ORLANDO -- More than 1,150 evangelical Presbyterians, meeting here at the Presbyterian Coalition's biggest gathering ever, made it clear Tuesday that they want to accomplish some kind of "new reformation" of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) --
In separate cases on opposite coasts of the country, presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are examining gay candidates for the ministry, assessing their suitability for ordination.
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The General Assembly Council has affirmed and commended for churchwide use a paper, "Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ," written in answer to a request by the 213th General Assembly.
TEMPE, Ariz. - Members of the General Assembly Council are getting the word that Mary Holmes College, a two-year, historically African American school in Mississippi, is in big trouble and the problem is lack of money.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is testing the waters to see what kind of support there might be for embarking on a proposed $39.5 million fundraising campaign to pay for the denomination's mission work internationally and also new church development and redevelopment in the U.S.
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The Congregational Ministries Division Committee is recommending that the PC(USA) discontinue further development of the third year of the church's Covenant People curriculum.
TEMPE, Ariz. --The uncertainty facing the world in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon was reflected in the opening of the General Assembly Council's Executive Committee meeting here Wednesday morning.
With students less willing to pick up and move across the country in order to attend seminary, and with technology blasting innovation into everyday life, schools of theological education are learning some new digital tricks. And they are struggling with the question of how the human aspects of theological education
Robert McAfee Brown, 81, celebrated Presbyterian writer and educator, died on Sept. 4, in a nursing home near his summer house in Heath, Mass. Brown, whose health had deteriorated in recent years, suffered a broken hip in a fall about a month ago.
MONTREAT, N.C. -- Mary Elva Smith, the new director of the Women's Ministries Program Area of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), said here recently that she'd like to see the denomination push for another global women's conference that she said will restore the validity of feminist theology in the church.
