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Celebrating a late great presbytery

Posted February 16th, 2023

Fresh off his appearance in a 12-minute video explaining the historical importance of Catawba Presbytery, the Rev. Dr. Ed Newberry told “Leading Theologically” host the Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty he’s been enjoying his retirement in part “to have the leisure time to explore what I’ve been curious about.”

Guatemala mission partners focus on relief rather than reunion

Posted November 18th, 2020

The ministry of presence is important in God’s mission. Yet even when a global pandemic causes cancellation of short-term mission trips, congregations and presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are showing care and compassion in creative and urgently needed ways from afar.

Matthew 25 in Iran

Posted April 30th, 2020

A reunion between a Peace Corps volunteer in Iran in the 1960s and one of her students recently made the national news.

Theological education leader Joyce C. Tucker dies

Posted July 14th, 2019

The Rev. Dr. Joyce Cummings Tucker, a Presbyterian pastor, author, and prominent leader in theological education, died Friday, July 12, in New York City following a short illness. She lived in Princeton, N.J.

Pioneering missionary and pastor Elizabeth (Libby) McAliley passes at age 90

Posted August 1st, 2018

Libby McAliley served for 23 years as a Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) missionary in the Belgian Congo. She completed a Masters of Christian Education in 1959 and received a Master of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in 1973. That same year, McAliley became the first woman in South Carolina to be ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.