Grand Rapids, Mich.(Special to PNS) The Bible should be read “as if God was actually talking to us,” the Association of Presbyterian Christian Educators (APCE) was told here at its annual gathering this week.
DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission is calling for reviews of the denomination's top-level agencies and its racial ethnic ministry.
The Rev. Janet Edwards, a nationally prominent advocate for same-sex couples in a presbytery that consistently opposes gay ordination and gay marriage,..
DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission has voted 15-5 to permit non-geographic, “provisional presbyteries” as part of a “designated season of reflective experimentation” in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission made a key decision last fall: it would recommend to the 2012 General Assembly that synods would no longer exist in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as councils with ecclesiastical responsibility.
Louisville, Ky. The Special Offerings Advisory Task Force, commissioned by the 218th General Assembly (2008), is recommending a new vision for special offerings – $20 million in receipts by 2020. Seeking to tap the full potential of special offerings, the task force is also recommending one new offering and revisions in each of the other offerings.
Louisville, Ky. (PNS) The Presbyterian Publishing Corporation has released the cover design of “Glory to God,” the new Presbyterian hymnal to be published in the fall of 2013.
As a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, the Rev. Pam Driesell was surprised to hear about a professor who was hard on people who asked questions.
Louisville (PNS) Presbyterians, along with other Christians from across the country, will gather in Washington March 23-26 for the 10th annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days, an event that mobilizes participants around a central issue through worship, education and lobbying.
Feeling out of alignment with the direction being taken by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a large Florida congregation has voted to leave the PC(USA) to join the more conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
Asira Al-Qibliya, West Bank, (ENInews) The homes at the edge of this Palestinian village are located a few hundred meters from houses in the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar. But the relationship is anything but neighborly.
(ENInews) Christian and Muslim leaders worldwide are being urged to act together to address the violence being unleashed in northern Nigeria
that has been blamed on Boko Haram, a self-proclaimed Islamist group.
Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas
January 8, 2012
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Evangelical Tod Bolsinger, chair of the Mid-Councils Commission shared his heart in anticipation of the Fellowship of Presbyterians conference, held recently in Orlando, Fla.
“Like many who will gather in Orlando, I share many concerns about the state of our denomination. But,
(ENInews) Churches in India have decried the verdict of an Islamic court in Kashmir that ordered the expulsion of Christians, including a Protestant pastor and a Dutch Catholic missionary, and recommended government control of Christian schools.
(ENInews) North Korean Christian leader the Rev. Kang Young-sup, 80, who worked for the reunification of North and South Korea, died Jan. 21, according to Chosen Tongshin Sa, a North Korean
news agency.
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Interview with Glenn Close, star of "Albert Nobbs":
Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 8
Ronald Salfen: I just have one question. In order to play a man, did you have to take a stupid pill?
Louisville
Twenty-four leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ― many of whom met in Orlando during a gathering which launched a new Reformed body ― have written a letter urging reconciliation between the denomination and the dissident group.
Yes, there has been some serious discussion of “union presbyteries” in these past months. However, may I respectfully say to Rev. McAtee that “these are not your daddy’s union presbyteries”. They are not envisioned to address the same issues that created the first such presbyteries, nor will they necessarily take the same form.
ORLANDO, Fla. – While the Fellowship of Presbyterians has launched a new denomination, called the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (or ECO for short), some folks still have questions about exactly how things will work.
The Presbyterian Foundation Group (which includes the Presbyterian Foundation, New Covenant Trust Company, NA and New Covenant Funds), which provides financial support to church-related institutions and causes, plans to retain two outside investment firms to help manage its assets and will cut positions on its staff to effectuate the changes.
New York (ENInews) Clare J. Chapman, deputy general secretary
and general counsel of the National Council of Churches (NCC), on 20 January was named interim general secretary by the council's governing board.
(ENInews) Conservative U.S. Presbyterians launched a new denomination on Jan. 19, saying the Presbyterian Church (USA) is too
consumed by internal conflicts and bureaucracy to nurture healthy congregations.
Baguio City, Philippines (ENInews) Amid a governance crisis that threatens to divide the Philippines, several churches say they are marking the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by setting aside doctrinal differences, praying and working for change.
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