STORM LAKE, Iowa (Office of the General Assembly) Life after disasters is full of stories of tragedy and miraculous survival.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Special to PNS) “The extent of the damage is just stunning,” said General Assembly Mission Council Executive Director Linda Valentine after a recent visit to Tuscaloosa and Culllman, Ala., with a group of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders.
WASHINGTON (RNS) Christian missionaries should renounce all “deception and coercive means” of winning converts, according to an agreement released June 28 by a World Evangelical Alliance, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican, which together represent 90 percent of the world’s Christian population.
Landon Whitsitt, vice-moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a pastor from Missouri, has been elected as the new executive and stated clerk of the Synod of Mid-America.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Charlotte’s Presbyterian seminary has broken ground on a campus in the heart of the SouthPark area — a $6.5 million development that will give the school its first permanent home.
C. Benton Kline, Jr., a former president of Columbia Theological Seminary, died June 20 following a brief illness.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Office of the General Assembly) Gradye Parsons,
stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),
says he is "deepy troubled" by the deficit-reduction package that has been
signed into federal law.
STORM LAKE, Iowa (Special to PNS) When Rick MacArthur turned 8
years old, he asked his family to throw a birthday party not for him, but for
his hero, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Buddy Holly.
Geneva (ENI) Christian advocacy groups are among a 28-strong international coalition calling for North Korea, criticized by many for its human rights abuses and nuclear threats, to step down from the presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (UNCD).
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission has dismissed a challenge to the ordination of Scott Anderson, which means that Anderson – a gay man who set aside his ordination in 1990 after congregants publicly revealed his sexual orientation – may once again be ordained by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Jerusalem (ENI) Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders met in Jerusalem July 18 at the Interfaith Climate Change Forum to raise awareness about the vital role religion can play on environmental issues.
Geneva (ENI) Different faiths need to do more to promote human solidarity, said Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), in the aftermath of the bomb attack and mass killings in his native Norway.
STORM LAKE, Iowa (Special to Presbyterian News Service) Anna Carter Florence, who teaches preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary, says she’s very interested in how the people of God talk about God.
Trondheim, Norway (ENI) A Norwegian bishop addressing the recent bombing and shooting attacks in his country said Norway has "countered this insane terrorism by demonstrating love and solidarity."
On the afternoon of Sept. 22, 2001, Carolyn wrote “O God, Our Words Cannot Express,” a hymn that was used by many churches on that evening and in the days that followed. It was published in the Presbyterian Outlook at the time, and was mentioned in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, lots of magazines and was on national PBS-TV twice in the USA and the BBC-TV in the United Kingdom.
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission won’t release rulings until perhaps Aug. 2 in two cases involving whether particular lesbian and gay candidates – Lisa Larges and Scott Anderson – can be ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Warsaw, Poland (ENI) Church leaders across Europe expressed shock
and sorrow at the killing of 76 people by a right-wing extremist in Norway,
and pledged solidarity and prayers with the country's inhabitants.
Bangalore, India (ENI) Major churches in India are taking part
in a hunger strike that began July 25 in New Delhi to demand an end to
discrimination against Christian Dalits.
John Stott, an English evangelical who helped introduce the world to the global scope of the Christian movement and is considered one of the most influential evangelicals of his generation, has died.
Washington (General Assembly Mission Council) The Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, director of the
PC(USA) Office of Public Witness, was among about 12 religious leaders arrested July 28 in the
U.S. Capitol Building while engaging in public prayers for an end to the debate over whether and
how to raise the federal government's debt ceiling.
San Anselmo, Calif.
The Rev. Dr. James L. McDonald, a former executive with a faith-based organization that combats hunger, will take over as the 11th president of San Francisco Theological Seminary at a time when the financially strapped school is closing its Southern California campus.
Heather Wallace, a graduating senior at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., has won the 2011 Presbyterian Outlook Church-College Partnership Award.
In a time when ministry and outreach to college students is in decline, the Presbyterian Student Center Foundation, known as PresHouse, is thriving on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, its tax-exempt status has been revoked, and the ministry could soon be shuttered.
Q: How can a conference reflect open-mindedness, intentionality, innovation and church leadership all at once?
AUSTIN, Texas (pNS)
C. Ellis Nelson, 95, who contributed to Presbyterian theological education over a 60-year career, died June 9 in Austin, Texas.
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