Elijah’s cry from beneath a broom tree resonates today
August 7, 2024
With a selected preaching text of 1 Kings 19:4-8, the account of Elijah asking God for death and God instead providing an angel to minister to the prophet for the long journey ahead, the Rev. So Jung Kim delivered a homily during Wednesday’s Chapel Service for the PC(USA)’s national staff filled with encouragement to care for one another in similar ways.
2024 Kivu Annual Conference
June 29-July 5, Goma, Congo
Rising Up at Pease CRC
Photo: Heather Van Zee
At Pease (Minn.) CRC, Kennedy Van Zee smiled, rocked back and forth in her wheelchair, and moved her arms in time with the music as she sang with some 20 other girls.
At Pease (Minn.) CRC, Kennedy Van Zee smiled, rocked back and forth in her wheelchair, and moved her arms in time with the music as she sang with some 20 other girls.
South Coast Beach Project Going Strong
Photo: South Coast Beach Project
Now in its fourth year, the South Coast Beach Project continues to build into the faith and lives of young adults.
Now in its fourth year, the South Coast Beach Project continues to build into the faith and lives of young adults.
A Radical Pursuit of God’s Kingdom
Sesihle Manzini
While studying at university, Sesihle Manzini started wrestling with South Africa’s legacy of colonization and apartheid.
While studying at university, Sesihle Manzini started wrestling with South Africa’s legacy of colonization and apartheid.
Jumping with joy at United Methodist mission school
Zimbabwe Volunteers in Mission from the Baltimore-Washington Conference organized a day of fun for students at Zimbabwe’s Hanwa Mission, including jumping castles, face-painting, food and more.
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Five Massachusetts churches have Pride flags, symbols torn down in acts of vandalism
[Episcopal News Service] St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Framingham, Massachusetts, was one of five churches in the state that experienced anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism in the past 10 days. The five churches […]
Philippe Petit performs at New York’s St. John the Divine on 50th anniversary of wire-walk between Twin Towers
[Episcopal News Service] Fifty years ago, on the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French highwire artist, made history when he wire-walked on a 131-foot cable, 1,350 feet […]
TryTank Research Institute helps create Cathy, a new AI chatbot and Episcopal Church expert
[Religion News Service] First, there was Xian’er, the cartoon-like, mantra-chanting robot Buddhist monk that China introduced in 2015. Then there was the German “BlessU-2” robot that dispensed blessings using ATM parts, and Pepper, the Japanese robot […]