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May 30, 2007
Presbyterian preaches about freedom on ‘Day 1’
Joanna Adams featured on July 1 radio broadcast
by Nan Ross
Episcopal Media Center
ATLANTA — The Rev. Joanna Adams, pastor of Morningside Presbyterian Church
in Atlanta, returns July 1 as featured speaker on “Day 1,” a nationally broadcast radio program also accessible by podcast.
The program includes a sermon preached by Adams and a five-minute interview
with her conducted by the program’s executive producer and host, Peter Wallace.
Adams’ sermon is titled “The Predicament of Freedom,” and she incorporates
reflections on Independence Day with St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians. She says, “God created us, women and men, with the capacity and the responsibility to act as free moral agents. The desire for freedom is not simply a function of the human spirit. Its source is the free will of God.”
Adams is a graduate of Atlanta’s Emory University and Columbia Theological Seminary,
and she has served several Atlanta-area congregations. In 1991 she was called as pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in northwest Atlanta, becoming the only woman to hold this position in a parish of this size in the United States. She held the position for 10 years. After serving as the co-pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, she returned to the Atlanta area in 2003.
Formerly known as “The Protestant Hour,” “Day 1” has been broadcast every week for 62 years, winning numerous awards in the process, including the George Foster Peabody Award and the 2003 Crystal Award for Excellence in inspirational radio. It is produced by the Alliance for Christian Media in association with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ. |
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