PC(USA) News

January 19, 2024

During the first of two days of in-person meetings Thursday, the Unification Commission heard an update from Acting Stated Clerk the Rev. Bronwen Boswell on how a pilot program unifying communications ministries in the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency is proceeding.

January 19, 2024

Months in advance, the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program has begun gearing up to welcome this year’s contingent of International Peacemakers and is now accepting applications from entities that would like to host them.

January 18, 2024

Drawing an insightful and inspirational Matthew 25 Summit to a close with worship Thursday, the Rev. Dr. Diane Givens Moffett asked those gathered at New Life Presbyterian Church in South Fulton, Georgia, and online to “consider with me” the thrust of her sermon, “Dream Driven.” View the sermon preached by Moffett, president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, here. Her sermon begins 48 minutes from the end.

January 17, 2024

In an hour-long Matthew 25 Summit address that alternated between the historic and the prophetic, the Rev. Dr. William Yoo wowed attendees with a talk on the Matthew 25 church that never was and the Matthew 25 church that is here today. The 350 or so people in attendance stood and clapped and offered Yoo encouragement throughout his inspiring lecture, which can be seen here. Yoo is introduced by the Rev. Carlton Johnson at the one hour, 18-minute mark.

January 17, 2024

On the second day of the Matthew 25 Summit, the community again gathered itself at the New Life Presbyterian Church in South Fulton, Georgia, for a unique worship experience, in which gently evocative music flowed seamlessly into the creative force of the spoken word, the grace of liturgical dance, and again into poetry, song and silence.

January 17, 2024

The annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in Chicago, Jan. 4-8, showed a great generational transition in the professors who teach religious ethics in seminaries, divinity schools, colleges and universities. The SCE is an ecumenical professional association of almost 1,000 members, including as many as 90 Presbyterians in recent years.

January 16, 2024

A powerful sermon by the Rev. Hodari Williams, team leader of New Life Presbyterian Church in South Fulton, Georgia, deftly set the stage for the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, who brought conference-goers to their feet with her opening plenary on the first day of the historic Matthew 25 Summit.

January 16, 2024

Growing up in the 1980s, the Rev. Hodari Williams was a fan of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger comic books — especially Cloak, whose superpower was becoming invisible when he wore his robe.

Demostrar una nueva calidad de vida dentro y a través de la iglesia

January 16, 2024

Marissa Galván-Valle

Puede parecer bastante natural que pensemos en una nueva calidad de vida al comenzar un nuevo año. Mientras continuamos examinando las maneras en que las personas que son parte fiel de la iglesia prometen «involucrarse responsablemente en el ministerio de la Iglesia de Cristo» (G-1.0304), es apropiado examinar lo que significa demostrar una nueva calidad de vida en el momento en que comienza un nuevo año. ¿Encaja esto con las resoluciones más comunes de año nuevo, como perder peso, hacer más ejercicio, organizarse más, viajar y leer más? ¿Es esa la nueva calidad de vida que debemos buscar?

교회 안에서, 그리고 교회를 통해 새로운 삶의 질을 보여주는 일

January 16, 2024

마리싸 갈반-바예

새해를 맞아서 새로운 삶의 질에 대해서 생각하는 것은 자연스러운 일인 것 같습니다. 우리가 신실한 교인으로서 "그리스도 교회의 사역에 책임감있게 참여할"(G-1.0304) 방식을 탐색하면서, 달력이 바뀌는 이 시기에 새로운 삶의 질을 보여준다는 것의 의미를 탐색해 보는 것은 적절한 것 같습니다. 체중 감량, 운동량 늘리기, 정리 정돈하기, 여행하기, 독서량 늘리기 등 가장 흔한 새해 결심에 해당할까요?  그것이 우리가 찾고 있는 새로운 삶의 질에 부합할까요?

Demonstrating a New Quality of Life Within and Through the Church

January 16, 2024

Marissa Galván-Valle

It seems quite natural to think about a new quality of life at the beginning of a new year. As we continue to examine the ways that faithful members are “involved responsibly in the ministry of Christ’s Church” (G-1.0304), it’s appropriate to examine what it means to demonstrate a new quality of life at the same time that we are faced with a turn of the calendar. Does it fit into the most common new year resolutions like losing weight, exercising more, getting more organized, traveling, or reading more? Is that the new quality of life that we are looking for?

January 15, 2024

Last September, just about the time of his 88th birthday, the Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., had a transformative experience. It was so life-changing that he wasn’t sure the people present at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. as well as many more online would want him to deliver his planned talk, “How Can We Heal Our Nation?” as part of the McClendon Scholar Program.

January 15, 2024

You’re not alone in your ministry. And you don’t have to suffer in silence.

January 15, 2024

Last week as part of the lead-up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship offered an informative webinar featuring author and scholar Dr. Michael Long, who most recently edited “Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics” about the man most responsible for organizing the landmark March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

January 12, 2024

The Rev. Dr. Keith Albans, who served 16 years as the Director of Chaplaincy and Spirituality at Methodist Homes in the United Kingdom, is something of a wordsmith. His prodigious abilities were on display Thursday during a University of Waterloo’s Conrad Grebel University College webinar, “It’s How You Say It: Exploring the Language and Imagery of Aging.” The hour-long event was carried by the Presbyterian Older Adult Ministry Network and attended by more than 100 people from around the world.

January 12, 2024

Now that they’ve turned the corner on Advent and Christmas, preachers are, ready or not, turning their attention to Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on Feb. 14 and runs through Easter Sunday, March 31.

January 11, 2024

“Ladies and gentlemen: Elvis has left the building!” announced the Rev. Sara Hayden, the host of the New Way podcast, invoking the famous phrase used to encourage adoring hangers-on to stop waiting to get a glimpse of “the King” inside.

January 11, 2024

To learn more about what goes into successful intentional pastoral transitions, the Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty turned to someone who’s recently undergone one: the Rev. Shannon Johnson Kershner, who left Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago last May and is now senior pastor and head of staff at Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. Listen to Hinson-Hasty’s 31-minute conversation with Kershner on his “Leading Theologically” broadcast here or here.

GA Planning Team embracing opportunities and challenges of hybrid format

January 11, 2024

Fred Tangeman | Office of the General Assembly

LOUISVILLE

A milestone in the run-up to the 226th General Assembly was reached on December 28, with the 180-day deadlines passing for commissioner and advisory delegate names to be submitted and applications for Stated Clerk of the General Assembly to be received.