by Clay Allard Parish ministry is a daunting calling, not necessarily in the short run (though the first five years of Saturday..
Contemporary Presbyterians don’t think much about the Puritans. The caricatures are negative. Puritans are prudes, legalistic, killjoys. The famous sentiment of H.L...
The last General Assembly was marked by the body’s rejection of two major recommendations from its own committees. The full General Assembly..
General Assembly can feel overwhelming: a week-long blitz of motions, controversy, business, worship, too much complexity hitting too fast to absorb. Recognizing..
In the ten years since the 216th Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly, much has been said about the issue of divestment in..
Israeli mother Frimet Roth has personally felt the pain of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict twice. In 2001 her 15 year-old daughter Malki was..
Divestment will be a hot issue again at the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in June. The question in..
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me." Some Presbyterians..
by John Williams In July 2012, the PC(USA) General Assembly approved a list of “Presbyterian-affiliated” schools, colleges and universities (as it does..
Auburn Seminary has a habit of moving from place to place, that is, about once a century. What began in rural western..
I recently attended an outstanding panel discussion with noted biblical scholars, N. T. Wright and Lewis Donelson at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary...
On the evening of Saturday, June 14, candidates for moderator of the 221st General Assembly in Detroit will be placed in nomination,..
It might have been one of the shortest assignments in the history of the Presbyterian Church. On April 1, the Office of..
The idea that the Son had to die so the Father would be able to forgive us has never made much sense..
MINNEAPOLIS –Imagination and hope. For the roughly 400 people who attended the NEXT Church national gathering in Minneapolis, that’s likely what they..
These weeks between the ashes and the lilies demand hardly any getting used to. The lurking guilt has ever been there, tight..
By Julie Maclemore Wells For many years Presbyterians in the United States have been concerned about the struggles that often define life..
After two rejections, presbytery looked inward — and found a candidate who sensed God’s call. When Ruth Santana-Grace looked across the room..
SAN JOSE, CALIF. – In an era of rapid change in the ways and means of making disciples, one thing has remained constant:..
BLOOMINGTON, IND. – On Fat Tuesday, folks from the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver go to the bars to..
Whatever your church situation, you will find a vacation Bible school curriculum that will fit your need. Below are some of the..
Hurricanes. Typhoons. Droughts. Temperature darting up and down. Concerned about the impact of climate change, Presbyterians are asking the 2014 General..
Hundreds of churches offer short term youth mission trips as a way to express one of the essentials of our faith: reaching..
Mission goes to camp. Camp goes to mission. Each statement sounds neither compelling nor poetic. But over the past 20 years, both..
The short, saucy version is this: on November 20, 2012, an 81-year-old widow named Bette Wilson died in Birmingham, Ala. She had..
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