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Ten churches in the Presbytery of the Twin Cities area were certified as an Earth Care Congregations by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Presbyterian Hunger Program through February 2027. The Earth Care Congregation certification is designed to recognize churches that take seriously God’s charge to “till and keep” the garden, that is our shared common home. These ten churches include: Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis; Cherokee Park United Church, St. Paul; Westmin

YOU/WE ARE THE OGHS--SDOP G.O.A.T (or at least the greatest in my time on the committee): PTCA’s portion of last year’s OGHS *** offering for 2026 SDOP grants is …. [drumroll --- fireworks ---laser light show … streamers] … $19,419.33!!!! That’s almost twice the largest distribution in the past 10 years AND triple the amount we had budgeted for the ministry of combatting racism & economic inequality in 2025!!!!! Hip Hip Hurray! We have truly outdone ourselves: thank you …

Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong will open your eyes and your heart. She was born with spinal muscular atrophy, started using a wheelchair in elementary school, and went on to become a determined and effective disability advocate. One of her great contributions was broadcasting the voices and viewpoints of people with disabilities. After studying and working in medical sociology, she founded the Disability Visibility Project, sharing oral histories of peopl

Free  2026 Susan Draper White Lecture with Dr. Ellen T. Armour at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities on February 23rd at 6:30pm. There is an option to attend online, or here at the Seminary. Among the many issues dividing Americans these days is the conflict over how we should understand, see, and treat people whose gender identities break with norms. This is a conflict where religion, gender, and politics come together—familiar terrain for feminist theologians of