“In A Better World” (“Haevnen”) is a Danish film about two families that intersect dramatically through their children, a situation that a lot of people can relate to. It’s also about peace-loving people trying to deal with the violence all around them, which almost everyone can identify with.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky judge has dismissed a California man’s lawsuit against the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), saying the man had waited too long to file a court claim that he suffered sexual abuse at a Presbyterian-run boarding school in Africa.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, the General Assembly Mission Council of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will hold its September 2012 meeting in Seoul, South Korea.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The General Assembly Commission on Middle Governing Bodies is inviting all Presbyterians – and that means everyone – to give it feedback on ways to creatively structure the work of presbyteries and synods.
The Synod of the Pacific Permanent Judicial Commission has upheld a lower church court’s ruling that Janie Spahr, a minister from California, violated the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) when she performed same-gender weddings in 2008.
The Presbyterian World Mission ministry area has been in contact with partner organizations and churches and with all its mission workers in Japan. since the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
LOUISVILLE – The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is in a “hinge time” of questions, anxiety and excitement, said Cynthia Bolbach, moderator of the 219th General Assembly.
In his book Becoming a Blessed Church, Graham Standish points out that while the Presbyterian deliberative process produces measurable results, it has failed the church precisely at the point where church members need their leaders to be spiritually attuned to God’s will in their decision making. Nowhere is this moretrue than in Presbytery, where good Presbyterians compromise our unity and spiritual purpose for the sake of a major vote.