PC(USA) News

February 28, 2024

Dr. Phyllis Sanders, Vital Congregations Coordinator for Trinity Presbytery, took on the study “Gaining Wisdom through Vital Conversations: Voices of the Aging” because of what she calls “my innermost desire to continue to learn from the elderly.”

February 28, 2024

Many may recall the Queen of Sheba, who according to 1 Kings 10 caravanned from East Africa to visit King Solomon of the Israelites, a monarch deemed wiser than all the sages of Egypt and the Middle East.

Bronwen Boswell says unification work and General Assembly are among the top items on her agenda

February 27, 2024

Randy Hobson | Office of the General Assembly

LOUISVILLE

In less than six months, the Rev. Bronwen Boswell will complete her time as Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) In an interview with OGA Communications Director Rick Jones, Boswell looks ahead at some of the big challenges/projects that will help set the path for the PC(USA) moving forward.

February 27, 2024

The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, who co-founded the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and runs the Kairos Center housed at Union Theological Seminary, brought the four-week, denomination-wide study of Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America” to a close Monday saying she’s “really excited” that denominational leaders organized the online book study “and so many are interested in this work of becoming poverty abolitionists.”

February 27, 2024

In all her 66 years, Magda Cruz had never witnessed anything like Hurricane María’s power to destroy.

February 26, 2024

Already a pharmacist, Catherine Witte years ago went to seminary to be trained to be a chaplain serving the Indian Health Service. Last week, Witte joined  the Rev. Lee Catoe and Simon Doong, the hosts of “A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast,” for a 48-minute conversation that can be heard here.

February 26, 2024

Two of Minneapolis’ business and community leaders explored efforts to break down barriers and create opportunities for building Black wealth in Minnesota during a Town Talks forum offered by Westminster Presbyterian Church through its Westminster Town Hall Forum last week.

February 26, 2024

Six congregations — two of them churches in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — were selected from 125 entries as 2024 winners of Interfaith Power & Light’s Cool Congregations Challenge.

February 23, 2024

Planning has begun for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s next Young Adult Advocacy Conference, which is set to take place this fall on the Charlotte campus of Union Presbyterian Seminary in North Carolina.

Religious News Service photos preserve telling moments of African American Christian experience

February 23, 2024

McKenna Britton | Presbyterian Historical Society

PHILADELPHIA

As staff members at the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) further familiarize ourselves with the contents of the Religious News Service Photograph Collection, we have discovered powerful photos that speak to the experiences of African American Christians. These images, these moments captured by a lens, allow us to time travel, revisiting the tumultuous and varied history of the mid-20th century, as the collection spans the years 1945 to 1982.

This month, in celebration of Black History Month, we want to share some of the images that grabbed our attention and pulled at our heartstrings. We encourage you to browse digitized RNS images and our African American History Digital Collection in Pearl Digital Collections to find your own.

February 23, 2024

The Rev. Dr. Anita Wright, who serves Trinity Presbyterian Church in Montclair, New Jersey, was selected to be the liturgy writer and preacher for this year’s Celebrate the Gifts of Women.  On Sunday, March 3, churches can share these gifts and use the resources provided by the office of Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries.

February 23, 2024

The first and historic Matthew 25 Summit was held January 16-18 at New Life Presbyterian Church in South Fulton, Georgia. This event was the first in-person gathering for people committed to and interested in learning more about the Matthew 25 movement.

February 23, 2024

Dr. Jasmine L. Harris, a guest earlier this month on the weekly edition of “A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast,” talked about what changes are needed for Black women to be truly accepted, welcomed and empowered while pursuing higher education.

February 22, 2024

A group in Chicago is making sure that people who often get overlooked, such as individuals with disabilities, are seen and heard when it comes to issues related to health, education and welfare.

February 22, 2024

According to the Rev. Wilson Kennedy, people doing the work of ministry do well to remember the words of a pair of neurologists who star in the Netflix documentary series, “Lennox Hill”: “Remember, there is a person here.”

February 22, 2024

When the Association of Partners in Christian Education (APCE) gathered for its annual conference at the Union Station Hotel in St. Louis in late January, conference co-chair Mich Phillips had one key partner in mind – Living Waters for the World (LWW), the global ministry of the PC(USA)’s Synod of Living Waters.

February 21, 2024

A concert offered Sunday at Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Gaffney, South Carolina featured musicians who reimagined hymns in contemporary gospel and jazz styles. 

February 21, 2024

Presbyterian Publishing Corporation gathered four gifted scholars and preachers — all of them with books published by Westminster John Knox Press — for a Tuesday webinar called “Leading with Good News in Difficult Times: Preaching and Teaching at Easter.”

Recommendation to go before 226th General Assembly this summer

February 21, 2024

Rick Jones | Office of the General Assembly

LOUISVILLE

The Presbytery of Milwaukee is being recommended as the host of the 227th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 2026. The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) voted in favor of the recommendation during its virtual two-day meeting last week. Kate Trigger Duffert, OGA’s director of General Assembly planning, said the city can meet all the needs for hosting an assembly.

Stated Clerk joined other church heads of communion with an urgent message of peace

February 20, 2024

Fred Tangeman | Office of the General Assembly

Washington, DC

Last week, the Rev. Bronwen Boswell, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, joined other church heads of communion in the nation’s capital to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The leaders also pressed U.S. government officials to renew funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) and to work for the release of all hostages in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.