I did not grow up Presbyterian, and I can’t identify as a ‘cradle’ or ‘prenatal’ Presbyterian, or any of the ways that
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The following is reprinted exactly from CláudioCarvalhaes.com Dear Friends, Please see below the sermon I preached at Presbyterian Youth Triennium, July 20, 2013. In many ways it will frustrated you! that is because the sermon alone, here, cold, just won’t do
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“We come to the march behind and with those amazingly able leaders of the Negro Americans who, to the shame of almost every white American, have alone and without us mirrored the suffering of the cross of Jesus Christ; they have offered their bodies to arrest and violence, to the
MoreI did not grow up Presbyterian, and I can’t identify as a ‘cradle’ or ‘prenatal’ Presbyterian, or any of the ways that I have heard born-and-bred Presbyterians describe themselves in order to firmly establish their Presbyterian street cred. No, as my longtime Presbyterian pastor once told my Committee on the Preparation
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“But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”– Amos 5:24 The true test of Christian faith is how it is lived out in the context of social realities. Each weekend, millions of believers gather in places of worship throughout North America for inspiration, fellowship and
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A NEW GENERATION BEFORE THE WALLS OF JERICHO By Jill Schaeffer It took a circuitous forty years for the Israelites to cross over the Jordan to confront and be confronted by the land of milk and honey God had promised them. Moses didn’t make it. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t
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Louis Knowles is Interim Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown, a multi-cultural congregation in Elmhurst, NY. He has worked on hunger issues, investment in cooperatives in developing nations, and medical care in India, all through ecumenical Christian organizations. Here in New York City, several hundred young Black and Latino
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Larissa Kwong Abazia serves as the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Forest Hills, NY, a multicultural, multiethnic congregation representing 25 countries. She has written a chapter in the forthcoming book, Streams Run Uphill: The Pastoral Identity and Ministry of the Other Clergywomen I am a product of the
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Claudio Carvalhaes, theologian, liturgist, performer, writer and activist, teaches at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA. I believe that this is one of the most important racial events that happened in this country recently, and that we must deal with it. This excerpt from a sermon I preached at Big
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Jerrod B. Lowry is a proud graduate of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary of The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA. After graduating he served as a tent maker; pastor at St. Paul PC (USA) in Louisburg, NC and Associate for Specialized Ministries for the Presbytery of New Hope. Jerrod
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The Reverend Nancy J. Benson-Nicol is the Associate for Gender and Racial Justice in Office of Gender and Racial Justice. Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they
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Race and Remembrance in light of Trayvon Martin Verdict. I don’t know how my mother walked her trouble down I don’t know how my father stood his ground I don’t know how my people survive slavery I do remember, that’s why I believe “I Remember, I Believe” by Bernice Johnson
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