Tag Archives: Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly
Re-Imagining the Church as Spiritual Institution
Affirming Diversity and Life-Sustaining Relationships The following article was originally published in the May/June 1994 edition of Church & Society. Download a PDF of the original here. Listen to the words of Elizabeth, an enslaved woman and minister, born in … Continue reading
Re-Imagining God: Reflections on Mirrors, Motheroot, and Memory
Theological Principles – incarnation, emmanuel, ecclesia – to guide the journey into re-imagining God The following article was originally published in the May/June 1994 edition of Church & Society. Download a PDF of the original here. Barbara de’Souza worked for … Continue reading
Re-Imagining “Re-Imagining” and the Next 20 Years
Address at the Presbyterian Voices for Justice (formerly Voices of Sophia) Breakfast 220th General Assembly, PCUSA July 3, 2012 Pittsburgh, PA This article was originally published on the Presbyterian Voices for Justice (PV4J) website. I’m overwhelmed by the honor of … Continue reading
Hearing the Voices of Peoples Long Silenced: Week 1
Gender 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 … Continue reading