Welcoming Hope while Living in Lament

Dec 12, 2021 | 0 comments

By Rev. British L. Hyrams Please read Lamentations 3 (slowly and deliberately).  If you are familiar with this text already, please read it in another translation in order to see it with fresh eyes. This chapter is not for the faint of heart and may invoke feelings of...

This Period of Waiting

Dec 5, 2021 | 3 comments

by Natarsha Sanders Advent is not the most wonderful time of the year. At least not for everyone.There are songs to sing, plays to rehearse, goodies to bake, halls to deck, lessons to plan, candles to light, gifts to wrap, emotions to manage, weight to watch. Travel....
For You I Wait: Lament in Advent

For You I Wait: Lament in Advent

Nov 28, 2021 | 0 comments

by David Gambrell The voice of lament resounds throughout the witness of Scripture. The five books of Moses, or Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy), center on the cry of God’s people for deliverance from captivity: “The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out....

An Advocate Anthology: 2022 Annual Event

Nov 14, 2021 | 1 comment

Are you getting excited? In less than three short months our APCE Annual Event will take place in Chicago. And it won’t be just any annual event, it will be a spectacular anniversary celebration as we come together for APCE’s 50th – plus one. So,...

Clouds of Witnesses Blown by the Spirit

Nov 7, 2021 | 0 comments

by Joyce MacKichan Walker, Princeton NJ Almost a year ago, in an Advocate article titled, “The Role of Advocacy for Educators in the PC(USA),” I wrote: Advocacy is something you do until what matters – what is flawed or broken or unjust or simply “not right” – is...
God Loves Circles

God Loves Circles

Oct 31, 2021 | 7 comments

Rodger Nishioka, plenary speaker and preacher God loves circles. Look around. Start with the sun and the moon. Envision the planets moving in their orbits. From the grand and expansive universe, focus on the minute spherical nucleus of the atom. God loves circles....

What Will the Soundtrack Be For the Church in This Generation

Oct 24, 2021 | 2 comments

Lift Every Voice and Sing!  En la lucha hay vida! No matter what people say, you are a child of God! On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., wrote from his jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, that “our destiny [that of Black Americans] is tied to America’s destiny.” ...

Circle of Faith: 50 years + one and beyond

Oct 17, 2021 | 3 comments

 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us” Hebrews 12:1. From an early age, we understand...