Presbyterian Mission Agency oppression Archives

Don’t weary while doing good

Posted October 27th, 2021

Blacks, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color (BIPOC) are not simply those who are marginalized because of their race. They often find themselves working the hardest for racial justice. My friends of color tell me it is grueling to feel the oppression and to also be left with most of the responsibility for fighting it. Working toward racial justice can be exhausting.

Churches take on racial injustice

Posted August 20th, 2020

Making long-lasting change to nullify racism, we must change our culture, build relationships with people who are different, and foster mutual respect.

Masters-level Black students at Columbia Seminary will have tuition, fees paid for

Posted June 30th, 2020

Columbia Theological Seminary will cover the full cost of tuition and fees for all Black students who apply and are admitted to the seminary’s masters-level programs, the seminary announced Tuesday in a news release.

Struggling to right the wrongs of slavery

Posted December 30th, 2019

At Caldwell Presbyterian, the walls of our sanctuary talk. The voices are those of enslaved African Americans owned by the Caldwell family on a plantation north of our city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Before emancipation, their forced labor, blood, sweat and tears created the fortune that was later given to this church to build its sanctuary in 1922.

When earthly leaders fail, Jesus redeems

Posted May 16th, 2019

We are bombarded by news in our nation and around the world of the manifold ways the rich prey on the poor, the strong oppress the weak, and racism and religious intolerance erupt in horrific acts of violence. Moreover, the leaders of nations continually conspire to create international conflict in their reach for power.