(By Rick Jones, Presbyterian News Service). The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II is calling on Christian denominations to stand firm on social justice issues and get involved. The Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) gave the Sunday morning message to the nearly 1,000 attendees in Washington, D.C. Nelson told the group the nation is…
By J. Herbert Nelson II, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA). {January 27, 2017] President Donald Trump signed an executive order to allegedly protect the nation from terrorists entering the United States. In practice, however, this order serves to further harm those who are the very victims of terrorism, genocide, religious and gender-based persecution,…
(By Peter Johnson, Juicy Ecumenism.) The newly selected Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Rev. Dr. J Herbert Nelson II, recently released a statement about the presidential election entitled, “When Incivility Becomes the Norm.” Nelson characterized his missive as a “response to the violence on America’s streets after the election of Mr. Donald Trump as…
By Dionne Gleaton, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S.C. The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson regards his hometown of Orangeburg as the place where he received the spiritual nurturing and development that propelled him to be elected the top ecclesiastical leader of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The son of the late James Herbert Nelson and…
When J. Herbert Nelson asked his family if he should accept the nomination as Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), his daughter made a clarifying comment. “Daddy, you ought to do it, because you’re a fixer,” she said. Nelson has been a redevelopment pastor, a church planter in an impoverished setting, and an advocate…
By a vote of 447 to 112, the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) elected the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson as its new Stated Clerk for a four-year term. Touted as a historical moment, Nelson became the first person of color in the 300-year history of the Presbyterian Church in the United…
Two candidates were presented to the 222nd General Assembly today to replace the retiring Gradye Parsons as Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA). J. Herbert Nelson II was vetted by and comes with the blessing of the Stated Clerk Nominating Committee and David Baker was nominated by the Presbytery of Tampa Bay. Nelson is well-known…
By Mateen Elass, on his personal blog. It’s a Brave New World. No longer will the members of Presbyterian Church (USA) have to seek out God’s will together to know the mission of the Church. Instead, the Stated Clerk Search Committee has nominated a “priest and prophet” to lead the denomination to utopia. I will reserve personal…
Editor’s note: This article as originally posted Nov. 7, 2015. It is re-posted today as J. Herbert Nelson was announced as the selection committee’s candidate for Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Community organizer, social justice advocate, African American preacher and head of the Office of Public Witness of…
News Release from the Presbyterian News Service. The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson is the nominee to become the next Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church (USA), the committee charged with bringing a candidate to the 222nd General Assembly (2016) announced today. “We, the committee, believe J. Herbert Nelson will be both…