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Shout out to Queen Mary University of London's QMUL for Palestine group www.instagram.com/p/DF-2hBstyD...

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Men's bowling league, Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church, Ferndale MI, 1950s

Would love to know what exactly Meta flagged. One of the last posts before the shutdown had "boycott" as a keyword pres-outlook.org/2025/03/our-...

This ended up being mostly okay. But we can spare David an hour sorting less than a foot of stuff, if we 1) appraise before shipping 2) ship the way normal people do 📦📦📦

Both teams played hard

Looks like they're back! www.instagram.com/presoutlook/...

This is the kind of message I want to see coming into the “Do Good Shit” contact form 😎 It’s kinda giving “I heard about you from a fairy I found under a mushroom”, and I like that style of community organizing, personally.

That is extremely wild!

A long time coming, but here's Gloria Tate reflecting on a text of Katie Cannon's pcusa.org/news-storyte...

I would like to speak with the manager of 20th c folk archiving traditions

Lord forgive me I'm about to go back to the old me (invading the accessioning zone of the archives of the South Georgia Conference of the UMC)

Watched sunset, and heard a dang sermon preached

Listening to questions for the co-mod Tony Larson

Got drafted right into work for a commission of the Synod of South Atlantic. They came up with this unprompted, promise

We are so back 📦📦📦

About Hunter College: Cancelling a Palestine Studies job search because the ad mentions settler colonialism is genocidal thinking. This framework is central to understanding Palestinian--as well as Zionist--historical writing over the last century. It's ideological denial of the right to History.

Extremely cool to find handwritten notes in the official record from 40 years ago revealing a person's sub rosa asks, and then go and interview that person and learn what was up

The domestic mission agency of the Presbyterian Church in America has removed a webpage containing links to advice about how illegal immigrants can avoid being detained by law enforcement authorities.

Great time at #WestminsterPresbyterian with @breyeschow.com today. Talking about welcome, belonging, and the body politic. Cascade Presbytery, @presbyterian Come hear him preach tomorrow Sunday February 23 @ 10:30 AM at Salem First Presbyterian Church

An unsolicited packet that turned out to be good! This is a linen missions map, umm between 1908 and 1912 (basing this on free Bulgaria and Serbia and Ottoman Europe still existing in Macedonia & Albania etc) 📦📦🗃🗃

A group of WNY Presbyterian churches helped 11 refugee families resettle in the area. www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_n...

My dad was one of those people! Though not a student — he was a Presbyterian minister and ended up losing his church in PA because of his support for MLK Jr. As well as shot at by the KKK in Mississippi

THIS APRIL | An eco-justice teach-in titled "Liberating People, Planet, and Religion." When: April 12, 2025 Location: Second Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN (with a virtual option for those not in Nashville or Davidson County area). linktr.ee/religionandj...

An unsolicited packet that turned out to be good! This is a linen missions map, umm between 1908 and 1912 (basing this on free Bulgaria and Serbia and Ottoman Europe still existing in Macedonia & Albania etc) 📦📦🗃🗃

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Passages from the Black Presbyterian archives pcusa.org/news-storyte... Presbyterian Historical Society encourages readers to browse digitized images & its African American History Digital Collection to discover more Black voices and stories. #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth

Alright my Presbyterian polity nerds, The Presbytery of the James is voting on Book of Order (BOO) amendments. I’ll try to update in the comments as we go.

Many Such Cases

You're invited to join us at 1st Presbyterian Church of Anchorage at 11! I'm very happy to share that the fireplace is repaired so there is an added sense of warmth and welcome, and I reckon the word could use that right about now. Bo and Starbuck won't be there; they're dreaming about Maui.

From a new little tranche of Religious News Service photos, a still from the claymation series Davey and Goliath, "Down With School", 1971 #archives #Presbyterians

Tucked inside the first volume of minutes of First Presbyterian Church, Lyons KS, an 1876 receipt for their donation of 3 dollars to the Presbyterian Historical Society "in compliance with the recommendation of the General Assembly"

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is among more than two dozen plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in response to a recission of the Department of Homeland Security’s “sensitive locations” policy. Grateful to the Quakers for leading the way.

We live in bizarre times when Wheaton College, under a conservative Presbyterian president who waged a successful legal attack on Obamacare, is described as having a "leftward drift." So much about this article is silly, but I do think it speaks to a serious issue. 🧵 firstthings.com/god-and-man-...

We mourn the passing of Reverend Donn Moomaw, beloved pastor of Bel Air Presbyterian Church and personal minister to President and Mrs. Reagan for the last 30 years of their lives. He delivered invocations at both of Reagan’s presidential inaugurations, the opening of the Reagan Library, and more.

Churches and Synagogues are suing ICE for its unConstitutional violation of sanctuary. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) among them. www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...

This year's Presbyterian Youth Triennium deadline has been extended to Sunday, February 16th. Learn more on our website: baltimorepresbytery.org/2025-presbyt...

During worship on the final Sunday in Advent, First Presbyterian Church of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, formally surrendered 15% of the proceeds from the recent sale of its church manse to descendants of the Lenape people, the Indigenous stewards of the land on which the church now stands.

Incisive 🏺thread - bone stored in a museum for decades shows greater DNA degradation and abundance of potentially deleterious bacteria than bone that had been left in the ground from the same site, suggesting museum storage had a detrimental effect on biomolecular preservation.