In a time when ministry and outreach to college students is in decline, the Presbyterian Student Center Foundation, known as PresHouse, is thriving on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, its tax-exempt status has been revoked, and the ministry could soon be shuttered.
Q: How can a conference reflect open-mindedness, intentionality, innovation and church leadership all at once?
AUSTIN, Texas (pNS)
C. Ellis Nelson, 95, who contributed to Presbyterian theological education over a 60-year career, died June 9 in Austin, Texas.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has awarded a $50,000 grant to an interfaith mission from New Jersey that is working to provide medical care and education in Haiti.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America has directed its Interchurch Relations Committee to study the denomination’s participation in the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and offer its findings to the 2012 General Assembly.
BATESVILLE, MISS. Paul David Snellgrove died peacefully with his family by his side on April 6, 2011, at age 71.
(rNS) The National Association of Evangelicals is siding with Jews and Muslims in opposing a proposed ban on infant male circumcision in San Francisco.
And it’s happening just in time for the Multichannel Church, as you move beyond Sunday and diversify your ministries in response to..
Each year every Presbyterian church has to elect
new deacons, elders and trustees.
Friending: Real Relationships in a Virtual World
by Lynne M. Baab
Downers Grove, Ill. InterVarsity Press. 185 pages.
re viewed by MARY HARRIS TODD
“It’s going to damage the way people communicate! It’s going to damage
relationships!” some 20th century experts worried when a new communication
technology became common in private homes.
Grand Entrance: Worship on Earth as in Heaven
by Edith M. Humphrey
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press. 244 pages.
reviewed by RONAL D P. BYARS
The liturgist opened the service saying, “Let us call ourselves to worship.”
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (ENI) Migrant religious workers in New
Zealand are welcoming the opportunity to be permanent residents after the
government announced changes to the law on July 19. Starting in November,
an updated temporary visa will allow workers to stay in the country for four
years before applying for residency.
NAIROBI, Kenya (ENI) The Kenyan government has promised to
expand a refugee camp for thousands of desperate Somalis fleeing a drought
crisis in the Horn of Africa, and faith groups and humanitarian agencies are
praising the move.
WASHNGTON (Special to the Presbyterian News Service) On July 11, more than 150 U.S. citizens from faith-based, environmental and human rights organizations gathered in front of the White House to protest the pending Colombia Free Trade Agreement. A Presbyterian presence was prominent among them.
HONG KONG (ENI) The Vatican has excommunicated the Rev. Joseph
Huang Bingzhang, a Catholic bishop in Shantou in the southern Guangdong
province in China, for being ordained without a papal mandate.
NAIROBI, Kenya (ENI) Roman Catholic Bishop Caesar Mazzolari of
South Sudan's Rumbek diocese died suddenly on July 16 at age 74, one
week after the mainly Christian and animist region celebrated its
independence from the mainly Arab and Islamic North.
This is the eighth and final installment of the famed “Harry Potter” film
series. There are no more books to provide the basis for more, unless author
J.K. Rowling decides to take pen in hand again for the next generation – an
intriguing possibility which she distinctly leaves open at the end.
OK, so it’s not very exciting. But there’s a sublime kind of satisfaction to watching this
well-made documentary about one loggerhead turtle, who remains nameless, but for ease
of storytelling, let’s give it a shot: Deborah.
You have to enter with low expectations. This is an Adam Sandler comedy,
and Kevin James is in his overweight, slightly bewildered and occasionally
overwhelmed Everyman persona. He plays Griffin, who works at the zoo,
and is one of those “gentle with animals” guys who talks to them when he
feeds them and brings them little gifts just to do something nice for them.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (PNS) Concerned that the Obama administration and Congress are working on a budget deal that will place an undue burden on the poor “while shielding the wealthiest from any additional sacrifice,” leaders representing the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths on July 14 launched a new campaign to encourage policymakers to maintain a robust U.S. commitment to domestic and international poverty programs.
LOUISVILLE – The Rev. Brian Heron is embarking on a pilgrimage. And
though his congregation will stay home while he’s out on the 10-week
cycling trip, they’ll make a journey of their own.
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) More than 75 Presbyterians in town for the
denomination’s Big Tent event demonstrated their support of immigrants at
the Indiana Statehouse July 2.
The moderator’s July column
LOUISVILLE (OGA) When I welcomed everyone to the Big Tent in Indianapolis recently, I said that the Big Tent is like a General Assembly in that the halls are teeming with Presbyterians, either connecting for the first time or reconnecting with one another.
As editor of a magazine that speaks to the whole church, I feel compelled to write to Presbyterian friends in particular groupings of conviction — while allowing the rest to eavesdrop. In the last two editions, I addressed those celebrating and those grieving the adoption of Amendment 10-A. In this final correspondence, I write to those caught somewhere in the middle.
I think people are leaving. I know that there are people in my church who are considering it. What bothers them the most is the departure from viewing Scripture as authoritative and instead viewing Scripture as merely guidelines. We might as well replace Scripture with the Pirates’ Code. Remember the movie, “Pirates of the Caribbean”?
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