A Glimpse of Greatness: The Trans 100

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and More Light Presbyterians celebrates the courage it takes for trans* people to live...

Living into Easter Hope

Many of us observe the Lenten season by giving up certain kinds of luxuries or behaviors as a practice of experiencing...

Who Do We Say That We Are?

Kentucky, where I live, is a very red state. So red, in fact, that some churches hold gun raffles to draw...

Yokes, Oxen, and the Peace of Christ

Take my yoke upon you. My yoke is easy, and my burden light. Every now and then a familiar line from...

A Listening Ear and a Brighter Network

The history of More Light Presbyterians began in 1978, when the General Assembly of the then United Presbyterian Church voted that...

Knowing When to Just Shut Up

Ah, privilege! What a loaded word that is, isn’t it? By just saying that one word, you can depress or enrage...

Joy Moves Us Forward

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain,...

More Light in West Virginia

By Ethel Hornbeck, Director of Spiritual Formation More Light Presbyterians is happy to welcome Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, our first welcoming and...

If a GA Marriage Amendment Goes South

Southerners are evenly divided about the freedom to marry, a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute reveals, with 48%...

Sucker Punched

“Jesus Christ can set you free from the sin of homosexuality.” My sophomore year of college, I came home one day...