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Taking the Hygh road

Posted August 25th, 2021

When telling the church’s story, it helps to know one’s own faith story well enough to tell it succinctly and powerfully.

Prodigious Old Testament scholar Patrick D. Miller, Jr. dies at 84

Posted July 28th, 2020

The Rev. Dr. Patrick D. Miller Jr., a prodigious scholar at two seminaries affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), died May 1, in Black Mountain, North Carolina after a long illness. He was 84.

A limping dog and a caring community

Posted February 25th, 2019

Even a limping dog in Bangalore, India, has something to teach us about justice, the Rev. Dr. Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar told worshipers at the Presbyterian Center Chapel in Louisville during this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

‘The Message’ author Eugene Peterson dies at age 85

Posted November 15th, 2018

The Rev. Eugene Peterson, a pastor, author and scholar, died Oct. 22 at his home in Montana. He was 85. He had been hospitalized since early October because of a serious infection, according to his son, Eric Peterson.

Dennis Hughes reflects on love, loss and all the saints

Posted March 16th, 2017

Dennis Hughes has always known that in life—and in death—he belongs to God. But in 73 years of living, he has known the latter all too well.