Happy New Year, everybody! Or, as we sing along with José Feliciano in “Feliz Navidad,” his 50-year holiday hit: “Próspero año y Felicidad” (A prosperous and happy new year). Read more »
In the fall of 2018, youth at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center (BAJCC) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, asked to start a gospel choir. The request reached the Rev. Lauren Ramseur and the Rev. Ashley Diaz Mejias who, along with friends, collaborated to support the initiative. Ramseur and Mejias soon discovered that they were “doing church” — gathering twice a month at the correctional center for a community of worship. The group named themselves the Voices of Jubilee. Read more »
By way of photo submission, Presbyterians are invited to tell the world the ways their church, mid council or organization is carrying out the Matthew 25 invitation. Read more »
Even if we haven’t personally and knowingly done or said anything racist, we should still ask God’s forgiveness for living in a culture stained by racism. Read more »
Retired Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben, a Presbyterian who served as chief of chaplains of the U.S. Navy and chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, was named Friday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more »
The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), was among the denominational leaders participating earlier this month in “What Does God Require of Us? Discerning, Confessing, and Witnessing in an Age of COVID-19 and Beyond,” part of the World Communion of Reformed Churches’ Communion-wide discernment process. Read more »
Massachusetts State Police, local arson investigators and the FBI are investigating the cause of a Monday morning fire that heavily damaged the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Massachusetts. Read more »
As dark December transitions into nearly-as-dark January and February, preachers in need of resources can serve both God and their hearers by preaching the psalms of lamentation. Read more »
The Rev. Dr. John F. Stephenson, Jr., a Presbyterian pastor who started a breakfast club called “The Bagel Boys” and continued to serve God despite having to retire from professional ministry in 1980 because of disabling rheumatoid arthritis, died on Oct. 4. He was 89. Read more »
The Service of Lament and Hope offered Sunday by Presbyterian Peace Fellowship included a highlight organizers may not have envisioned — poignant online participation by the nearly 30 people gathered to mark the loneliness, heartache and, yes, the hope that people have experienced during a year marked by pandemic, racial injustice, economic devastation and isolation. Read more »
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