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Family and friends gather in Georgia to remember an antiracism giant in the PC(USA)

Posted September 25th, 2024

Family and friends recently remembered the Rev. Dr. Otis Turner as a justice-seeker and a strategic, compassionate soldier for racial justice in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and in the larger society. Turner, the first Black faculty member at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, who later worked for 25 years on the national staff of the Presbyterian Church, died Aug. 2 in Jacksonville, Florida. Sardis Missionary Baptist Church in Dawson, Georgia, hosted his service, which was livestreamed.

Family and friends gather in Georgia to remember an antiracism giant in the PC(USA)

Posted August 20th, 2024

Family and friends remembered the Rev. Dr. Otis Turner on Monday as a justice-seeker and a strategic, compassionate soldier for racial justice in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and in the larger society.

The Rev. Dr. Otis Turner, best known and admired for his antiracism work for the PC(USA), dies at age 83

Posted August 15th, 2024

The Rev. Dr. Otis Turner, a Presbyterian pastor and scholar who was a longtime advocate for racial and social justice, died Aug. 2 in Jacksonville, Florida.