Thomas W. Gillespie, retired president of Princeton Theological Seminary and for decades a key figure in Presbyterian theological education, died Nov. 5 of complications from surgery at the University Medical Center in Princeton. He was 83.
Samuel Shamba Warlick, who was accused of sexually abusing the children of Presbyterian missionaries in Africa in the 1980s, has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
The Fellowship of Presbyterians has released two new draft documents – one on theology including the presentation of proposed essential tenets for a new Reformed body and another on polity.
WHAT HAPPENED at the Covenanting
Conference of the Fellowship of Presbyterians meeting in Orlando?
Your fellow church members will be wondering.
The national newspapers may or may not provide sketchy reports.
WASHINGTON, Iowa (Special to Presbyterian News Service) Effective elders are humble elders, the Revs. Mark Martin and Gary Burnett told elders attending Elder 102 training, sponsored by the Presbytery of East Iowa, at United Presbyterian Church in October.
The Fellowship of Presbyterians has revised the options it will present as possible courses of action for congregations to consider at the Fellowship’s next meeting, in Orlando Jan. 18-20.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (RNS/ENInews)
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has asked Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to intervene to stop attacks on Anglicans by allies of an excommunicated bishop who has seized church property and intimidated clergy and worshippers.
It was Jill Brown’s experience as a church youth worker and volunteer that led her to start paying attention to how teenagers use Facebook, text messaging and other social media tools. Because she wasn’t their parent, teenagers would sometimes talk to her about their online experiences.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – What is the most common type of job at which young adults are working? Retail – including, for many, Sunday morning shifts.
The Fellowship of Presbyterians has named a chief operating officer, Brenda Smith.
MONTREAT, N.C. (Conference Center news staff) Lynn Tuggle Gilliland has been named Montreat Conference Center’s new vice president for development. Gilliland will begin February 13, and until April 30 she will work jointly on development with the current development officer, Bill Straughan, who is preparing to retire.
LOUISVILLE – Doing ministry in a time of “shifting sands” – when pretty much everything is changing – has become the reality of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A).
The Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Stated Clerk Nomination Committee (SCNC), elected by the 219th General Assembly (2010) in Minneapolis, is accepting applications for the four-year term (2012-2016) of the General Assembly stated clerk, the top ecclesiastical position in the denomination.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has
struggled in recent years to figure out
how to support collegiate ministries.
INDIANAPOLIS
The General Assembly Middle Governing Bodies
Commission has voted not to recommend changing
the constitution of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) to allow non-geographic presbyteries.
MADISON, Wis.
Scott Anderson became the first openly gay man
ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) at an Oct. 8 service in Madison, Wis.
We have just received word that Thomas Gillespie, president of Princeton Theological Seminary from 1983 till 2004, passed away last night. He..
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to feel the international rumblings from its controversial decision earlier this year to allow the ordination of sexually active gays and lesbians.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Ordination exams for would-be teaching elders (ministers) are going digital. Candidates will soon be allowed to take the exams online on a flexible schedule and receiving the results in a few days.
A church in Africa may have become the second Presbyterian denomination outside the United States to end its partnership with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in response to the U.S. church’s decision to allow the ordination of sexually active gays and lesbians.
Another candidate – the fourth announced so far – has been endorsed to stand for moderator of the 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). All four candidates are teaching elders.
Two additional candidates have emerged to stand for moderator of the 2012 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
NEW YORK – Presbyterian Welcome, a Manhattan-based ministry that works to promote tolerance, will present its 2011 Faithful Servant Awards to three people who have worked to dismantle barriers based on sexual identity within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
“It is about time,” said participants in gay man’s service
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