Presbyterian Mission Agency Office of Gender Archives

PC(USA) webinar offers up ways to extend a radical welcome to all God’s children

Posted May 24th, 2023

Radical welcome, defined as “the spiritual practice of embracing and being changed by the gifts, presence, voices and power of The Other: the people systemically cast out or marginalized within a church, denomination and/or society,” was the focus of a recent webinar put on by the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Office of Gender, Racial & Intercultural Justice. Watch the hourlong webinar hosted by Samantha Davis, Associate for Gender, Racial & Intercultural Justice, by going here.

Do the queer community and the church need each other?

Posted October 18th, 2021

Do people in the LGBTQIA+ community need the church? Does the church need people who are LGBTQIA+?

‘Inclusion should be our number one priority’

Posted April 15th, 2021

Toward the end of the Rev. Shanea Leonard’s Gender & Inclusion presentation Tuesday, they presented a slide with puzzle pieces scattered apart on the left and fit together on the right.