Presbyterian Mission Agency chapel service Archives

Loving our enemies is not only possible — it’s what Jesus requires of us

Posted March 14th, 2024

Fittingly, Wednesday’s Chapel service put on by Presbyterian Publishing Corporation staff featured a thoughtful and challenging sermon by an author published in November by Westminster John Knox Press.

Presbyterian pastor preaches on a proverbial prototype

Posted March 7th, 2024

From childhood, the Rev. Dr. Anita Wright, the pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Montclair, New Jersey, has thought Wonder Woman — especially Linda Carter’s version — was wonderful.

The PC(USA)’s Special Offerings director takes a page from ‘Lennox Hill’ during Wednesday’s Chapel service

Posted February 22nd, 2024

According to the Rev. Wilson Kennedy, people doing the work of ministry do well to remember the words of a pair of neurologists who star in the Netflix documentary series, “Lennox Hill”: “Remember, there is a person here.”

PC(USA) Chapel Service preacher: ‘Thank God for the midwives!’

Posted January 10th, 2024

The online weekly Chapel Service held most Wednesdays by and for the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) had three observances to mark: Monday’s birthday celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Matthew 25: Dismantle Structural Racism Sunday as well as Racial & Intercultural Justice/Presbyterians Affirm Black Lives Matter Sunday.

Epiphany traditions awaken sense of wonder across the PC(USA)

Posted January 5th, 2024

With crayons at the ready and voices lifted high, the PC(USA)’s chapel coordinating team called members of the national staff together for online worship Wednesday to celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord/Día de los Reyes (Day of the Three Kings), which is observed on Jan. 6.

One last time, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PC(USA) delivers like the prophets of old

Posted June 28th, 2023

As he does frequently, the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II spoke a prophetic word Wednesday during the Chapel Service at the Presbyterian Center and broadcast via Zoom. Wednesday’s service at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky, marked the final time Nelson will preach as Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Sermon during PC(USA) Chapel service offers powerful insight to a parable perplexing to many

Posted June 14th, 2023

During Wednesday’s online Chapel Service, the Rev. Carlton Johnson helped the PC(USA)’s national staff to celebrate Juneteenth a few days early with a thoughtful and provocative take on Matthew 20:1-16, the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard.

Presbyterian pastor advances the cause of reproductive justice

Posted May 12th, 2023

At SACReD, the Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity, which the Rev. Angela Tyler-Williams serves as co-director for movement building, religious leaders, organizers, academics and congregations work together to advance the cause of reproductive justice.

Madison McKinney, an Indigenous person and a Presbyterian, invites the church ‘to sit with me in this pain’ of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people

Posted May 3rd, 2023

Each year as May 5 approaches, which is the National Day of Awareness & Action for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People, Madison McKinney feels what she called on Wednesday “a heavy burden in my heart.”

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) offers its first Transgender Day of Remembrance service

Posted November 15th, 2021

The morning of Nov. 17, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will offer its first-ever denominational worship service commemorating the Transgender Day of Remembrance.