Presbyterian Mission Agency Racial & Intercultural justice 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+?

Town Hall forum sees anti-racism progress in the PC(USA) but plenty of work remaining

Posted August 26th, 2020

More than 200 people listened in Tuesday while some of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s deepest thinkers and most effective practitioners of anti-racism work shared their hearts and their experiences during a 90-minute Town Hall, part of the Presbyterian Week of Action. View the event here.

Can Youth Triennium generation be the one to end racism?

Posted July 18th, 2019

The Rev. Denise Anderson noticed something about the infamous news footage of white nationalist marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia in the Summer of 2017: Most of them were young.

Former Co-Moderator Denise Anderson joins Presbyterian Mission Agency

Posted August 23rd, 2018

Denise Anderson, Co-Moderator of the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has accepted a new position with the Presbyterian Mission Agency. Anderson has been called as the new coordinator for racial and intercultural justice, working in connection with the agency’s Compassion, Peace & Justice and Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries.