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Christian Education for the Now Generation

April 16, 2014
Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. –Ecclesiastes 11:10

Ah but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. –Bob Dylan

American Presbyterians prepared for the youth movement of the late 1960s a decade in advance. Responding to the radical changes in American families and society at large following the Second World War – the growth of suburbs, the dominance of the automobile, the power of teen culture – the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of...

Author: 
David S
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Congregations, American History, Resources
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On the Third Day

April 11, 2014
Cover art from The Beauty of God's Green Earth, sermons by John Allan MacLean.

Like many citizens of the world, American Presbyterians have changed their approach to environmental conservation through the years. In the nineteenth century the nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination encouraged a localized, private form of ecological witness, often through church publications. Today, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) regularly issues panel recommendations and press releases advocating a coordinated, planet-wide defense of what God created...

Author: 
Charlene
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American History, News and Events, Environment
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The Cowboy Sunday School Minister

March 5, 2014

“…To a great many people, ‘Go ye into all the world’ means only going to China, Japan, Africa, or to some distant place across the sea; but to the Sunday school missionary it means going into the most isolated and neglected parts of his field…It often means dim and rugged trails over the mountains or across the parched sands of the desert. It means visiting that lonely and isolated home or community, for the Sunday school missionary must ever be primarily a trailblazer, a pioneer in the work of the Kingdom…” —Ralph J. Hall, in ...

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American History, Sacred Spaces, Mobile Missions, Roger Sherman, Ralph Hall, New Mexico
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Presbyterians Play Ball

February 12, 2014

The hellfire-and-brimstone preacher with a knack for stealing second, the master of the fadeaway, a mild-mannered Whiz Kid, and one lucky fan: with great relief that Major League Baseball's pitchers and catchers have reported to Spring Training in Florida and Arizona, we bring you four stories of baseballing Presbyterians.

No history of baseball and Presbyterians can ignore Billy Sunday. Born William Ashley Sunday, son of William Sonntag, near Ames, Iowa in 1862, Sunday was discovered playing for a fire brigade team in Marshalltown by the legendary

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Author: 
David S
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American History
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A Time to Stand Firm

February 12, 2014
 
United Presbyterians prepared for their 1964 General Assembly in an environment rife with uncertainty and change. Civil rights had become a prominent national issue the year before with the March on Washington and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four African-American girls. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy had deepened national divides. What, many wondered, would the new year bring?

Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., was an outspoken proponent of the civil...

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American History, General Assembly, African American History, Civil Rights
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