NEW YORK (ENI) In a spirit of repentance, the United Methodist Church is making good on a pledge to support a learning center at the site of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre of Native Americans, which was led by a Methodist minister.
WASHINGTON (ENI) Evangelist David Wilkerson, who wrote the popular book "The Cross and the Switchblade," founded New York's Times Square Church and an international ministry to gang members and drug addicts, died in a traffic accident on Wednesday, April 27, according to The Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) In the five and one-half years since it first organized, Grace Presbyterian Church in Dawsonville, Ga., has been through some big changes.
Grace and peace to all of you. I was baptized as an infant at First Presbyterian Church, Billings, Montana. I was taught faith, Scripture, the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and confirmed at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sulphur, Louisiana.
Almost immediately after the White Paper of the Presbyterian Fellowship appeared, intense reaction followed. Two phrases seemed to attract the most concern. The mention of bringing together a group of theologically “like-minded” people created a powerful reaction in a denomination that has learned to prize its theological pluralism. In another column we can ponder that idea. The other incendiary phrase was “deathly ill,” which was used to describe the prognosis of the PCUSA. Who said “deathly ill” and upon what basis? That prognosis came from me. Let me tell you why.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (PNS) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons joined a number of U.S. religious leaders April 19 for the second annual Holy Week prayer breakfast at the White House hosted by President Barack Obama.
His office on North Fifth Street is three stories above the sanctuary (always filled on Sundays), and life in Richmond (where he mostly grew up) is familiarly complex for the leader of Second Presbyterian Church. …
UPDATED APRIL 19, 2011 – The Presbytery of deChristo voted on Saturday to a 62-62 tie – which counts as a collective “no” vote – becoming the third presbytery to turn away from supporting elimination of the fidelity-chastity ordination requirement (in 2009 it voted 59-48 to overturn the policy).
TOKYO (ENI) A "cross of comfort" has been erected at a church site about one month after its building was washed away by the tsunami that followed the magnitude-9 earthquake on March 11, a Christian relief organization reported.
WASHINGTON (ENI) The State Department has a "rigidly narrow" view of diplomacy that neglects religion's role in foreign affairs, a prominent Catholic ambassador charged on April 17 as he announced his resignation.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) The Rev. Michael Jinkins was inaugurated and installed April 15 as the ninth president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (LPTS).
On Easter morning, Christians in this country and around the world proclaim “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!” We declare this joyfully, accompanied by brass choirs and resounding organs. We call up all the extra choir members and bell ringers, dancers and drummers, to celebrate the great mystery of faith: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
A federal judge has delayed proceedings in a lawsuit over tax breaks on pastors’ housing allowances until the U.S. Supreme Court rules in another case that targets tax benefits for religious institutions.
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY (PNS) Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), unsuccessfully urged Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to drop his effort to balance the state budget in part by sharply limiting state workers’ collective bargaining rights.
A minister’s televised call to Christ inspired the last steps of Ron Lee’s long journey from the pop music industry in his native Hawaii to the pastorate of a small Presbyterian church in North Carolina.
(PNS) Anne Hallum, an elder at First Presbyterian Church in DeLand, Fla., and a political science professor at Stetson University, has been named one of Cable News Network’s “CNN Heroes.”
(PNS) The Rev. Peter Gomes, the longtime minister of Harvard University’s Memorial Church who was hailed as one of the nation’s top preachers, died Feb. 28 at age 68 from complications of a stroke he suffered in December.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Presbyterian News Service) The Rev. Gregory A. Love, associate professor of systematic theology at San Francisco Theological Seminary, has been named winner of the 2011 Angell Award by the Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG).
“In A Better World” (“Haevnen”) is a Danish film about two families that intersect dramatically through their children, a situation that a lot of people can relate to. It’s also about peace-loving people trying to deal with the violence all around them, which almost everyone can identify with.
