What can you learn from the past to help shape the work of the present and future?
This topic is of special interest to members of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. Since last June, the organization has been focusing on the call to defund police in light of several law enforcement shootings of people of color and the ongoing conversation about inequity in the U.S.
It can be heady stuff when the likes of The New York Times, National Public Radio and CNN call to ask about your new ministry for stories that will receive national play.
But for two pastors with Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, the Revs. Emily Brewer and Deanna Hollas, the increased media attention gives Presbyterians working to prevent gun violence “a really big microphone,” as Hollas puts it.