{ OUTLOOK FORUM } The Mid Councils Commission report and recommendations for “flattening” the hierarchy of the PC(USA) argue that young, emerging..
I would like to publicly apologize. I know it is not very fashionable but I must do it. After all, wisdom sometimes..
Mark Twain commented that “You never see Presbyterians ranting, shouting and tearing up the ground. You never heard of a Presbyterian going..
Listen in on Presbyterian conversations, and there’s a thread running through many of them having to do with something new. New worshipping..
Camp and conference centers in the PC(USA) continue to play a vital and expanding role in the denomination. They provide and support Christian education, disciple-making, young adult leadership, congregational support, retreats of all varieties, evangelism and outreach.
W ith dollars being hard to come by and congregations and presbyteries feeling the pinch, many Presbyterian camps and conference centers are in a season of re-evaluation. Some have closed, and some are reconfiguring to diversify and firm up their financial base.
Don’t jump to conclusions. The Fellowship of Presbyterians has launched a new denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (ECO), signaling yet another structural divide in the mainline Presbyterian Church family (see pp. 12-16). But it remains to be seen whether this will produce a split or just a splinter. That depends on us. All of us.
Maryland is thinking about letting gays and lesbians get married.
A century ago, the geographic center of Christianity was in Europe and North America.
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