With a selected preaching text of 1 Kings 19:4-8, the account of Elijah asking God for death and God instead providing an angel to minister to the prophet for the long journey ahead, the Rev. So Jung Kim delivered a homily during Wednesday’s Chapel Service for the PC(USA)’s national staff filled with encouragement to care for one another in similar ways. Read more »
August 7, 2024
Elijah’s cry from beneath a broom tree resonates today
With a selected preaching text of 1 Kings 19:4-8, the account of Elijah asking God for death and God instead providing an angel to minister to the prophet for the long journey ahead, the Rev. So Jung Kim delivered a homily during Wednesday’s Chapel Service for the PC(USA)’s national staff filled with encouragement to care for one another in similar ways. Read more »
The PC(USA)’s World Mission Office of the Middle East and Europe, in conjunction with several denomination partners, held its second “People on the Move” webinar Monday. It featured representatives from Lesvos Solidarity (Greece) and Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans, located on the U.S./Mexico border. The webinar focused on the challenges faced by forced migration and global trends in migration policy, including externalization of borders, deterrence mechanisms, and capricious immigration legislation and its implications. 
From the majestic magnolias that grace Stillman College’s 105-acre campus and the school’s striking seal, to the plentiful purple hull peas, pole beans and cucumbers that thrive in its community garden, the entire campus is alive with new growth. 
The biggest event at Shaw, Mississippi, I was able to just catch a glimpse of during Freedom Summer in 1964 was the integration of Shaw’s storefront library. 
September 2019: My first trip to Armenia with the Jinishian Memorial Program (JMP) and I knew almost nothing about their work. On one of our excursions in the Armenian countryside, we stopped to visit a dilapidated building, the concrete crumbling, windows broken, stairs not safe to walk on, the grounds overgrown with weeds. It was difficult at best to see the JMP’s vision for this place. That vision was to establish the Sevan Rehabilitation Center (SRC) assuming all the necessary pieces of the project, including funding, came together. The local team’s enthusiasm was apparent and contagious as they described the plans for this endeavor. 
The Welcome Church in Philadelphia, a church without walls, is served by an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor and by the Rev. Schaunel Steinnagel, a Minister of Word and Sacrament with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the associate pastor of The Welcome Church. It’s recognized as a community ministry by the Presbytery of Philadelphia and is a congregation under development in the ELCA’s Synod of Southeastern Pennsylvania. 
This summer marks the 60th anniversary of what was dubbed by white Mississippians an “invasion” by “outside agitators.” 
Building on what he told an online audience on July 9, Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert, Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity and the McClenton Scholar in Residence for the summer at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., spoke Saturday at the church and online on “Preaching Wisely and Living Justly in Unsettling Times.” 
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), through investments of the Board of Pensions, has submitted a proposal to Microchip Technology Incorporated (MTI) requesting its board of directors commission an independent study “to determine whether its customers’ use of its products contribute or are linked to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL).” 
Was it all just an American dream?
That was the provocative title Dr. Gordon Govens and Jim Koon gave their week-long course at Synod School, which concluded last Friday.