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“Would you like to come upstairs and play in my room?” asked my 3-year old niece, for whom I was babysitting.
“Sure,” I said, and up we went. Within minutes we were on the floor together, playing with toys.
Of all the stars who have ever hung upon the eastern sky,
There is one remembered above all the rest … no others even try.
Gus, we read your book and would like to try what it says in our church in Atlantic..” The personnel committee had read “Service is the Point” and wanted to try it out.
In thinking about our declining Presbyterian Church membership, one possible way to stem the tide is to establish new union churches with other denominations.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We write in response to your letter addressed to the entire PC(USA) family about the current stress and division in our denomination.
A few weeks ago, Barbara Wheeler and John Wilkinson wrote a very well-reasoned appeal to conservatives to stay in the PC(USA) if..
Webinar - “Faithful Presence: Preaching the Word”
When I was in high school Advanced Biology class, I remember that I was skeptical of evolution, but I never had any..
This time 30 years ago my friends and I were preparing for final exams and descending into melancholy as we listened to Dan Fogelberg sing, “Same Old Lang Syne” on my roommate’s car radio.
We speak a shared language, Presbyterian-related colleges and their sister churches — a language of scholarship, faith, vocation, arts, community and service.
Colleges
Austin College, Sherman, Texas, May 15, 8:30 a.m., on campus. Drayton McLane, chairman of McLane Group and longtime chair and CEO of the Houston Astros Baseball Club, is keynote speaker.
Last Christmas, I had to cancel a spring break mission trip. It was a dilemma I hadn’t faced before. Many eager students simply couldn’t go.
I’ll never forget the presbytery meeting where we examined an incoming minister. Along with other subjects, he subject of the Atonement was..
Official membership figures that the Presbyterian Church (USA) keeps show 11,260 congregations in 1998 with 2.59 million members.
If the words of Jesus trump all other voices, then when the words of Jesus don’t fit our preferred picture of him,..
Webinar- Jana Childers - Preaching to Rattle Tea Cups and Wake the Dead
I remember how strange it sounded to me when I heard some overseas missionaries tell that one of the lessons they taught..
I have a confession to make. I am not an optimist. “The power of positive thinking” made popular years ago by Norman..
I wonder why there are people who believe that Barack Obama is a) Muslim, b) a terrorist, and c) not an American..
What is your picture of hell? On an album in the 1970s, Alice Cooper pictured it as a never-ending disco. For me,..
Presbyteries are well into the process of deliberating and voting on whether to ratify the vote of the 2010 General Assembly to add the Belhar Confession to PC(USA)’s The Book of Confessions. Should this document, written to confront the policy of apartheid in South Africa, be made a permanent expression of the faith for American Presbyterians?
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