On August 9, Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, N.Y., observed Hiroshima Day with a special morning worship service. As a response to the Word, the story of Sadako Sasaki was told. The worshipers then all folded 100 paper cranes [PDF]. At…
Read more »“God of mercy, you have shown us ways of living that are good: ‘Work for justice, treasure kindness, humbly journey with the Lord.'” So begins a new hymn lamenting gun violence written by the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. The hymn…
Read more »A call to prayer and expression of concern for Honduras comes from the Central America and Mexico Office with information from PC(USA) mission workers Tim and Gloria Wheeler. Here are the prayer requests. During this time of great difficulty in…
Read more »If you were not among the 140,000 people of faith who took part in the conference call about health care reform that took place on August 20 with President Obama, you can listen to the call for the first time…
Read more »The Summer 2009 issue of Peace Notes, the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program’s print newsletter, is available for download. It will come out in print later this month. But you can download it from this blog. Download Peace Notes Summer 2009 [PDF]…
Read more »Spiritual Nurture for Peacemakers this week includes prayers for health, wholeness, and health care and for Sudan. Use or adapt these prayers in private devotion or in corporate worship.
Read more »Prayers this week on Spiritual Nurture for Peacemakers include a prayer for Affordable Housing and Homelessness Sunday, August 9 and a litany of thanksgiving. Use or adapt these prayers for use in corporate worship or individual devotions.
Read more »August 6 marks the anniversary of Hiroshima Day. This is a day to: remember those who died and were wounded by the bombing Hiroshima remember all people of every nation who died and were wounded during World War II recognize…
Read more »Participants in the Presbyterian Peacemaking Conference at the Big Tent took part in three joint worship services. Opening worship on Thursday evening featured the Rev. Anna Carter Florence, homiletics professor at Columbia Theological Seminary, as the preacher. Reflecting on the…
Read more »We gathered on June 27 at the Afton Presbyterian Church. We gathered from different places and different traditions. Church leaders, singers, speakers, political leaders, friends, family, neighbors, a guitar player, and a bagpiper, we gathered. We gathered: to plant and…
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