DUE WEST, S.C. — The legal maneuverings over governance of Erskine College and Seminary continue as attorneys responded to the recent appeal by the General Synod of Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of a preliminary injunction ordered last month by a circuit court judge.
LOUISVILLE — A Philadelphia pastor, James A. Belle, is the fifth candidate for moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
LOUISVILLE - No way around it: this will be a painful week for the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
LOUISVILLE — In the five and a half years since its creation, the Colombia Accompaniment Program has been ever-evolving, adapting as organizers..
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Harpeth Presbyterian Church was crawling with members May 3, cleaning up after the nearby Harpeth River overflowed its banks Saturday and Sunday, flooding this historic church in Brentwood, Tenn.
Worship with a North Korean house church
PYONGYANG — Shoes are removed before entering the modest fourth-floor apartment in an otherwise drab high-rise in this North Korean capital city. The bare-wood living room floor is lined with simple straw mats.
Master seamstress sews together details of 219th General Assembly
MINNEAPOLIS – "The opening service July 4 at the Minneapolis Convention Center will be 8,000 worshippers strong," said the Rev. Paula Sanders, and will demonstrate "the best of being Presbyterian — a liturgically correct service that is creative and inclusive."
NASHVILLE — After the historic flooding here last weekend, clean-up has begun.
A fourth candidate – Eric Nielsen, a pastor from Wisconsin – has been endorsed to stand for moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The Presbytery of Northern Waters, meeting May 6, unanimously endorsed Nielsen, who is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Eau Claire, Wis., a congregation of about 250 members.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI/RNS) — The U.S. government is not doing enough to protect religious freedoms abroad, the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has said in its annual report to Congress and the White House.
FIVE TUESDAYS IN JUNE:
PRE-GA BRIEFINGS/WEBINARS
Top experts on the “hot” topics address your questions.
JUNE 1
Israel - Palestine
Ron Shive (Pro) & John Wimberly (Con)
JUNE 8
New Form of Government
Dan Williams (Pro) & Gale Watkins (Con)
JUNE 15
Ordination Standards (Fidelity/Chastity)
Tricia Dykers-Koenig (change)
& Jerry Andrews (retain)
A memorial service will be held on May 2 in Santa Fe, N.M., for Donald S. Marsh, 86, who, with his companion and collaborator of 50 years Richard Avery, provided the soundtrack to a generation of Presbyterian camp- and conference-goers. He died at Casa Real Health Center in Santa Fe on April 10.
LOUISVILLE — Rebecca Barnes-Davies, a student at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and consultant for environmental and social justice ministries for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has been named winner of the Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG) 2010 Angell Award for the best first book by a Presbyterian author.
DUE WEST, S.C. — The Executive Committee of the Erskine College and Seminary Board of Trustees is sending a message of “resolution and reconciliation” to the general synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Andrew J. Young, former U.S. congressman, Ambassador to the United Nations, Atlanta mayor, and top aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke March 22 at Montreat (N.C.) Conference Center on the topic, “Faith and Civil Rights.”
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on March 8 to decide whether the father of a fallen soldier can sue protesters picketing at his son’s funeral with signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
WASHINGTON (RNS) On the heels of their March 21 rally on the National Mall, immigration reform advocates, including religious leaders, met at the White House to plot strategy.
NEW YORK (ENI) A geneticist and molecular biologist, who has argued that science and religion should be kept separate, has won the Templeton Prize – an award associated with honoring those who advocate dialogue between the two disciplines.
KATHMANDU (ENI) Girija Prasad Koirala, a former prime minister of Nepal and the architect of a secular republic in what was once the world’s only Hindu State, died after a protracted illness in Kathmandu on March 20.
Ovt 048 » Presbytery of Upper Ohio Valley: Amend G-5.0101 Regarding Covenantal Membership.
Ovt 049 » Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy: Expand the Scope of the Review of Biennial Assemblies.
What will the next generation’s leaders of church and country look like? If the presidents have anything to do with it, they will look a lot like this year’s graduating class of PC(USA)-related colleges and seminaries.
JHH: What was the impetus that generated this report?
Presbyterian seminaries
Austin, May 30, 2:30 p.m.
Columbia, May 15, 10 a.m.
Dubuque, May 8, 9:30 a.m.
Not surprisingly, responses have begun to roll in to the report of the General Assembly Study Committee on the Middle East – with some critics contending that the report is biased and predicting it will ignite anew tensions between Presbyterians and Jews.
In July, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will receive two documents of great relevance to Christians and Jews and to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. They are already drawing fire from both Jewish and Palestinian groups.
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