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Presbyterian Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to lead the US Bureau of the Census, dies at age 96

Posted March 8th, 2023

Barbara Everitt Bryant, a Presbyterian and the first woman to lead the U.S. Bureau of the Census, died March 2 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 96. Among her three children is Linda Bryant Valentine, the former executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

‘Leading Theologically,’ a PC(USA) broadcast, explores the joys of serving a pastoral residency

Posted December 12th, 2022

Pastoral residencies — post-seminary experiences designed to enhance and broaden ministry capabilities of fledgling pastors — received a fond gaze back last week from some of the people who best know the programs, which are scattered around the country.

Patient, persistent advocacy by ‘squeaky wheel’ daughter helps change burial policy at Arlington National Cemetery

Posted January 23rd, 2020

If Kanda Fletcher’s late father — a former prisoner of war during the Korean War— had been a military officer, he would have received full military honors when he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery last June.