Presbyterian Mission Agency racial diversity Archives

racial diversity

Report: New Worshiping Communities are more racially diverse and younger than traditional PC(USA) congregations

Posted October 26th, 2021

A recently-released 1001 New Worshiping Community 2020 Leader Report continues to show that NWC’s are more racially diverse and younger than PC(USA) congregations.

Celebrating racial and ethnic diversity

Posted February 8th, 2019

Wow! And what about the Philistines? And are there others who need to be subdued? Tongue-twisting passages like these are the bane of lay readers and a source of fascination for many who heard these wondrous lists of names read on a Sunday morning. They are, of course, a rendering of the ethnic diversity of the world the Hebrews marched into under Joshua and are a “list of enemies” who stood between the children of Israel and the Promised Land.