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The Presbyterian Outlook

The Presbyterian Outlook

Creating and curating trustworthy resources for the church, the Presbyterian Outlook connects disciples of Jesus Christ through compelling and committed conversation for the proclamation of the Gospel.

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WCC, WEA, Vatican reach accord on proselytizing

WASHINGTON (RNS) Christian missionaries should renounce all “deception and coercive means” of winning converts, according to an agreement released June 28 by a World Evangelical Alliance, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican, which together represent 90 percent of the world’s Christian population.

Vice-moderator takes new call

Landon Whitsitt, vice-moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a pastor from Missouri, has been elected as the new executive and stated clerk of the Synod of Mid-America.

Journey in the Wilderness: New life for Mainline Churches

Journey in the Wilderness: New life for Mainline Churches

by Gil Rendle

Abingdon Press. 2010. 176 pages.

REVIEWED BY Allen D. Timm

 

Last year a group of more than 100 young adults gathered for dinner once a month in a room over a bakery in inner-city Detroit. The Detroit Soup Project invited participants to donate $10 each and to present a project to improve Detroit. They would listen, debate and vote. After each meeting, one of them went out with $800 as a grant for a project that would improve the city of Detroit.

Sharing Possessions: What faith Demands (Second Edition)

Sharing Possessions: What faith Demands (Second Edition)

by Luke Timothy Johnson

wm. b. eerdmans Publishing company. 198 Pages.

 

REVIEWED BY ANDREW FOSTER CONNORS

Luke Timothy Johnson, a first-rate New Testament scholar, begins with a plodding reflection on what it means for human beings to possess anything. Despite this beginning, this book deserves a serious reading. Johnson argues convincingly for an expansive definition of “having” that includes anything over which we claim ownership — relationships, time, principles, values and things.

Free hymn for download : “O God, Our Hearts Were Shattered” – a new hymn for the 10th anniversary of 9-11.

On the afternoon of Sept. 22, 2001, Carolyn wrote O God, Our Words Cannot Express,” a hymn that was used by many churches on that evening and in the days that followed.  It was published in the Presbyterian Outlook at the time, and was mentioned in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, lots of magazines and was on national PBS-TV twice in the USA and the BBC-TV in the United Kingdom.

John Stott dies

            John Stott, an English evangelical who helped introduce the world to the global scope of the Christian movement and is considered one of the most influential evangelicals of his generation, has died.

Nelson arrested while praying for end of debt ceiling impasse

Washington (General Assembly Mission Council) The Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, director of the

PC(USA) Office of Public Witness, was among about 12 religious leaders arrested July 28 in the

U.S. Capitol Building while engaging in public prayers for an end to the debate over whether and

how to raise the federal government's debt ceiling.

The Nicole-habit

When the press release from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary announced last Dec. 11 that Roger Nicole had been called home to heaven a day after his 95th birthday, I breathed a sigh of sadness.

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