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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (RNS) A Catholic bishop in Indiana recently gave his imprimatur to a thoroughly modern take on the ancient act of confession with a thumbs up to “Confession: A Roman Catholic App,” a new application for the iPhone and iPad that helps users catalog their sins before entering a confessional booth.
WASHINGTON (RNS) The architect of the Obama administration’s new consumer protection bureau met with faith-based groups in early February in a bid to shape the agency’s work as a moral crusade.
JUBA, SOUTHERN SUDAN (ENI) Church leaders in Southern Sudan have called for urgent strategies to end threats caused by northern Uganda's rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The leaders said attacks are escalating, threatening a fragile peace in a region that will celebrate independence July 9.
NEW YORK (ENI) A coalition of U.S. church bodies is calling on the Obama administration not to block a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution seeking an end to construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
PHOENIX (RNS) Houses of worship and other charities often aren’t in competition for dollars but instead tend to reap donations from similar donors, a new study shows.
NEW YORK (RNS) The proposed Park51 Islamic community center and mosque project near Ground Zero is again looking for a top imam after Sheik Abdallah Adhami resigned the post less than one month into the job.
ALBUQUERQUE In his younger years, Rick Ufford-Chase had a rocky relationship with the Apostle Paul. He found him racist, sexist and homophobic. “Mostly, I gave up,” preferring not to argue with those who saw Paul differently, Ufford-Chase said recently.
(ENI) The New Year’s Day massacre at a Coptic church in Egypt. Christian converts facing the death penalty in Afghanistan. Swastikas painted on a Jewish synagogue in Venezuela.
Presbyteries are well into the process of deliberating and voting on whether to ratify the vote of the 2010 General Assembly to add the Belhar Confession to PC(USA)’s The Book of Confessions. Should this document, written to confront the policy of apartheid in South Africa, be made a permanent expression of the faith for American Presbyterians?
The Presbyterian Outlook Foundation inaugurated in 2009 the Outlook Publishing Fellowship as a means of supporting the ongoing work of the foundation’s publishing and Internet ministries. The Foundation greatly appreciates the vision and generosity of those who became charter members of the Outlook Publishing Fellowship, including:
Over the last several months in these Outlook pages, people have been rethinking church. They’ve talked about the need to prevent clergy burnout and have offered various theological definitions of church.
When loved ones die, family and friends try to comfort those hurt the most by death. Frequently the response the survivor gets is a halting, “So sorry for your loss.”
The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader
by Mark Pierson
Sparkhouse Press, November 2010. 240 pages.
reviewed by DEBRA AVERY
Don’t read this book if you are looking for the next big thing in worship that guarantees growth in attendance, or if you are looking for liturgies and songs to plug into your standard order of worship.
Unsqueezed: Springing Free
from Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, Highlights, and Stilettos
by Margot Starbuck
InterVarsity Press. 2010. 229 pages
reviewed by Leslie Klingensmith
Pull up a comfy chair, brew a pot of tea and sit down with your most candid and hilarious girlfriend to kibbitz about the ways that we women buy into the cultural stereotypes of beauty.
“Over the centuries, the issue of responsibility for Jesus' death has served as a basis for the blanket persecution of Jews -- a notion the pope repudiates.
Presbyterian Outlook: Not many movies include high school wrestling. Was this based on any personal experience?
“Mars Needs Moms” is one of those kid-friendly animated films that adults will purchase for their children and grandchildren to watch, but will find something else to do themselves. There’s nothing really objectionable—the story line is creative, and the screenplay is functional enough—but it just isn’t magical.
“Limitless” is the kind of adult film that gets audiences rooting for a guy who takes drugs. Only this isn’t just your run-of-the-mill narcotic; this is the magic pill that will make you super-alert, super-smart, and well, maybe more than a little hyper.
We seem to never tire of movies about 19th century England. We re-make “Jane Eyre” every decade or so, perhaps because of its purity of romantic longing: no real fulfillment, and no sex, please, we’re British.
Ah, a meaty role for Matthew McConaughey. And he knows what to do with it. He plays Mick Haller, a defense attorney who operates from the back of his Lincoln Town Car, with uniformed chauffeur.
As a big sports fan, I have been watching how the NCAA is working to maintain unity in the ever changing landscape of Division I athletics. It has made me wonder if the PCUSA should discuss something similar. Consider the following changes that will be made this coming fall in college sports:
Tokyo, 18 March (ENInews)--Churches are among those who keep searching for missing people, including clergy, members and their families, as the death toll after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami has reached the highest in the history of natural disasters in postwar Japan.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) In February, the General Assembly’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) committee concluded engagement efforts with Time Warner that the church called successful.
Where is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) headed?
I wish I knew.
The moderator’s March column
General Assembly Mission Council
Where is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) headed?
I wish I knew.
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