The following is a sermon preached by Rev. Nathan Dell based on the text of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James
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Reflections on Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell’s American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us An Unbound editorial by Chris Iosso View and print as PDF Robert D. Putnam, the Bowling Alone author and social scientist, spoke
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By Roger Scott Powers In the following article, pastor Roger Scott Powers says faith and politics do go together. This article appeared originally in the Presbytery of Baltimore’s newsletter, “Discipleship.” Sometimes you hear people say that faith and politics don’t mix. But that notion is antithetical to the
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Unbound interviewed several Christians involved in the world and its public arena. The following are their responses to three questions: 1. What is the #1 reason for the church to be involved in the world? 2. What is your favorite biblical text that speaks to the church’s public role?
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Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations By the Rev. W. Mark Koenig View and print article as PDF “We are ambassadors for Christ.” Those words took on new meaning for me on March 11, 2011—when a tsunami and earthquake hit Japan. The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations has
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Social Media as the New Agora By Patrick David Heery, Unbound Managing Editor Patrick discusses the implications of a new e-ministry that has one leg online and the other on the ground (through churches and local organizers). He challenges Unbound and the church to think strategically about being both
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A Sermon on Isaiah 59:1-4, 9-16, 21 By the Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris Rev. Daley-Harris preached the following sermon at Maryville College Chapel, tracing the progress in Isaiah 59 from complaint to confession to calling. The public square—flyered with eviction notices and photos of children gunned down—is, she argues, precisely
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By Reverend Jeffrey K. Krehbiel The following is an excerpt from Reflecting with Scripture on Community Organizing (c) 2010 by Rev. Jeffrey K Krehbiel. Used with permission of the publisher, ACTA Publications, www.actapublications.com, 800-397-2282. All rights reserved. Copies of the 60-page booklet are available at $5.95 with discounts for multiple copies
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Young adult participation is essential for a new era of political advocacy By Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II View and print as PDF In molding a model for public witness ministry that serves the whole of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I have been confronted with two significant
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By Christian T. Iosso The Rev. Dr. Chris Iosso remembers justice and ecumenism advocate Eugene Carson Blake, former President of the NCC, General Secretary to the World Council of Churches, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church, co-author of the 1953 “Letter to Presbyterians” denouncing McCarthyism, and a man once
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By W. Travis McMaken Occupy Wall Street and the movement it spawned (#OWS) proclaims that our social life together in the United States has been tragically undermined by the concentration of wealth and political influence in the hands of a few, thereby disenfranchising the many. The author undertakes to
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By Douglas Mitchell Associate Pastor for “Faith in Action,” Douglas Mitchell conceived the following article as a presentation for a church adult education class and has adapted it here to propose that the ministry of social justice can in fact be a disciplined spiritual practice bringing us into closer,
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