by Arthur Fullerton | June 29, 2020 | EqualityLGBTQMore LightPCUSA | Blog, Equality
I recently stood for Co-Moderator of the 224th General Assembly of the PCUSA. Westminster Presbyterian Church is part of a larger Christendom and within this country part of the larger Presbyterian Church USA. We are called Presbyterian largely because of how we are... Read more
by Bill Henderson | June 12, 2020 | BLMLovingKindnessRacialEquality | Blog, News, Racial Justice
The last few weeks have seen a huge outpouring of support for the safety of and respect of people of color in light of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In Albany Presbytery, which is mostly white, many of our ministers and church members lamented that the... Read more
by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | May 27, 2020 | | Blog, COVID19, Creation Care
That is what has happened to us. We have been broken open as a nation and as the world. Indeed, given the way things were going it was it was probably inevitable. Short- sightedness with its focus on power and money, combined with neglect of the larger systems of... Read more
by Bill Henderson | April 27, 2020 | | Blog, COVID19, Worship
It is the first Sunday after the ‘all-clear’ is given in NY. All the church members happily enter the church building exchanging hugs. The Lord’s Supper returns to normal, as the Peace of Christ is passed with warm handshakes. No, none of that is going to happen. It... Read more
by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | April 22, 2020 | earthday | Blog, Creation Care
Gracious God, Creator of all that is, we give thanks and praise to you for all you have brought into being: the earth, sun, moon, stars, and the universe so vast we measure it light years. Your works are beyond our full comprehension. We stand in awe of your majesty... Read more
by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | April 17, 2020 | | Blog, Creation Care
It sort of feels that way, doesn’t it? On Holy Saturday, the followers of Jesus were being careful and hunkering down. St. John in his Gospel says, “The doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews.” In other words, they were... Read more
by Albany Presbytery Office | April 15, 2020 | | Blog
Rebecca (Becca) Lawson Putman grew up in Byram Township in northwestern New Jersey and attended the First Presbyterian Church of Sparta, where she was both baptized and confirmed. She went to college at Ursinus College, where she majored in German and minored in... Read more
by Rev. Michael Burkley | April 9, 2020 | | Blog
Nothing quite brings us together—or drives us apart—as the joint experience of (even the threat of) suffering and death. From the moment that the wider world learned of a new virus causing widespread respiratory illness and death in China, many scientists in academia,... Read more
