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UN Secretary-General expresses allyship with women and girls at Town Hall

Posted March 17th, 2022

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres spoke strongly Wednesday about the need to topple the systems that prevent women around the world from achieving parity with men.

Documentary follows trails and triumphs of LGBTQ Presbyterian leaders

Posted March 23rd, 2017

These words are part of the opening screens of the recently released documentary “Out of Order.” The title sequence describes the years-long debate within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that led the denomination’s highest governing body—the General Assembly—to approve an official path to ordination for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) persons at its 2010 gathering. The decision was affirmed by a majority of the church’s presbyteries in 2011.