 20 percent by 2010. How are we doing?
- from the August 2010 issue of Presbyterians Today magazine.
In 1999, the earliest year with near-complete racial ethnic data for all congregations, 6.4 percent of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) members were racial ethnic.
By 2005 that share had grown to 8.1 percent, and by 2008 to 8.6 percent.
Numerically, racial ethnic membership grew from 169,000 in1999 to 187,000 in 2006, before dropping slightly to 184,000 in …
Starting New Initiatives is a process of prayer, discernment, conversation and reflection for congregations to decide how they can best minister in their particular contexts.
A Message from the Colloquium on the Accra and Belhar Confessions
Stony Point, New York, USA, January 15-17, 2010 (Martin Luther King Day Weekend)
By the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 2007.
This report examines concerns that some initiatives to stop human trafficking have proved counter-productive for the very people they were supposed to benefit.
Keynote speech at the Freedom Network (USA) Annual Conference, March 2009, by the Rev. Noelle Damico, who coordinates the PC(USA) Campaign for Fair Food.
A reflection about genocide and justice by a Syrian Armenian pastor, the Rev. Serop Megerditchian.
A reflection by Ken Moe on the ravages of war
These journal entries come from a young soldier deployed to Iraq during the early days of the war in 2003. He has shared his reflections, anonymously, so that others may know something of what young men and women in the military faced.
A celebration of 60 years of Human Right Day by the Rev. Robert F. Smylie.
This document lists and defines the variables that are given for each congregation for each year in the Ten Year Trends report. All definitions are from OGA guidelines concerning the Session Annual Statistical Report