Presbyterian Mission Agency racial equity Archives

What we see now is not what we get later

Posted October 26th, 2020

Even though they were recorded months ago, the preaching that was part of the recent Festival of Homiletics touched on topics at the heart of recent days of protests, injustice and anguish.

Jesus Christ and the ‘Dividing Wall’: Race and God’s Mission

Posted September 24th, 2020

How does racial injustice and racism in the United States impact our engagement in God’s mission in the world?

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.

New season of ‘1001’ podcast focuses on racial injustice and faith

Posted June 30th, 2020

In light of what New Way podcast host the Rev. Sara Hayden describes as “the new round of organizing, strategy and action sparked by the most recent, shocking, continual — and yet unsurprising — anti-Black violence of our time,” the podcast of the 1001 New Worshiping Communities movement has begun a new season focused on racial injustice and faith.

Juneteenth in the age of Black Lives Matter

Posted June 18th, 2020

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing those who were enslaved, in January 1863. However, it wasn’t until two years later, on June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. After this, more than 250,000 slaves across Texas learned that they were free.

Global partners express solidarity with US siblings

Posted June 16th, 2020

Presbyterians do mission in partnership and the mutual support has been strong as the U.S. fights pandemics on two fronts, COVID-19 and systemic racism. Below are excerpts of letters, messages, sermons and poems that have been sent to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) They contain messages of love, solidarity and prayer from partners around the world.

Prayer vigil serves as on-ramp for Christians on a journey of discernment

Posted June 15th, 2020

Count on a former architect to see the flaws in existing structures and work tirelessly and faithfully on ways to redesign them.

Southern Africa Presbyterians express solidarity with US in the struggle for racial justice

Posted June 12th, 2020

The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground…” (Genesis 4: 10 NIV) This was the opening passage of a heartfelt and prophetic pastoral message that the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) sent to its congregations condemning systemic and structural injustice and lamenting security force excesses in both South Africa and the United States.

What God’s community looks like

Posted June 5th, 2020

When the Rev. Dr. Rodney S. Sadler Jr. thinks of biblical accounts describing God’s community, the multitude from every nation as described in Rev. 7 springs to his mind, the “diverse panorama of people before the throne of God,” as he told the Presbyterian Foundation’s Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty during Wednesday’s Facebook Live event, “What Does the Lord Require in Uprising?”

Presbytery uses video to call for unity, reconciliation and justice

Posted June 5th, 2020

Staff and members of Mid-Kentucky Presbytery have used the PC(USA)’s most recently-adopted confession, the Confession of Belhar, in a new video designed to remember the victims of violence against persons of color, including Kentuckians Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, George Floyd of Minnesota and Ahmaud Arbery of Georgia.