Who would have thought that a three-and-a-half year old would be eligible to play organized tee ball?
It’s been 27 years since I first joined a Presbyterian congregation.
How many people left the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 2008 was a recent news release headline. What jumped off the page at me was not the numbers, but the questions Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons thinks are important to ask in response to the membership loss.
(ABP) Maybe the Cambridge police did not act “stupidly,” but did they act typically?
Thirty-five years ago Presbyterians played a major role in the birth of a new ecumenical initiative against hunger: Bread for the World, which now is the nation’s main citizens’ lobby on hunger.
I have a theory, an observation, really, about what’s coming around the corner. Or rather, who is coming; I’ve been watching my people.
I am a belated arrival to J.K. Rowling’s vast world of fantasy. Still about a thousand or so pages from resolving the hair-raising saga between Voldemort — I mean “You-Know-Who” — and Hogwarts’ best student wizard, Harry Potter, I have gleaned insights from this story pertinent to better preparing seminary students for the pastorate.
My congregation recently elected me to the committee that will nominate a new pastor.
LOUISVILLE — A lightning strike Aug. 20 set ablaze First Church of DeBary, Fla., destroying the 50-year-old building.
“Most of us in this room find ourselves living in a world that none of us planned for,” conference speaker Alan Roxburgh told those gathered for the “Moving Back into our Neighborhoods: The Work of the Missional Church” consultation in San Diego, Calif.
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-If we don't know how to listen to one another's stories, how will we be able to listen to the stories of those in our neighborhhods- conference participants were challenged [/caption]Most conferences for church leaders include some form of practical take-away for those attending. The Presbyterian Global Fellowship’s fourth regional consultation of the year, “Moving Back Into Our Neighborhoods,” never set out to be ‘most conferences.’
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“Alan Roxburgh engages with attendees of PGF’s “Moving Back into our Neighborhoods: The Work of the Missional Church” in San Diego.”[/caption]
EDINBURGH — The (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland has said it fully supports a decision taken by the Scottish Government on Aug. 20 to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, on compassionate grounds.
(ENI)--The armed conflict in Angola ended seven years ago, but the consequences of four decades of war are felt still today. And women seem to be bearing most of the brunt.
Even as their churches are riven by internal debates over homosexuality, the two nation's two largest mainline Protestant denominations agreed Aug. 20 to share ministers and resources in a "full communion" accord.
The new Form of Government Task Force has approved final drafts of the report it will submit to the 2010 General Assembly, with only minor editing changes left to be made.
CAPE TOWN (ENI) — The largest Christian grouping in South Africa says it is concerned that it was not invited to be part of an interfaith group formed to help President Jacob Zuma deal with national protests against a lack of essential services.
(ENI) — Carnage aimed at a tiny Christian minority in the remote Kandhamal area of India's Orissa state raises questions about the claim of the world's second most populous country to be a secular state.
NAIROBI (ENI) — Praise has poured in for Kimani Maruge, the world's oldest pupil, who gave a new meaning to education, and inspired Kenyans and many others after he began primary school at the age of 84 and learned how to read the Bible.
They gathered under the banner of Presbyterians for Restoring Creation (PRC) and the Eco Justice Network, but they left carrying the banner, Presbyterians for Earth Care.
As the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar continues to work through the consequences of a government takeover in March 2009, its citizens, including many Christian believers, are trying to carry on through difficult circumstances.
ATLANTA — “The office of elder is not just some job in the church. It is a distinct call and the key to the renewal of the Presbyterian Church.”
Years ago, I was invited to participate in a small group of leaders in town.
As the officers gathered around the baptismal font to be ordained and installed they felt varying degrees of nervousness.
The room became quiet. A newly-elected group of elders and deacons had gathered with me to talk about the training process ahead.
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