We marked each Sunday in our Advent season with God’s promises for hope, peace, joy, and love. We lit candles at church or in our homes as tangible signs of these promises fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Read more »
December 24, 2021
Becoming flesh
We marked each Sunday in our Advent season with God’s promises for hope, peace, joy, and love. We lit candles at church or in our homes as tangible signs of these promises fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Read more »
For its final broadcast of 2021, Between Two Pulpits brings viewers up to date on a Minnesota congregation’s innovative — and productive — Alternative Christmas Marketplace. 
Davis Mills looked down at the painting in a box in the back parking lot of First Presbyterian Church in Mayfield, Kentucky, late Saturday afternoon and said, “That’s what it used to look like.” 
Rick Ufford-Chase, a ruling elder and the Moderator of the 216th General Assembly (2004), and the Rev. Ashley DeTar Birt, who last spring co-founded, along with Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary and the Presbytery of Utica, co-founded the Center for Jubilee Practice, appeared last week on A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast. The two talked about their work studying, among other things, how churches might facilitate conversations around reparations in light of the wealth gap between Indigenous and African American families and white families in the U.S. 
MLK Day is a national day of service intended to share the wealth of the earth with all to eliminate hunger, poverty, violence and homelessness. 
Coming together at God’s table nourishes us on our journey through life, demonstrates God’s power and is a witness to the world.
To celebrate Black History Month, a California youth group made a video series honoring prominent African American figures. 
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Westminster College have formed a partnership designed to educate and equip students for ministry in the way of Jesus by combining their undergraduate education with a Master of Divinity degree program. 
Don’t call it “reparations,” because that would require an act of Congress. 
“A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast” is less than a year old, but co-host Simon Doong managed to score a huge interview for the show’s Christmas episode.