Unbound and the Office of the General Assembly take home multiple awards from Associated Church Press and the Religion Communicators Council
by Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service
Photo by Josh Miller via Unsplash
LOUISVILLE — Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) communications staff were among those decorated Thursday night during the Associated Church Press Best of the Church Press Awards ceremony held in Chicago. See the results here.
Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice, edited by the Rev. Lee Catoe, received six awards. It won an Award of Merit for Laurie Lyter Bright’s “The Rebellious Nature of Mary, and the Role of Consent in the Advent Season” and for “Queering the Gospel of Mark: Mark 3” by Brooke Scott. The Mujerista Writers of “Una Jornada Para Surgir: Devocional de Cuaresma Mujerista” won an honorable mention.
The Rev. Lee Catoe
The writers who wrote “Queering the Gospel of Mark” took both an Award of Excellence and an Honorable Mention for their work. Catoe garnered an Award of Excellence for “Did Jesus Really Have a 6-Pack?”
Randy Hobson, Manager of Design and Multimedia in the Office of the General Assembly, won four awards, including an Award of Merit in the Best in Class category for video production for “Preparing for the General Assembly.” Hobson’s “Stated Clerk mourns those killed in Texas church shooting” won an honorable mention, while his “General Assembly Agencies: A Quick Look” was an Award of Merit winner. Hobson’s “The Church Moving Forward Post Pandemic” won an honorable mention.
Randy Hobson
In the Integrated Communications category, “GA News,” which was published online each day during the 225th General Assembly, won an Award of Excellence for the Office of the General Assembly staff. “GA News” also won an Honorable Mention in the category of Convention or Meeting Coverage.
Darla Carter, a communications strategist in the Presbyterian Mission Agency, won an Award of Merit for her piece, “Determined to rebuild, First Presbyterian Church of Mayfield reflects on a year of lessons from a December 2021 tornado.” Mike Ferguson, editor of Presbyterian News Service, won an Award of Merit for “It’s church, and church in its best form.”
Additionally, PC(USA) communicators were honored by the Religion Communicators Council as part of the DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards. Those awards are named to honor the late Victor DeRose and the late Paul M. Hinkhouse, leading lithographers in New York City and longtime friends of the RCC.
The Office of the General Assembly was a category winner for its GA News Digest.
Emily Enders Odom won an Award of Merit for her Look Book piece, “Igniting a Movement with Energy, Intelligence, Imagination and Love.”
Hobson and Rick Jones, the OGA’s communications director, were named a video documentary/educational category winner for their series, “A Word from the Stated Clerk.” Hobson was given an Award of Merit for his “General Assembly Agencies: A Quick Introduction.” Hobson also won for his “TikTok Minister,” a brief video about the Rev. Bethany Peerbolte.
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