Using language far more theological than his predecessors, new Board of Pensions President Frank Spencer urged the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s pension and..
HSIN-CHU AND TAIPEI, TAIWAN (PNS) Due to a series of personnel changes and organizational adjustment, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) had not been..
ALQOSH, Iraq (RNS) Basima al-Safar retouches a picture of Jesus on an easel outside her house overlooking the flat Nineveh plains, 30 miles..
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Eckerd College are partnering to offer the Doctor of Ministry Parish Focus degree in St. Petersburg, Fla. It..
(RNS) Seven years after officiating at the wedding of his gay son, the Rev. Frank Schaefer has been reinstated as a clergyman..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Presbyterian Investment & Loan Program (PILP) board of directors has named James G. “Jim” Rissler as its next President & Chief..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) One of the main goals the Reverend Christopher Ferguson has as the new general secretary of the World Communion of Reformed..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Veteran Office of the General Assembly (OGA) staffer Loyda Puig Aja has announced her resignation as director of Ecclesial Ministry..
(RNS) Husband-and-wife Pentecostal ministers who own a wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, refused to marry same-sex couples after a recent court..
(RNS) Religious groups are battling the state of California over whether employee health insurance plans require them to pay for abortions and some..
(RNS) If you’re dismayed that one in five Americans (20 percent) are “nones” — people who claim no particular religious identity —..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis said Thursday (Oct. 23) that keeping inmates isolated in maximum security prisons is “a form of torture,”..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Presbyterian minister and medical doctor James “Jim” McAuley has been sent by his employer from Zambia to Sierra Leone. Trained as an..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Our thoughts and prayers are with the family whose baby was killed and those whose loved ones were injured when a..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The funding arm of the Presbyterian Mission Agencythat helps establish New Worshiping Communities is revising its “1001” grant program to better serve the movement...
SAN ANSELMO (PNS) Benjamin A. Reist, who inspired and challenged generations of students —including this reporter — for five decades as professor of..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a grant of just under $8 million ($7,993,517) to Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to continue the work of the Louisville..
LOS ANGELES (PNS) The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) has approved grants totaling $133,270 to 10 self-help projects in the United..
(RNS) Once the first person in America died from Ebola, the usual bigots and ideologues blamed it on President Obama, whom they loathe...
(RNS) Pope Francis and senior Catholic leaders wrapped up their two-week Vatican summit on the challenges of modern family life on Sunday..
NEW YORK (RNS) Leaders of a Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed during the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center broke..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Kirk in the Hills. Kirk of Kildaire. What’s in a name? Plenty, it would seem, for Presbyterians. “Although the names..
Three Presbyterians arrested as part of civil disobedience this week in Ferguson, Missouri, say they stepped forward because of systemic racial injustice..
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA (PNS) The Rev. David Dobler remembers when – early in his ministry in Alaska – presbytery meetings were fraught with..
SAN ANSELMO, CALIF. (PNS) If we want to save the world, humans must engage in 21 billion hours per week of gaming,..
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