PC(USA) News

April 16, 2024

For the fifth of six installments of their “Around the Table” podcast, which can be heard here, hosts the Rev. Michelle Thomas-Bush and the Rev. Cliff Haddox each invited a friend to talk about conversations around the table where not everyone is a person of faith.

Morales is a hospice chaplain and pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Liberty City, Florida

April 16, 2024

Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service

LOUISVILLE

The Rev. Danny Morales, a hospice chaplain and the pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Liberty City, Florida, will stand alongside the Rev. Dr. Marian McClure Taylor as Co-Moderator candidates for the 226th General Assembly.

April 16, 2024

The Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a Presbyterian pastor and hymnwriter, has published “O God, Within the Psalms,” a hymn based on two of the passages for Sunday from the Revised Common Lectionary, Psalm 23:1-6 and John 10:11-18. “O God, Within the Psalms” is sung to TERRA BEATA, “This is My Father’s World.”

April 16, 2024

LOUISVILLE – One van, five days. That’s all it took to change the worldview of six young people. That, plus three committed adult leaders, a whole lot of faith and one big DREAAM. DREAAM, an acronym for Driven to Reach Excellence and Academic Achievement for Males, is a program designed to reach, teach and invest in African American boys at risk and to walk alongside them and their families beginning at the early age of 3 until they reach the age of 24.

April 15, 2024

In October, a PC(USA) delegation that included three international peacemakers from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program journeyed together to Frontera de Cristo, located in the twin cities of Agua Prieta, Mexico, and Douglas, Arizona, for four days of interconnected collaboration on the dynamics of people on the move.

April 15, 2024

On Friday, the second of its two days of meeting online and at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board had a discussion on what a number of people in the denomination are talking about: recently announced changes to the Board of Pensions’ Benefits Plan.

April 15, 2024

The brightly-lit Ramsey Gym at Beulah Presbyterian Church in Louisville came alive Saturday morning as some 20 area volunteers became a cheerful human assembly line in support of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.

April 12, 2024

The week-long festivities celebrating the investiture of Stillman College’s eighth president, Dr. Yolanda W. Page, were capped off Friday with a ceremonial event that felt more like a church service.

April 12, 2024

In the aftermath of Monday’s International Roma Day, which commemorates Europe’s largest ethnic minority and Romani culture, nearly 50 participants joined a Zoom webinar Thursday afternoon to learn more about the Roma community, including facing challenges such as widespread discrimination in housing, education, employment, and health outcomes —particularly for its children.

April 12, 2024

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board heard from people who provide important back-office services in the Administrative Services Group on Thursday.

Connected events explore the legacies of Presbyterian missionaries in the early 20th century

April 11, 2024

Kristen Gaydos | Presbyterian Historical Society

PHILADELPHIA

Through April 30, the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) is hosting a traveling exhibit, “Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home.” In conjunction with the exhibit, PHS welcomed Dr. Hooman Estelami of Fordham University for an event and talk on March 21.

April 11, 2024

Brian McLaren, an in-demand speaker who’s written more than 20 books with one more, “Life After Doom,” coming out next month, spent 90 minutes on Wednesday participating in a webinar with the people who run New York Avenue Presbyterian Church’s McClendon Scholar Program.

April 11, 2024

As a new generation of young writers looked on with gratitude toward the veteran members of the Presbyterian Writers Guild, who had gathered at Agnes Scott College’s Center for Writing and Speaking on April 5 to share in dedicating the Guild’s gift of its entire organizational endowment, emotions ran unexpectedly high.

April 10, 2024

The Rev. Dr. Charles Halton, winner of the 2024 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book “A Human Shaped-God: Theology of an Embodied God,” published in 2021 by Westminster John Knox Press, delivered an insightful and inspiring talk Tuesday in Caldwell Chapel at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Watch Halton’s talk here.

Before that, committee leaders learn plenty about the work they must complete during the GA’s June 25-27 online committee meetings

April 10, 2024

Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service

LOUISVILLE

The more than 130 people attending the General Assembly Leadership Briefing both online and at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky, put in a full day on Tuesday, learning more about their roles as committee leaders and even witnessing a skit depicting a mock committee meeting that nearly went off the rails before righting itself at the end.

April 10, 2024

Seeing the “diamond ring” is the holy grail of amateur astronomers: that moment in a total solar eclipse when the edge of the sun’s corona bursts forth with a sparkling burst of light at one point while the rest of the rim is illuminated like a ring. I had no chance of seeing that where I was, located many miles away from the path of totality. All I saw was a solar “croissant.” But I did consider the experience holy. 

April 10, 2024

“This annual lecture continues Dr. Cone’s dynamic legacy of prophetic Black theological and religious thought that pushes hard against the conscience of America,” said the Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, who held a moment of reverent pause as she asked the audience to consider the legacy of the Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, who had been a professor at Union for 50 years. Cone died in 2018. The event on April 3, held at the seminary’s James Chapel and streamed online, was the fourth annual lecture to be held in his honor.

How General Assembly committees will use MyGA, PC Biz and GA Preparation

April 9, 2024

Fred Tangeman | Office of the General Assembly

LOUISVILLE

Tuesday morning at Leader Briefing, committee leaders and committee support staff for this summer’s 226th General Assembly learned ways that technology, including the expanded MyGA website, will help them manage their committee business. They also learned how trainings and resources on the GA Preparation site will acquaint them with wider assembly processes and members of their committees.

Committees will gather virtually June 25-27 prior to in-person plenaries in Salt Lake City.  

April 9, 2024

The fourth episode of the “Around the Table” podcast series features Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastors talking about how parents can have faith conversations with their children throughout different stages of the child’s life. Listen to the 32-minute edition here.

April 9, 2024

From April 6-9, Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in partnership with the Office of Christian Formation of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, hosted an intergenerational Creation care event culminating in three and a half minutes of the total solar eclipse on Monday.