Taking a Stand for Racial Justice in the South Video used with permission from the Presbyterian Historical Society, part of the Living History
Keep ReadingResources available courtesy of Rev. Teresa Stricklen from the PC(USA) Office of Theology and Worship. Saturday December 18 begins the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which was started by the World Council of Churches (WCC) in order to fulfill
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Interviews with Educators To start off this issue, the editors of Unbound thought decided to get some input from some of the people who are most familiar, most involved, and perhaps most passionate about these issues: those who serve and have served as professional educators. The following teachers, advisers, administrators,
MoreUnbound: What was your role in the education system? David: I taught at Horace Mann Elementary School in Washington, DC, for 2 years. I served first as a 2nd Grade assistant teacher, then as a 4th Grade long-term substitute (for a woman on maternity leave), and finally as a Pre-K-to-2nd-Grade
MoreUnbound: What is your role in the education system? If a teacher, what age and subject matter do you teach? Katie: I am a Music Educator, currently teaching High School Choir. Unbound: At what type of school do you work? Katie: I teach at a public suburban high school. Unbound:
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Do you have a teacher story? It seems to me that most people do. Many of us, when asked, can easily recall a story of a mentor figure who encountered us at just the right moment in our lives, the teacher who taught us a lesson much more important and
MoreGender Justice 2014 Week 1 Stories That Need to Be Told, Rev. Ginna Bairby Daughters of Eve: Biblical Women Take Back the Microphone, Miriam Foltz and Rachel Shepherd The Cry of Tamar, Rev. Marci Auld Glass Re-Imagining “Re-Imagining” and the Next 20 Years, Sylvia Thorson-Smith Re-Imagining God: Reflections on
MoreMothers for Justice is a grassroots group that has done work in partnership with Self-Development of People. Ginna: Can you tell me a little bit about who Mothers for Justice (MFJ) is and what you all do? Kimberly Clark: Mothers for Justice is a grassroots advocacy group that organizes, trains,
MoreGender Justice 2014 The Right to Come Home: Midrash on the Great Woman of Shunem and Palestinian Refugees, Barbara Kellam-Scott She wouldn’t be a refugee any more if she could come back to the home she had made. She’d left seven years ago, at the urging of the man of
MoreGender Justice 2014 Re-Imagining the Church as Spiritual Institution, Rev. Joan M. Martin Listen to the words of Elizabeth, an enslaved woman and minister, born in Maryland in 1766: “I betook myself to prayer and in every lonely place I found an altar.” And to this Berber proverb: “The true
MoreGender Justice 2014 Stories That Need to Be Told: Opening Editorial, Rev. Ginna Bairby I am a somewhat-embarrassingly dyed-in-the-wool Presbyterian. I was baptized at a PC(USA) Church, where I attended worship, Sunday school, and various programmatic activities virtually every week from my baptism to my high school graduation. I spent
MoreAn Opening Editorial on Silenced Women’s Stories “The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation,
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