I started to write a book review, but it was hijacked and pointed toward the direction of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth.
Tokyo, 26 November (ENI)--The second-ranked official in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan stoked the ire of church leaders in the country when he commented that Christianity is "exclusive and self-righteous" and that Western society is "stuck in a dead end".
Manila, 25 November (ENI)--The massacre of more than 50 people in election-related violence in southern Philippines has shocked Christian and Muslim leaders, who have called for the government to disarm private armies.
I had come to visit Mother after Christmas was over.
Editor’s Note: Given that many Presbyterians in the pews love to sing Christmas carols throughout Advent, but many worship leaders want to keep with Advent themes for worship, we have commissioned Carolyn Gillette to write Advent-themed hymn texts for Christmas carol tunes for each of the Sundays of this year’s Advent.
Editor’s Note: Given that many Presbyterians in the pews love to sing Christmas carols throughout Advent, but many worship leaders want to keep with Advent themes for worship, we have commissioned Carolyn Gillette to write Advent-themed hymn texts for Christmas carol tunes for each of the Sundays of this year’s Advent.
After seeing this example of Carolyn Winfrey Gillette’s new Advent hymn texts set to familiar Christmas carols (there are four, one for..
It seems we have unofficially added a new season to our liturgical calendars.
CINCINNATI – The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) faces “massive change in every way that we do mission.”
CINCINNATI – How to talk about the breadth of the overseas mission work of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? Bit by bit, layer by layer.
When South Vietnam fell to the communists in April 1975, desperate people grabbed for helicopters and scrambled to leave the country any way they could, Cuong H. Nguyen decided to stay, and prepare for persecution.
We know all too well that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been losing members for decades.
Have a favorite love song?
UCC Pastor Lillian Daniel wrote recently that it seems at every installation service she attends there is a charge given about clergy self-care.
MONROE CITY, Mo. — He came into the Hardee’s burger joint here, an unlit cigarette dangling from his lips. A few steps inside the front door, he removed it, stuffing it back into a cigarette pack. Waste not, want not.
Washington, D.C. (ENI/RNS) — In late September, Lutheran dissidents said they would hunker down for a year and study whether to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and create a new church body.
Union Theological Seminary-PSCE (soon to be Union Presbyterian Seminary) in Richmond, Va., launched recently a new Web site offering online resources for using children’s and adolescent literature in educational ministry — Children’s Literature: A Resource for Ministry.
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. — The award season leading up to next summer's 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) officially opened here Nov. 17 when the Committee on Theological Education named former Auburn Theological Seminary President Barbara Wheeler as winner of this year's Excellence in Theological Education Award.
The first candidate to stand for moderator of the 2010 General Assembly has stepped forward, as National Capital Presbytery voted unanimously on Nov. 17 to endorse Cynthia Bolbach, an elder from Arlington, Va
(ENI) — The German embassy in Harare has sent a strongly-worded letter of protest to the Zimbabwe government after some of its soldiers beat up a Jesuit priest who has lived in the country for most of his life and was rushing a boy to hospital.
A Presbyterian minister from New Jersey has sent a letter to her congregation and an announcement to her presbytery, telling them that she was married in October in a same-gender wedding in Massachusetts, where such marriages are legal.
DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) -- The Georgia Baptist Convention has ended its 148-year-old relationship with First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., over the congregation's 2007 vote to hire a woman as senior pastor.
This is a story about how one thing leads to the next, especially when smart, motivated women get involved. And about how a little money and time given by ordinary people can add up to more than they ever imagined.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
(RNS) Repentant for having spent a generation bowing at the altars of church growth and political power, concerned evangelicals gathered Oct. 13-15 to search the soul of their movement and find a new way forward.
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