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LOUISVILLE – Not surprisingly, the 10,000 pound gorilla in the room as Presbyterian policy-setting groups met here in late March has been the staggering economy, sort of like the unwelcome guest at the dinner table.
A church court has ruled that San Francisco presbytery made a mistake in allowing Lisa Larges, a lesbian who has been trying for years to be ordained as a minister, to declare a conscientious objection to the ordination standards of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) before she had been examined as a candidate for ministry.
When the economy heads downward, pastors sometimes expect the pews to get a little more crowded.
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial in 2009 is shining a bright light on nearly every aspect of the life of the rough hewn man recently voted by a poll of historians as our most important president.
by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Princeton University Press, 2008. Hb., 393 pages. $39.50.
by M. Eugene Boring. The New Testament Library. WJKP, 2006. Hb., 470 pp. $49.95.
edited by Marcia J. Bunge, Terence E. Fretheim, and Beverly Roberts Gaventa. Eerdmans, 2008. Pb., 467 pages. $30.
DO This in Remembrance of Me: A Ritual Approach to Reformed Eucharistic Theology, by Martha L. Moore-Keish. Eerdmans, 2008. Pb., 184pp. $20.
God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship, by Kenton L. Sparks. Baker Academic, 2008. 415 pp. $26.99.
Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. Beacon Press, 2008. Pb., 552 pp., $34.95.
Judson Press
Crazy Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Nearly 15 years ago, an associate pastor at my church preached a fabulous sermon from an obscure passage in I Samuel 10.
As congregations recruit leaders, they need to include at least a few entrepreneurs, who understand that health requires risk.
Donald V. Weatherman, who left Lyon College in Batesville, Ark., 10 years ago as a professor of political philosophy, will return in July as the 17th president of the college. He will succeed Walter B. Roettger, who is retiring in June after 11 years as the college's president.
(ENI)--Germany's top Protestant cleric, Wolfgang Huber, has highlighted German's role as a major global arms exporter, and he has castigated the fact that at his country has become the top armaments exporting nation of Europe.
(ENI)--Religion has always played a part in South African elections say voters, but this year the voice of churches and their leaders at times has been shrill during campaigning for the April 22 general election. Some voters say the pulpit has been used to great effect, other says it is being misused.
(ENI)--Russian Orthodox Christians must resist the temptation to live exclusively within their own subculture and need to reach out to other groups, especially youth, Moscow Patriarch Kirill I, has said.
(ENI) — Philippine traditional Protestant, evangelical, and Pentecostal churches have agreed with their South Korean counterparts to cooperate "in establishing God's kingdom" in Asia rather than competing to the point of "stealing sheep from one another.”
(ENI) — Analysts of religious life in the United States are asking if the nature of the country's religious identity is fundamentally changing.
(ENI) — Minority church leaders in Muslim-majority Turkey have welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's defense of religious rights during a visit to the country.
Amid the blur that is his first 100 days, one declaration of President Barack Obama ought to be troubling to all Christians.
(RNS) Over the last decade, mainline Protestant clergy have inched leftward, with more identifying as Democrats, supporting gay rights, and calling on the government to solve social problems, according to a recently released survey.
Imagine having your home blasted by a wall of water – leaving behind muck, filth, damage, destruction.
David Green, the pastor of First Church in Galveston, Texas, never dreamed of living at the beach.
Just a day after the closing ceremony for one volunteer village in Louisiana, another across the state was dedicated.
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