Green paradise
The tiny green patch we had been hiking toward finally began to look less like a miniature diorama and more like a life-sized forest.
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God moved into the neighborhood
Christmas has come and gone. Nativity scenes rest safely in the attic. But has anything remained? For we know at Christmas, The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.1 Perhaps it’s like this:
The profound amid the profane
The most recent half of my faith-walk has been as a Presbyterian, while the previous quarter saw me as a lapsed Catholic (mostly of the Byzantine stripe: Catholics of the Eastern Rite with a liturgy more akin to that used by the Orthodox than the Church of Rome).
No big deal
During the coffee hour between services at Saint Mark Church I often find myself, like many others, wanting to have less structure and be free to just continue talking together with old friends and welcoming new ones. And that is how Coffee Two, an unofficial extension of coffee hour, came to be.
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Called to Be Human: Letters to My Children on Living a Christian Life
Living Christianity: A Pastoral Theology for Today
Living Christianity: A Pastoral Theology for Today
Obama, Clinton at prayer breakfast denounce Ugandan anti-gay proposal
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the occasion of the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 4 to denounce a draconian proposed anti-homosexuality law in Uganda --
ACSWP readies papers for General Assembly
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy feverishly worked last weekend on a half-dozen reports it is preparing for the upcoming 219th General Assembly later this year in Minneapolis.
Parsons issues statement on Supreme Court’s election finance decision: “Unlimited spending by corporations “challenges democratic ethos”
LOUISVILLE — Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), issued a statement today (Feb. 3) decrying the Jan. 21 U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift virtually all restrictions on corporate contributions to election campaigns.
For Haiti, a modest proposal
NEW YORK (NCCC News) — A headline ricocheted around the Internet this week, requiring no further comments. It read simply: 
Baptist group arrested in Haiti denies trafficking charge
MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) — A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, according to the pastor of one of the churches.
Middle East study group approves recommendations amid ambiguities
LOUISVILLE – A General Assembly Middle East study group has approved recommendations that include asking that the two years from 2010 to 2012 be “a time of Presbyterian prayer and action for the Middle East.”
Update: Marriage Committee report available
The final report of the General Assembly Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage, which was voted on..
Committee recommends steps toward traditional marriage and same-gender ceremonies
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Special Committee on Civil Union and Christian Marriage has approved its final report — ending its journey with civility and mutual respect, but also with the clear possibility of a minority report.
Red Brigades planned to kidnap Pope John Paul II, says book
(ENI) — A new book about Pope John Paul II reveals that shortly before the 1981 assassination attempt on the pontiff's life, he learned that the militant Red Brigades group planned to kidnap him.
Church criticizes ‘cut off their hands’ solution to ongoing attacks
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
Church criticizes ‘cut off their hands’ solution to ongoing attacks
(ENI) — An Indian church leader has criticized the chief minister of India's southern Karnataka state for saying that those responsible for a continuing series of attacks on churches should have their hands cut off.
Emergent church is focus of APCE conversation
NASHVILLE — This conversation, part of the 2010 Association of Presbyterian Church Educators meeting here, was attended by pastors and church educators wondering just what the “emergent” church is all about. Or is it the “emerging” church?
PDA’s Ackley records video message to Presbyterians
Disaster relief head gives thanks for donations, outlines next Haiti steps
European Court reprimands Romania over Catholic minority
WARSAW (ENI) — In a ruling that could affect similar disputes, a European court has ordered the government of Romania to compensate a Greek Catholic parish for failing to return to the parish properties seized from it under communist rule.
European Court reprimands Romania over Catholic minority
WARSAW (ENI) — In a ruling that could affect similar disputes, a European court has ordered the government of Romania to compensate a Greek Catholic parish for failing to return to the parish properties seized from it under communist rule.
Lithuania steps into European crucifix debate
(ENI) — Lithuania has come out in support of Italy in its efforts to revise a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that obliges state schools throughout Italy to remove crucifixes from classrooms.
Online archive opens the Reformers’ works at U.S. seminary
(ENI/RNS) — Some surprises started unfolding when a team of Calvin Theological Seminary professors and graduate students in Grand Rapids, Mich., recently launched the Post-Reformation Digital Library.
New evangelical group calls for cancellation of Haiti’s debt
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new organization of progressive evangelicals has formed, calling for complete cancellation of Haiti's foreign debt in order to aid an already-fragile economy devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake.
WCC head to tell Davos meeting Haiti debt should be cancelled
GENEVA (ENI) — World Council of Church General Secretary Olav Fykse Tveit is to tell the World Economic Forum at its upcoming meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that Haiti's foreign debt must be immediately and unconditionally cancelled.