Them. It so easily becomes a four-letter word. Them. Republicans to Democrats. Democrats to Republicans. Conservatives to liberals. Liberals to conservatives. Them. Muslims. Jews. Christians. Palestinians. Israelis. Afghans. Pakistanis. Iraqis. Americans. Them. When “them” is a rivalry, well, that’s one thing. You know the kind of “them” I am talking about.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
Random House. 2010. 473 pages.
reviewed by Roy W. Howard
My father was a Japanese POW for 42 months, having been captured when he was 19 years old in the Philippine Islands while serving with the Army Air Corps.
Turning Controversy into Church Ministry: A Christlike Response to Homosexuality
by William P. Campbell
Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 2010. 240 pp.
reviewed by Andrew Nagal
Perhaps the greatest contribution of Bill Campbell’s new book is not what he says, but how he says it.
The word for competition in the Greek New Testament is the word athleo, from which we have the English words athlete and athletic.
LOUISVILLE - Top leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) released a letter Feb. 4 calling for a denomination-wide conversation. That marks the PC(USA)’s response to a letter and “white paper” released Feb. 2 by 45 pastors, most serving large congregations, that has provoked conversation around the church and which raises the possibility of some sort of denominational schism.
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A group of 45 mostly large church pastors have published a letter to the whole Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) declaring the denomination to..
A group of 45 mostly large church pastors have published a letter to the whole Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) declaring the denomination to be “deathly ill” and declaring that the church needs to be “radically transformed.” At an early January gathering in Scottsdale, Ariz., the leaders articulated issues that they had been discussing informally over the past year. They spelled out their assessments in a white paper titled, “Time for Something New,” which was published on Feb. 2 along with the letter to the denomination.
O LORD our God, this Table is as big as your heart …
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Editor’s note: On Aug. 5, a mine near Copiapó, Chile, collapsed, trapping 33 miners 2,300 feet underground.
This film is “based on true events,” but, of course, many are skeptical of exorcism stories, even many sincere Christians.
Re-makes are always a bit risky, but maybe if you wait long enough and the first one was obscure enough, few people will remember it, anyway.
Go on, men, admit it! There’s a part of you that would prefer to be free from practically all entanglements.
My grandkids have headed down our snow-covered driveway just in time for me to pull together this Christmastide editorial you will read in late January about summertime with children.
WASHINGTON (rNS) — When President Barack Obama lit the National Christmas Tree behind the White House in 2009, he spoke of a “child born far from home” and said “while this story may be a Christian one, its lesson is universal.”
SAN ANSELMO — Carol Weir, former missionary in Lebanon died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Oakland after several months of declining health. She was 86 years old.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Benedict XVI has called the limits on religious freedom a “threat to security and peace,” and said Christians are persecuted more than any other faith group.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs has given its Chaver Tzedek Award to William H. Harter, a Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania.
HUNT, TEXAS — A decision by the Mo-Ranch Conference Center in Texas to allow an Islamic group to hold a retreat last month for Muslim teenagers drew a storm of criticism from some local Christians.
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The Southern Poverty Law Center is adding the Family Research Council and four other conservative religious organizations to its list of hate groups because of “falsehoods” in their anti-gay statements.
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ReNew and the Parable of the Sower (age specific material)
Printed on recycled paper and soy-based ink, this green VBS program brings together the Bible and environmental stewardship. Besides being a flexible program that encourages hope, opportunity, and service, ReNew is based on one story: Jesus’ Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:1-9). Children explore the parable in-depth, rather than trying to learn multiple non-consecutive stories over a short period.
One of the reasons we are Presbyterians is the theological conviction that Christians best discern God’s will as we gather together.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) may want to take note of a phenomenon occurring online.
Human identity does not reside so much in what we do but in what we are.
A recent personal experience affirms my observation that congregations won't thrive unless they have a consistent and extensive calling ministry, led by clergy who value calling more than attending meetings and doing judicatory business.
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