Some students arrive at college focused and sure of what they want to do: a platoon of future pharmacists, engineers, teachers and..
CHICAGO – Think of NEXT Church 2015 like a popcorn machine of ideas: creativity popping up, energy swirling through the air, the bowl..
by Ken Fuquay This year, after seven long years of “crag-climbing,” I will graduate from Union Presbyterian Seminary. Two framed diplomas with..
by Susan Fox and Lynn McClintock To commemorate the bicentennial of Union Presbyterian Seminary in 2012, students, staff, trustees, professors and community leaders..
by Billy Baker Music has been an integral aspect of the worship service for centuries. Whether it involves traditional chant, hymnody or..
by Julie Vidrick Evans Most of my colleagues agree there is great satisfaction in leading a church music program. We lead choirs..
Strip away the perfect lilies massed along, across the chancel steps, the bright reflecting sight and sound of brasses, and the white..
Gun metal gray the sky this morning and along the shore at dead low tide an on-shore wind blows spume across the..
by Robert Chestnut Over the past several decades so many progressive Christian thinkers have raised so many critical problems with traditional theories..
The children who live at Assisi Snehalaya, a ministry of Catholic Franciscan friars in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, are almost..
Sometimes, when everything seems complicated, what’s most needed is one place of hope. In the city of Coimbatore, in the state of..
Technically, India abolished the caste system more than 70 years ago, after achieving independence and drafting a constitution. In reality, change doesn’t..
A visitor to India is first struck by what’s different: the ferocious swirl of honking traffic and color and smell and spice...
BALTIMORE – The words “Fear not!” rang out in worship, plenary sessions, workshops and the marketplace during the annual meeting of the..
Whatever your church situation you will find a vacation Bible school curriculum that will fit your needs. Here are some options for..
Lent is a season of fasting and repentance in preparation for Easter. This season, situated in the grey dregs of winter, reflects..
by Annette Weissenrieder What happens here is not simply a great scholarly enterprise with subscribers on all continents and in dozens of..
by Edwin Chr. Van Driel There’s a remarkable passage in one of the upcoming lectionary readings. “Some Greeks,” John writes, came to..
Many PC(USA) congregations are considered “family-sized.” According to Alice Mann’s work on congregation sizes, a “family” congregation has up to 50 adults..
For some Presbyterians, celebrating Lent is not intuitive — it may not have been part of their family’s pattern growing up. It..
Lent is a time to give up time in reaching for eternity, to set aside the minutes and the hours and make..
While some Protestants still struggle with what to make of Lent (“Isn’t that a Catholic thing?”), increasingly Presbyterian congregations are seeking creative approaches for making..
by Linda Seebantz It was November 1955 when Presbyterians convened to sign the paperwork and assume ownership of a dude ranch..
by Henry G. Brinton For roughly 40 years, Camp Glenkirk was the primary camp and conference center for Presbyterians in the Washington,..
by Betty Angelini “In the PC(USA) we talk a lot about collaboration and partnering. This is just a fantastic example of PC(USA)..
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