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GA: For moderator, it’s Bolbach in four
MINNEAPOLIS – After four rounds of voting and some worry about technical difficulties with the electronic voting keypads, the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) elected as its moderator Cynthia Bolbach, a lawyer and the only elder in a six-person field.
GA 2010: Film in review: “The Last Airbender”
I saw this movie in the company of an eight-year-old boy, whose one-sentence review was, “Best movie ever!” Since he’s the perfect target audience, the following remarks should be taken in that context:
Film in review: “Killers”
Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl are two of the most innocently handsome people in Hollywood.
Commanded and uncontrolled
So it’s time to cast votes for or against the proposed new Form of Government (see p. 16). Yea or nay?
Austell Web site for GA info
Robert Austell, pastor of Good Shepherd Church in Charlotte, N.C., has set up a Web site called GA HELP — that he’s calling an “unofficial, one-stop help site” for the assembly.
Schori lashes out at Anglican uniformity push
(ENS) Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the U.S. Episcopal Church has forcefully defended her church’s embrace of gays and lesbians, and firmly rejected efforts to centralize power or police uniformity in the Anglican Communion.
Episcopalians booted from Anglican bodies over gay bishops
(RNS) The Episcopal Church has been removed from Anglican committees that engage in dialogue with other Christians and consider doctrinal issues, the latest fallout from the church’s recent consecration of a lesbian bishop.
Deborah Mullen new seminary v.p., dean
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Deborah F. Mullen has been named dean of the faculty/executive vice president at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., effective Oct. 1.
Dubuque withdraws from Alaska proposal
The University of Dubuque has announced it will “step away from the table” on plans to enter a partnership agreement with Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, according to Dubuque President Jeffrey F. Bullock.
Church leaders alarmed at violence in Iraq
GENEVA (ENI) The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has joined peers in the Middle East in expressing concerns about the escalating rate of violence against Christians in northern Iraq, following attacks on buses carrying Christians in Mosul, in which a shopkeeper was killed.
“It’s raining overtures in Minneapolis”
Tom Hay, director of operations for the Office of the General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) knows better than to try to predict the mood of a General Assembly ahead of time.
Same-sex partnering issue center stage at GA
A study committee studied and offered its insights without offering any policy changes.
Campus ministry that counts
What do today's college students think about their own generation?
Governance, mission: New FoG debates
The work of the New Form of Government Task Force has been turned in.
Jinkins named new president of LPTS
LOUISVILLE — The Board of Trustees of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has called Michael Jinkins as its ninth President. He will succeed Dean K. Thompson, who has served as president since 2004. Jinkins will begin his duties on September 1.
Surviving summer “scatter”
If ever there was a time for the “multi” in Multichannel Church, it is now, as summer arrives and people scatter physically and emotionally.
Looking for a few good men
Back in May I spent a weekend with more than 400 Presbyterian men at Mo-Ranch Assembly in the Texas hill country north of San Antonio.
Here again this year
So now the General Assembly convenes. Commissioners and delegates trudge miles between conference center, meeting rooms, exhibit hall, hotels, and they vote several hundred times.
Films in review: “Toy Story 3,” “Jonah Hex,” and “Coco and Igor”
“Toy Story 3” is just a delight. It’s clever, well-thought-out, and supplies just the right combination of story line, humor, and slight twist at the end.
Film in review: “Eclipse”
It’s easy to see why Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” series is so rampantly successful. She creates a tension in all her characters that makes them all show internal dynamism, and external movement. They’re all headed somewhere, so the character development is always in a state of flux, which drives the plot forward. It’s all about the triangles.
Justices say Christian club not exempt from non-discrimination policy
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A closely divided Supreme Court, in a June 28 ruling that resolved few major constitutional questions, said the University of California’s law school could refuse to offer the benefits of official registration to a Christian student group because the club discriminates on the basis of religion and sexual orientation.
South African elected president of WCRC
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Rev. Jerry Pillay of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, was elected the first president of the fledgling World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) June 24.
Sudan church head calls for urgent resolution of Darfur conflict
(ENI)- — The head of the Sudan Council of Churches has called for the urgent resolution of the conflict in Darfur after two German aid workers became the latest victims of abduction in the region.
The GA party scene
Six candidates. Five ministers and one elder are standing for election to become Moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).