Communication Archives

Practicing discernment by remaining spiritually disciplined

Posted March 25th, 2022

What is discernment? What is God calling us to do in a particular situation, either as an individual or a congregation or mid council? How do we move forward?

A nation of shut-ins

Posted March 17th, 2022

Until the pandemic, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor spent a lot of her time meeting deadlines, paying careful attention to a full calendar and making sure to get to the airport two hours before her flight departed. In those days she flew a lot.

Registration open for upcoming communications workshop

Posted March 17th, 2022

Registration is now open for the first quarterly Presbyterian Communicators Network (PCN) communications workshop for 2022.

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s executive director stepping down

Posted March 16th, 2022

The Rev. Emily Brewer, the executive director of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, announced Wednesday she will step down at the end of April.

Celebrating multilingual spaces

Posted March 16th, 2022

“Language hospitality celebrates multilingual spaces,” affirms Stephanie Vasquez, who begins serving as the Manager of Global Language Resources in the Administrative Services Group of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation on Monday.

Stated Clerk joins other faith leaders to urge more work on Puerto Rico’s debt crisis

Posted March 16th, 2022

The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has joined other faith leaders to endorse a letter asking Congress and the Biden administration to continue the work of addressing debt crisis in Puerto Rico.

Board of Pensions releases Board Bulletin for Spring 2022

Posted March 14th, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — Nearly eight years ago, The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) entered an era of transformation. The 221st General Assembly (2014) had elected a new class of directors to the agency’s board and confirmed the election of a new Board of Pensions president. Today, those directors are near the end of their terms. They were celebrated at the Board of Directors meeting March 10-12.

Webinar encourages prophetic preaching during times of trouble, including right now

Posted March 3rd, 2022

Given the state of the world, particularly in Ukraine, encouraging preachers to stretch into prophetic preaching seems timely, even during this season of repenting and walking with Jesus to the cross.

The Rev. Paul G. Moon, the first Korean American to stand for GA moderator, dies at age 87

Posted March 1st, 2022

The Rev. Paul G. Moon of Forest Hills, New York, the first Korean American to stand for moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), died Feb. 20 in hospital hospice due in part to dementia. He was 87.

‘We need to talk about voting’

Posted February 16th, 2022

“We need to talk about voting,” Dr. Rodney S. Sadler Jr. of Union Presbyterian Seminary said to kick off a 90-minute webinar Tuesday titled “Our Voices, Our Votes, Our Freedoms,” “making sure we are putting this front and center of any work we’re doing.”