BALTIMORE – What is the future in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) of presbyteries and synods?
The old-timers, they are a-changin’. At least they’re dismantling stereotypes of the golden years. Good for them. Good for all of us.
Why can’t American Christians be more like Koreans? Why can’t they honor and learn from their older adult family members the way the Koreans do?
When you consider moving to a Multichannel Church operation — going beyond Sunday morning to add off-site, online, and other weekday ministries — you can expect at least six objections.
Greetings from University of the Ozarks in sunny, downtown Clarksville, Ark.
A friend and I were having lunch at a fabled restaurant in New York's Grand Central Terminal, when the eatery’s famous owner came out of the kitchen, trailed by two acolytes, and took an adjacent table.
Editor's note: This is a response to the post-General Assembly Outlook article, " Assembly approves removal of fidelity, chastity; presbyteries to vote..
Why in the world would you set aside a whole month to appreciate your pastor? How many of us — other than athletes and actors — hear “well done” on the way out of work each week … from a whole group of people … and after only an hour’s work?
Social media like Facebook and Twitter are changing our world, including how faith communities function. Opportunities abound to use them as a ministry communications tool.
Editor's note: Bruce Gillette, co-pastor of Limestone Church in Wilmington, Del., wrote the following reflection upon hearing about the recent death of Frances Paschal Landers and on the Christian imperative to see and serve the world's most needful.
The Park51 Islamic center (inaccurately called the Ground Zero mosque) controversy has constructed the ultimate caricature of caricatures.
Once, on a reporting assignment, I flew into Bismarck, North Dakota, just before winter’s brutal assault.
So Anne Rice — vampire novelist turned recommitted, Jesus-loving Christian — has quit the church, and the blogosphere has gone viral. What’s the big deal? Everybody’s doing it.
They need no exodus who dwell in the Promised Land.
Recently I attended the sixth grade Renaissance Fair at Springfield Middle School. It was quite the event with hundreds of eleven- and twelve-year-olds dressed in varying degrees of homemade costumes displaying varying degrees of mortification.
Members and officers, my word to you is this: be entrepreneurs.
The city of Minneapolis could not have been more welcoming to the two or three thousand Presbyterians who gathered for the 219th General Assembly. But her quiet twin brother, St. Paul, also threw open his arms of welcome.
MINNEAPOLIS —The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has directed a special committee to engage in a retranslation of the Heidelberg Catechism. And it voted to ask the presbyteries to add the Belhar Confession from South Africa to the PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions.
IT WILL GO DOWN IN MY MEMORY as one of the top ten all-time meaningful events in my ministry.
But, would I want to live there? Thousands of Jewish settlers from the United States and Europe do. So do the Palestinians who have been there for four millennia or more.
If congregations want to turn around public skepticism, mission work ought to be their first priority.
So it’s time to cast votes for or against the proposed new Form of Government (see p. 16). Yea or nay?
If ever there was a time for the “multi” in Multichannel Church, it is now, as summer arrives and people scatter physically and emotionally.
Six candidates. Five ministers and one elder are standing for election to become Moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
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