by David Gibson (RNS) Bye-bye, “Bishop Bling.” So long, “Pastor Perks.” The so-called “Francis effect” may be real, at least when it..
MINNEAPOLIS – The congregants sat during evening worship in the balcony, looking down over a river of blue fabric draped over the..
by Josephine McKenna ROME (RNS) Pope Francis stressed the importance of marriage between a man and a woman at his general audience..
MINNEAPOLIS – “No community of faith can be silent while people suffer.” J. Herbert Nelson II, who leads the Office of Public..
by Eva Stimson LOUISVILLE (PNS) Moderators and vice moderators have been selected to lead the fourteen committees that will handle the business..
MINNEAPOLIS – “We stand in the rubble of the mainline church” – that’s how Jim Kitchens, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister and..
by David Yonke DEARBORN, Mich. (RNS) For the first time in its long history, Thrivent Financial is not just for Lutherans. The..
by Toya Richards Jackson, OGA LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Rev. Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), joined..
by Timothy Cargal (PNS) In my previous post I addressed a number of changes that the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates..
Stephanie Fritts, Chair of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) Advisory Committee, is Director of the Pacific County Emergency Management Agency. Following is..
by Bethany Daily LOUISVILLE (PNS) What could have been a simple night at the movies turned into a ministry that has affected..
By Bob Smietana (RNS) Going to church these days can be a bit like eating at a fast food joint. It might..
by Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) The Rev. Sue Pinnington is on a five-week mission to compile a job description for a..
by Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Christian leaders are appealing to President Uhuru Kenyatta not to sign into law a proposed new..
By Eric J. Lyman VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis met with President Obama for the first time on Thursday (March 27) in..
by James R. Bullock Jr. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA (PNS) On March 22 at Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a remembrance of the 1964..
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) After announcing earlier this week that it would no longer define marriage as between a man and..
MONTREAT, N.C. (PNS) The Rev. Pete Peery, president of the Montreat Conference Center, has announced his plans to retire at the end of..
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey NEW YORK (RNS) The American Bible Society will sell its 12-story building on Broadway, vacating prime real estate..
by Lauren Markoe WASHINGTON (RNS) When two corporations — one owned by evangelicals and one owned by Mennonites — filed suit over..
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) Christian relief organization World Vision has announced that it will no longer define marriage as between a man..
by Jim Nedelka NEW YORK (PNS) A key Roman Catholic tenet holds that the Pope is the head of their church on Earth,..
By Jerry L. Van Marter LOUISVILLE (PNS) On March 15 ― three months after it was created by a merger of the..
By Tim Cargal In May of 2013, the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates (PCC) announced its plan to move to..
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) As mainline Protestant denominations continue decades of decline, one of the main institutions helping educate its leaders..
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