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Presbyterian Writers Guild seeks Best First Book nominations

Posted January 11th, 2022

The Presbyterian Writers Guild is accepting nominations now for its 2022 Best First Book Award, honoring the best first book by a Presbyterian author published during the calendar years of 2020–2021.

Louisville Presbyterian Furlough Home receives a proper send-off

Posted August 23rd, 2021

For more than a half-century, the Louisville Presbyterian Furlough Home has been a place of respite for more than 350 mission co-workers working overseas in World Mission for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Whether the country where they walked alongside their partners was undergoing civil strife or they just needed a few weeks to recharge after years of work in the mission field, Furlough Home, on the campus of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, provided them a safe, quiet and welcoming haven.

Presbyterian Writers Guild offers panel on hymn-writing

Posted July 26th, 2021

As congregations — and congregational singing — return to in-person worship, the Presbyterian Writers Guild is sponsoring a one-hour panel presentation on hymn-writing featuring three renowned Presbyterian hymn composers.

Love, prayers and masks from Changhua Presbytery

Posted August 4th, 2020

No sooner had the small delegation from the Presbytery of Mid-Kentucky — its general presbyter, stated clerk and moderator — renewed their passports and booked their flights to Taiwan than COVID-19 postponed their plans. Ever since three representatives from Changhua Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, Mid-Kentucky’s international mission partner, had traveled to Mid-Kentucky in May 2019, the Revs. John Odom, Jerry Van Marter and Angela Johnson had long been looking forward to their reciprocal visit.

Presbyterian Writers Guild seeks Best First Book nominations

Posted October 29th, 2019

The Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG) is accepting nominations now for its 2020 Best First Book Award, honoring the best first book by a Presbyterian author published during the calendar years of 2018–2019.

Houston Hodges dies at age 89

Posted June 7th, 2019

When Houston Hodges — a dyed-in-the-wool rural Texan — accepted a call to serve as associate executive presbyter for the Presbytery of San Francisco in the mid-1970s, the most daunting part of the job was navigating Bay Area traffic.