A fourth and final dialogue session, hosted by PERUSA, a PC(USA) World Mission ministry which features partners working in Peru and the U.S., will focus on Indigenous people’s rights in recognition of November being National Native American Heritage Month.
The first of four sessions exploring the book “Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible” commenced Thursday with the author, the Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, joining more than 50 participants for a 75-minute discussion that encompassed the book’s first chapter, “Settler Colonialism, Palestine, and the Bible.”
Eleanor and I met by accident. It was an ordinary day. I was browsing Pearl, the digital collection at Presbyterian Historical Society, for eye-catching content, humming along to whatever song dribbled from my computer’s speakers. Scrolling, scrolling, endlessly scrolling, until — a specter, a ghostly figure in white, prompted me to pause, my finger hovering atop my mouse. Or — no. Not a ghost. A woman.
A longtime partnership was elevated to a higher strategic level recently when a delegation of five United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) representatives visited the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s national offices earlier this year.
The Rev. Dr. Teri McDowell Ott, editor and publisher of the Presbyterian Outlook, conducted the following interview with Doug Dicks, a PC(USA) mission co-worker and regional liaison for Israel, Palestine and Jordan. The article originally appeared in the Presbyterian Outlook and is republished by Presbyterian News Service with permission from the Presbyterian Outlook.