Where do we go from here?
The dust has settled on another effort to remove G-6.0106b from the Church’s constitution.
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Where do we go from here?
Well, it’s all over but for the sighing. Some walked away thinking they were winners, and some hung their heads feeling like losers.
Baltimore Presbytery covenants to live, work together
For the past six years the Presbytery of Baltimore has been exploring a simple question, “How do we want to live together so that we can focus on and advance the ministry to which God is calling us?” Many far beyond the boundaries of our presbytery are exploring this question.
Gracious separation?
Surrounded as we are by oxymoronic phrases, a prize should go to those who coined “gracious separation.” Some discerned that it meant, “You be gracious, so that we can separate.” Others noted an irony in the phrase implying that those separating were not gracious.
“Don’t mess it up” … Eight daring ways forward
“Dad, tell your colleagues not to mess up the church too much before my generation has a chance to lead.” So exhorted my 19-year-old daughter(YAD at GA in San Jose) as I headed out last week to a synod general/executive presbyter forum. I told her I would try …
Why we need FOG revision: Part 3
Editor’s Note: This is the author’s third essay addressing why the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) needs a major revision of the current/1983 PC(USA) Form of Government.
Social witness committee members focusing on human trafficking
The issue of human trafficking worldwide is of growing concern and Presbyterians are taking action to address it.
Heidelberg Catechism committee deliberating on overture
Fifteen appointed members and two national staff members met last March in Louisville to begin consideration of the overture that originated from the Presbytery of Newark on “correcting translation problems of the Heidelberg Catechism.”
Psalm 151 – A new psalm for the tweeters and texters
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It’s time we listened to the atheists
One of the great privileges of my life is the ongoing conversation I enjoy with tens of thousands of readers via my columns in The Tampa Tribune.
Summertime to-do list
Sometime this summer, four things need to happen:
Faith, reason, and the economy
A few years ago Michael Dodd, an attorney and friend, invited me to speak at a seminar he leads in the International..
Film in review: “The Proposal”
We all know the formula to a romantic comedy before we ever enter the theater: boy meets girl, they have a rocky relationship with many bumps along the way, but eventually find love.
Prescott Williams dies; memorial service June 25
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Prescott Harrison Williams, 84, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Languages and Archaeology at Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary, died on June 18.
Ex-US President Carter sees new hope for Middle East process
JERUSALEM — (ENI) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has told Christian leaders in Jerusalem he sees "new hope" for the peace process in the Middle East.
PC(USA) participating in Interfaith Week of Prayer for Health Care; Service of Prayer and Witness June 24 in Washington, D.C.
LOUISVILLE – (PNS) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is participating in a faith-inspired mobilization for health care reform in an Interfaith Week of Prayer for Health Care for All, June 19-26.
2009 Mission Program Grant recipients announced
LOUISVILLE - The Mission Development Resources Committee of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has awarded Mission Program Grants totaling $820,000 to 19 congregations and church-related projects across the United States.
Elders’ task is to help others get into the Bible, Gardner says
ATLANTA - "I take seriously the fact that elders are commissioned to teach the Bible," said Elder Freda Gardner, commenting on the Bible study she led recently at the National Elders Conference, part of the first-ever Big Tent event.
Civil union-Christian marriage task force anticipates final report being more ‘descriptive’ than ‘prescriptive’
LOUISVILLE - Ten-thousand is the word limit for reports to a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly.
OGA statistics announced: PC(USA) records steepest membership loss since reunion in 1983
LOUISVILLE — Membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) fell by 69,381 in 2008, the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) has announced in its annual statistical report, continuing a trend that began in the mid-1960s.
Story of Louisville congregation wins Presbyterian first-book award
ATLANTA — A unique “human” history of a Louisville, Ky., congregation earned its co-authors the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Angell Award for best first book by a Presbyterian author in 2008.
Clay named interim CEO of Presbyterian Foundation
CHICAGO — Richard “Dick” Clay, a Louisville attorney and former Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation board member, has been named interim president and CEO of the church’s entity charged with attracting and managing investments, gifts, bequests and endowments to benefit Presbyterian mission around the world.
Editor’s hope
The news sounds frightening. Since the first of the year, Christianity Today Incorporated has shuttered six of its magazines and sold a seventh.
Seattle downtown church born after two churches disband
Two congregations in Seattle.
Religion news needed now more than ever, says Niebuhr
(ENI) — The 21st century world cannot be understood without understanding religion, says U.S. religion journalist and professor, Gustav Niebuhr.