MONTREAT — “It’s time to step into being the church that we’ve been called into,” Moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow told a gathering of younger Presbyterian pastors June 8 at the opening worship service of the 2009 alt 7 Conference.[caption id="attachment_20615" align="alignright" width="338"]
Moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow shares a laugh with conference organizer Shawn Coons. [/caption]
LOUISVILLE — Stewardship. "It's an odd word that garners mixed reactions from people," admits Jon Brown, director of mission interpretation for the General Assembly Council's Communications and Funds Development office and organizer of the Stewardship and Investment Conference that's part of the first-ever Big Tent event, June 11-13 in Atlanta.
LUSAKA — (ENI) Church leaders in Zambia have joined a media watchdog in expressing concern about "deteriorating freedom of expression" in the country stemming from harassment of journalists belonging to The Post newspaper by supporters of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy party.
GENEVA — (ENI) It is important to remember that "many people in Israel belong to the peace movement", a group that should not be forgotten, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said this week.
LONDON — (ENI) Christian leaders in Britain have deplored gains made by the extreme right-wing British National Party in elections to the European Union parliament.
LOUISVILLE — The Office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has announced a staff reduction. Three staff members accepted voluntary separation packages, another three positions were eliminated, and two new positions were created, to be filled in 2010.
“There is a new wind blowing through the sometimes musty halls of American Christian churches, and it is sweeping away the hypocrisy, lack of social concern, and unnecessary cultural baggage accumulated by the mainstream churches through the years.
People sometimes speak of the General Assembly as the Presbyterian family reunion, as if everyone there grew up in the same general neck of the woods – or at least knows most of the branches of the clan.
This is their goal: to bring a worldwide end to nuclear weapons.
During its second broadcast, the new “God Complex” radio show, a brand-new, bicoastal Internet radio venture featuring General Assembly moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow and blogger Carol Howard Merritt, took on the question of whether small churches can continue to afford an educated clergy.
To report or to promote? That is the question the Presbyterian News Service is currently facing.
“Son, I need to talk to you.” When Dad said these seldom-welcome words to his boomer son, I knew what was coming: either correction I did not want, or advice I did not think I needed.
(ABP) — Over the last 10 years I have written two books and countless articles in which I suggested and hoped that the culture war between cultural conservatives and cultural liberals would — and should — end.
by Philip L. Wickeri. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 2007. Pb., 516 pp. $50. Published in cooperation with the American Society of Missiology.
My two favorite restaurants in New York City are Cafe con Leche, a plain Caribbean place at 96th and Amsterdam and, 10 blocks farther down Amsterdam, a tiny hamburger joint called Harriet’s Kitchen, which does mostly delivery business.
NAIROBI — (ENI) Christian and Muslims leaders in Kenya have praised U.S. President Barack Obama's address to the Muslim world as motivating and conciliatory, though some Islamic scholars have urged him to back his words with action.
(ENI/RNS)--President Barack Obama urged Islamic nations to recognize the importance of religious freedom and democratic values in his Cairo speech on June 4, but he failed to take a hard line on repressive laws, according to the chairwoman of a religious freedom watchdog panel, Religion News Service reports.
San Anselmo, Calif. – Dr. Elizabeth Liebert will become the first Roman Catholic sister named as dean of a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminary this summer when she takes over the position at San Francisco Theological Seminary.
In years past, national news magazines have published holy week cover articles announcing the death of Jesus and the death of God. This year, God and Jesus survived, but Christian America died.
“Give to the presbytery!” probably does not top the “To-Do” list for many Presbyterians.
(ENI) A group of economists and church representatives from the Caribbean says the economic crisis has provoked increased levels of crime and violence in the region and has led to the destruction of social safety nets.
(ENI-RNS) — Two prominent Hispanic Christian organizations are divided on whether Latinos should participate in the 2010 U.S. census, while U.S. Catholic bishops say it’s in everyone’s “best interest to be counted.”
Acts, by Richard I. Pervo. Hermeneia. Fortress, 2009. Hb., 838 pp. $85.
Easily gathered metrics like Sunday attendance are useful but deceptive.
Somewhere in Antarctica, two polar bear cubs take their first look at the chilling, snowy world.
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