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January 27, 2022 By Yonat Shimron   (RNS) — A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum earlier this month over concerns about offensive words. The 10-member board of education in McMinn County, about 60 miles south of Knoxville, voted Jan. 10 to remove […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read John 4:16-30 New Revised Standard Version 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read John 15:1-17 New Revised Standard Version Jesus the True Vine 15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every […]

Robert John Hanna, Sr., 82, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died January 18, 2022. Bob was, according to the Reverend Leslie Johnson, a “good solid member” of Eastlake Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Red River Presbytery) in Oklahoma City. Bob joined the US Air Force in 1956 and retired from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma County in […]

Dresden Cumberland Presbyterian Church suffered significant tornado damage on December 10, 2021 (see additional coverage in our January issue.) However, an unforseen benefit is the church bell was rediscovered. Tornado damage to the church has been determined impractical to repair and the structure will be raised. The session hopes to rebuild later in 2022. Originally […]

Aurora Santana of Zamora, Colombia, in Antioquia near Medellin, has reportedly died. Aurora was a lay pastor at the Iglesia Presbiteriana Cumberland in Zamora (Emaus Presbytery). The widow of the Reverend Arturo Taborda, Aurora was a strong leader in Colombia for women´s ministries. This article is incomplete. More information will be added as it becomes […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read James 4:13-17 New Revised Standard Version Boasting about Tomorrow 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Matthew 13:31-33 New Revised Standard Version The Parable of the Mustard Seed 31 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone […]

Written by Savannah Lamb   My first experience with the Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry was during the 2017 General Assembly and Women’s Convention. I was a Youth Advisory Delegate for the 187th General Assembly in Tampa, Florida. My aunt, Reverend Lisa Oliver, was a commissioner that year so we got to go together. When we […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Matthew 6:19-21 New Revised Standard Version Concerning Treasures 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but store up for yourselves […]