It was a hot afternoon in July 2020, five months after the first stay-at-home orders issued in New Jersey had forced residents to shelter in place. Cherry Oakley, moderator of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, was thinking hard in the front seat of her car. She lamented the racial and economic injustice laid bare by the pandemic.
Dr. Shannon Craigo-Snell literally co-wrote the book on becoming an ally in the struggle for justice. So when she states that’s easier said than done for white people trying to be allies with their siblings of color — as opposed to straight people looking to do something similar for their LGBTQ+ siblings — it’s time to take notice and take action.
Millions of Americans were surprised and shocked when insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 attempting to stop the certification of the November presidential election.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness (OPW) is joining more than 400 faith, human rights, civil society, and labor organizations in calling on the administration of President Joe Biden to join a global movement to make COVID-19 vaccines more widely available around the world.
Since the Feb. 1 military coup in Myanmar, peaceful protesters practicing non-violent civil disobedience have been met with bullets, tear gas and the fear of being dragged from their homes in the middle of the night.
Six weeks after homegrown terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol Building, the congregation of Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., continues to feel the emotional impact.
“How would you like an uplifting story?”
The question came in an email from the Rev. Catherine McMillan, a minister of the Reformed Church of Zürich in Switzerland.
Members and friends of First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, are putting their money where their mouth is with their Love Bomb initiative. And for the month of February, they are bombarding Black-owned businesses with their love in support of Black History Month.
The rise of neo-populism across Europe and the Church’s role in confronting it were at the heart of a webinar Thursday sponsored by World Mission’s Office of the Middle East and Europe.
Unbound: An Interactive Journal on Christian Social Justice has launched a new tradition of amplifying the voices of under-heard communities with its Lenten and Advent devotionals.
