LOUISVILLE – For a month this fall, 45 Presbyterian mission co-workers, who live in and work in countries from Sri Lanka to Haiti, will travel the United States, speaking in churches and at seminaries, eating pot-luck dinners, sleeping in the guest rooms of Presbyterians in town after town.
(ENI) — Violence in southern Sudan is rife, with many women, children, and the elderly among the victims, the new head of the Sudan Council of Churches, Ramadan Chan Liol, has warned.
LOUISVILLE — The 2010 budget for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be balanced without more staff cuts, a relief for the denomination’s national staff, which has endured several rounds of layoffs.
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian News Service is a “high priority and essential function” of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and “offers the most reliable means the church has to get its story out,” a task force studying the news service has reported.
LOUISVILLE – The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) should add the Belhar Confession, written by Christians in South Africa on the themes of reconciliation and repentance, to The Book of Confessions.
LOUISVILLE — What role should advocacy and advisory committees play in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? And what can be done to improve the sometimes touchy relationship between the General Assembly Mission Council and these committees, which advocate the interests of women and racial ethnic people and for social witness in the life of the Presbyterian church?
LOUISVILLE – The Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) “remains poorly understood and supported by much of the church, and a source of controversy within it,” a study group considering the future of the office has reported.
APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VA. ‹ The murdered body of Mark Niederbrock, 50, pastor of Walker¹s Presbyterian Church in Hixburg, Va., was found on Friday, Sept. 17, along with three other bodies.
BEIT JALLA (ENI) — Indicating a loaf of sweet braided bread on the table, the Muslim man, asked a group of Jews sharing the meal with him: "Why do you eat only this type of bread at the Sabbath meal?"
GENEVA (ENI) — Nepal has been praised for its boldness by an alliance of non-governmental organizations backed by church groups fighting against caste discrimination in South Asia, which hope its stand will spur similar action from neighbors like India.
Lewis S. Mudge, a scholar and theologian whose breadth of interests and expertise enriched virtually every corner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the global ecumenical movement, died in his sleep Sept. 11 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He would have turned 80 on Oct. 22.
LOUISVILLE – A "Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage" has begun approving sections of its draft report – including a section stating that “civil unions cannot adequately substitute for marriage,” either for those who support same-gender marriage or for those who oppose it.
A task force considering the future of the Presbyterian News Service is recommending that the news service continue as “a high priority and essential function” of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
When I was on study leave last March, I spent much of my study time in the lobby of the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Ky. Sitting at a desk in an alcove of this elegant lobby, I spent hours each day reading, reflecting, and writing.
Recently, an 86-year-old man, overwhelmed by caring for his Alzheimer’s- stricken wife, took his gun, shot her to death then went to the attic of their home, lay down in the crawlspace, and killed himself. This man and his wife were members of our church.
CALIFORNIAFirst, Exeter, thanks God for the Rev. Tom Elson’s outstanding leadership, service, and quiet manner in leading us into a deeper relationship..
GENEVA (ENI) — Three women who serve as presidents of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have expressed "considerable concern and great disappointment" about the lack of women in senior staff leadership positions in the world's biggest church grouping.
