This policy statement of the 219th General Assembly (2010) encourages “the church at every level—from individual member to congregation, presbytery, synod, and national church—to become informed and active in preventing gun violence, to provide pastoral care for victims of gun…
Read more »View a video clip of the service from Odyssey Networks. Remember. The interfaith group who gathered today in the Tillman Chapel at the Church Center for the United Nations to pray with the people of Sudan in anticipation of the…
Read more »December 18th has been designated International Migrants Day by the United Nations. Download A Liturgy for International Migrants Day and other resources created for this day by the Rev. Dr. Claudio Carvalhaes, professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, at the…
Read more »December 10 is Human Rights Day. From the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study comes this prayer from Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our Father, who has set…
Read more »“The Changing Face of HIV/AIDS” is a new DVD/video by the Presbyterian AIDS Network (PAN). In the United States, the face of HIV and AIDS has changed dramatically in the 30 years since the start of the pandemic. Communities are…
Read more »United Nations Day is October 24. Here is a prayer from one of the resources of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program: Great God, supreme ruler of all the earth, give vision to those who serve the United Nations. With justice and…
Read more »Our colleague Marissa Galván-Valle has provided liturgical resources for World Communion Sunday in Spanish. Apologies for getting them posted so late in the week. Download Ayudas Lituricas Dia de comunion mundial
Read more »Here is a worship resource to approach World Communion Sunday through the lens of Making Peace with God’s Earth. World Communion Sunday Liturgy for October 3, 2010 Prepared by Teresa Stricklen, associate for worship, Office of Theology and Worship, PC(USA)…
Read more »O great rejected stone, you who are the cornerstone of our hope, be not to us a stumbling block, but build us up into a household of justice and peace. Guide us by your law and fill us with your…
Read more »O God of majesty, as we gather today to worship you, disquiet us and your whole creation with your peacemaking Holy Spirit quietly insisting, “Know justice, know peace.” As your Son broke bread and gave it to thousands, so call…
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