Presbyterian Mission Agency children's defense fund Archives

Children’s Defense Fund’s leader draws from the Parable of the Sower to illuminate the agency’s work

Posted July 23rd, 2024

Channeling Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), the Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson resonates with her reasoning: “My theory of change,” she’d say, “is the Parable of the Sower.”

Children’s Defense Fund’s leader draws from the Parable of the Sower to illuminate the agency’s work

Posted June 14th, 2024

Channeling Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, the Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson resonates with her reasoning: “My theory of change,” she’d say, “is the Parable of the Sower.”

Philip Young, who ‘served at the heart of the church,’ is dead at age 88

Posted February 6th, 2020

The Rev. Dr. Philip H. Young of Lexington, Virginia, died Wednesday at the age of 88.