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GENEVA (ENI) — The sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV are being ignored, the World Young Women’s Christian Association warns in a statement marking World AIDS Day.
What can we expect for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the next decade?
Friends, Presbyterians, people of God – I come to bury Frozen Chosen, not praise him.
“How good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity.” Psalm 133:1
How tragic it would be if the denomination-wide revival of enthusiasm around being the missional church were relegated to being all talk, no action!
Can you believe we are now consulting calendars for 2010?
I’m fourteen and, playing my first game on the girls’ basketball team in high school, caught the ball and dribbled down court to the basket. Made the basket. Expected cheers, received dead silence. I looked back to the other side of the court and saw all the girls standing there watching me. The lady coach sauntered down: “We play by woman’s rules, here.” On Brooklyn streets I played by “boy’s rules.”
If we have any hope of being a light upon a hill in this new decade, Christians in our country must insure that we will never again countenance the torture of war criminals.
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, ‘My servant Moses is dead.
Like many church leaders, I have been grappling with the steady decline of mainline Protestant churches over the past 45 years and trying to determine what we can do about it.
(ENI/RNS)--Mary Daly, a self-described post-Christian, radical feminist theologian known for pioneering women's studies and battling administrators at Boston College, has died aged 81.
BANGALORE (ENI) — A commission aimed at safeguarding the rights of religious minorities in India cannot be effective unless it is given judicial powers, says the politician who is helping to lead the watchdog body.
(ENI) — Britain's Christian Legal Centre says it has hired a human rights lawyer to represent Olive Jones, a 54-year old math teacher who is being investigated by the North Somerset Council after she offered to say prayers in front of a 14-year-old student suffering from leukemia.
NAIROBI (ENI) — Vulnerable communities have been left own their own to adapt to climate change or perish, with only God to count on, because of the failure of a United Nations conference in Copenhagen to agree legally-binding commitments, a Kenyan theologian and ecologist has warned.
(ENI) — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe in a message to an ecumenical meeting that was greeted by global and regional leaders.
(ENI)--Cardinal Cahal Daly, who led the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland during the sectarian violence that wracked the island, and who has died aged 92, has been praised as a champion for peace and justice.
(RNS) When Pope Benedict XVI visited Africa last March, he made countless pleas on behalf of the poor and the war-weary. Yet..
What a decade it’s been! Just as December 7 became a defining date for the 20th century, so, too, September 11 stands as the defining date for the new century, at least so far.
A Presbyterian minister from New Jersey has sent a letter to her congregation and an announcement to her presbytery, telling them that she was married in October in a same-gender wedding in Massachusetts, where such marriages are legal.
The first candidate to stand for moderator of the 2010 General Assembly has stepped forward, as National Capital Presbytery voted unanimously on Nov. 17 to endorse Cynthia Bolbach, an elder from Arlington, Va.
More than 100 people from around the country and the world gathered Nov. 2-4 in San Clemente, Calif., for the New Church Development Team Training Conference to consider and act upon the theme, “Can I Get a Witness?”
“We absolutely need to think of church planting as the act of the whole church,” Tod Bolsinger, pastor of San Clemente Church, in San Clemente, Calif., told the New Church Development Team Training Conference, which met November 2-4 in his church.
LOUISVILLE — There are a lot of good, solid church-going folks for whom the social media words Twitter and Facebook are not exactly dancing words.
What events and trends of the past ten years stand out above the rest? The Outlook surveyed online readers for their input, resulting in this list:
PUP was a DUD. Just don’t tell anybody. And, don’t tell any fellow Presbyterians that many other highly anticipated – and dreaded – events in the past decade turned out to be duds, too.
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