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December 28, 2020
Massachusetts State Police, local arson investigators and the FBI are investigating the cause of a Monday morning fire that heavily damaged the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Massachusetts. Read more »
December 23, 2020
As dark December transitions into nearly-as-dark January and February, preachers in need of resources can serve both God and their hearers by preaching the psalms of lamentation. Read more »
December 23, 2020
The Rev. Dr. John F. Stephenson, Jr., a Presbyterian pastor who started a breakfast club called “The Bagel Boys” and continued to serve God despite having to retire from professional ministry in 1980 because of disabling rheumatoid arthritis, died on Oct. 4. He was 89. Read more »
December 22, 2020
The Service of Lament and Hope offered Sunday by Presbyterian Peace Fellowship included a highlight organizers may not have envisioned — poignant online participation by the nearly 30 people gathered to mark the loneliness, heartache and, yes, the hope that people have experienced during a year marked by pandemic, racial injustice, economic devastation and isolation. Read more »
December 21, 2020
The Preaching Lab, a five-part online workshop offered by New Hope Presbyterian Church in Anaheim, California, through a grant by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan, opened Saturday by asking participants to define what preaching means to them. Their definitions included: Read more »
December 20, 2020
Guiding a congregation through a crisis — or even “normal” times — takes a strong leader with courage, vision, flexibility and humility. Read more »
December 20, 2020
A growing Epiphany worship practice is to hand out to church members paper stars, each with a single guiding word for the coming year. Read more »
December 20, 2020
The new year is a good time to take an inventory of hurtful memories, beliefs and other emotional baggage and hand them to God for purging. Read more »
December 20, 2020
Like in biblical times, maybe we have arrogantly fallen into self-confidence about our own importance, wealth and power, thinking we don’t need God. Read more »
December 18, 2020
The Rev. Dr. SanDawna Gaulman Ashley was elected Friday as transitional leader of the Synod of the Northeast. She’ll begin in her new role on March 1, 2021. Read more »