Grayde Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, and Linda Valentine, Executive Director of the General Assembly Mission Council, released a letter to churches Legislation regarding immigration has prompted church leaders to take notice for some time. Indiana’s attempt to…
Read more »Register now for the Peacemaking Conference at the Big Tent! Download a registration form. Growing Christ’s Peace And a harvest of justice is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace June 30- July 2, 2011- Indianapolis, Indiana The Peacemaking…
Read more »The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who: challenged us to develop a world perspective reminded us that individuals do not live alone called us back to the challenge of making this one geographical world one neighborhood exhorted us to…
Read more »How does repentance lead to forgiveness and reconciliation and the future in public life? How do we learn to love a country enough that we remember its misdeeds? What can other countries learn from the South African experience of the…
Read more »The UN Special Rapporteur on religious freedom and tolerance returned from an eight-day trip to Paraguay. The Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief is an independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. The Rapporteur has been…
Read more »Presbyterian Women have a new resource available to help us pray for and learn about the Roma people. This prayer resource is designed for use beginning on March 30. Here is a description from the introduction: The International Day of…
Read more »The Reverend Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued the following statement in response to the bombing in Jerusalem today: We have received word today of the detonation of a bomb near a…
Read more »Reposted from Forgiven, Freed, Empowered…Witnessing to God’s Promise, http://presbyterianwomenblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/csw-55-round-up.html As the flags in front of the UN continue to flap in the breeze, Presbyterian participants in this year’s Commission on the Status of Women have returned home, agreed conclusions have…
Read more »PLURAL+ 2011 Youth Video Festival on Migration, Diversity & Social Inclusion Calls for Youth Participation Building on the successes of the past two year’s of PLURAL+, a youth video festival on migration, diversity and social inclusion, the United Nations Alliance…
Read more »By Cindy Eschliman It is not often that I am put in a position of being in the minority. I am a young, white woman, who grew up in Hutchinson, KS – the center of the Midwest and I now…
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