LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) After 18 months under an interim president, San Francisco Theological Seminary has named the Rev. James L. McDonald as its 11th president.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Interfaith Broadcasting Commission (IBC) ― whose partners include the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ― has announced the four television specials that will comprise NBC-Television’s “Horizons of the Spirit” series this year.
WASHINGTON (PNS) Last month’s Ecumenical Advocacy Days brought many Christians to Washington to learn about and advocate for gender justice and women’s issues.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) “Watermarked,” an album renowned Presbyterian singer/songwriter david m. bailey was working on when he died last fall, has been released posthumously.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) Acting on a recommendation from the 217th General Assembly (2006), two Presbyterian groups have partnered to help their older adult ministries stay connected.
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.
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.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) The Rev. Michael Jinkins was inaugurated and installed April 15 as the ninth president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (LPTS).
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.
(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).
When one considers the current political climate, whether within the United States or around the world, “forgiveness” might not be the first word that comes to mind. But forgiveness, said the Rev. Donald Shriver Jr., an ethicist and former president of Union Theological Seminary, is exactly what’s needed.
Group will help PC(USA) determine next steps in its peacemaking witness
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — The Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry area (CPJ) and the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) have announced the selection of the Peace Discernment Steering Team.
GENEVA (ENI) During its meeting here, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee passed judgment on the ecumenical movement’s progress on gender justice: too little.
LOUISVILLE — A group of eight students and two advisors from the University of Arizona Presbyterian Campus Ministry (PCM) ― along with 13 Peruvian partners and youth and PC(USA) mission worker Jed Koball ― were attacked in La Oroya, Peru March 16 as they painted a mural near the troubled Doe Run Company smelter there.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) In February, the General Assembly’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) committee concluded engagement efforts with Time Warner that the church called successful.
LOUISVILLE, KY. (PNS) After years of downsizings and organizational changes, the office of Collegiate Ministries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is back — and a newly assembled task force is working to discern the state and future of collegiate ministry within the church.
LOUISVILLE – The Rev. Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has written a letter to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, urging him to call off a plan to balance the state budget in part by de-unionizing state workers.
SAN DIEGO – Since he began serving as executive presbyter of the Presbytery of San Diego in 2007, the Rev. Clark Cowden said the presbytery has focused on being a missional church.
GENEVA (ENInews) – With one U.S. delegate dissenting, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee on 21 February criticized the U.S. for its Feb. 18 veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning continued settlement construction by Israel in the Palestinian Territories.
Representatives of Christian Churches Together (CCT) — a fellowship of 36 denominations and six national organizations representing a large spectrum of Christians — has issued the first known formal clergy response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
