When one considers the current political climate, whether within the United States or around the world, “forgiveness” might not be the first word that comes to mind. But forgiveness, said the Rev. Donald Shriver Jr., an ethicist and former president of Union Theological Seminary, is exactly what’s needed.
Group will help PC(USA) determine next steps in its peacemaking witness
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — The Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry area (CPJ) and the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) have announced the selection of the Peace Discernment Steering Team.
GENEVA (ENI) During its meeting here, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee passed judgment on the ecumenical movement’s progress on gender justice: too little.
LOUISVILLE — A group of eight students and two advisors from the University of Arizona Presbyterian Campus Ministry (PCM) ― along with 13 Peruvian partners and youth and PC(USA) mission worker Jed Koball ― were attacked in La Oroya, Peru March 16 as they painted a mural near the troubled Doe Run Company smelter there.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) In February, the General Assembly’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) committee concluded engagement efforts with Time Warner that the church called successful.
LOUISVILLE, KY. (PNS) After years of downsizings and organizational changes, the office of Collegiate Ministries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is back — and a newly assembled task force is working to discern the state and future of collegiate ministry within the church.
LOUISVILLE – The Rev. Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has written a letter to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, urging him to call off a plan to balance the state budget in part by de-unionizing state workers.
SAN DIEGO – Since he began serving as executive presbyter of the Presbytery of San Diego in 2007, the Rev. Clark Cowden said the presbytery has focused on being a missional church.
