AUSTIN, TEXAS - Prescott Harrison Williams, 84, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Languages and Archaeology at Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary, died on June 18.
JERUSALEM — (ENI) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has told Christian leaders in Jerusalem he sees "new hope" for the peace process in the Middle East.
LOUISVILLE – (PNS) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is participating in a faith-inspired mobilization for health care reform in an Interfaith Week of Prayer for Health Care for All, June 19-26.
LOUISVILLE - The Mission Development Resources Committee of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has awarded Mission Program Grants totaling $820,000 to 19 congregations and church-related projects across the United States.
ATLANTA - "I take seriously the fact that elders are commissioned to teach the Bible," said Elder Freda Gardner, commenting on the Bible study she led recently at the National Elders Conference, part of the first-ever Big Tent event.
LOUISVILLE — Membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) fell by 69,381 in 2008, the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) has announced in its annual statistical report, continuing a trend that began in the mid-1960s.
ATLANTA — A unique “human” history of a Louisville, Ky., congregation earned its co-authors the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Angell Award for best first book by a Presbyterian author in 2008.
CHICAGO — Richard “Dick” Clay, a Louisville attorney and former Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation board member, has been named interim president and CEO of the church’s entity charged with attracting and managing investments, gifts, bequests and endowments to benefit Presbyterian mission around the world.
(ENI) — A South African church suspended in 1982 from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches because of its support for apartheid is “still not ready for readmission,” a meeting of the grouping’s executive committee in Geneva has been told.
(RNS) — Publishing powerhouse Christianity Today International, citing hard times in its industry, is shutting down four publications and laying off 31 workers.
LOUISVILLE — The Rev. Ralph D. Winter, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister who pioneered frontier evangelism and was named one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals by Time magazine in 2005, died May 20 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. after battling multiple myeloma and lymphoma. He was 84.
A set of principles developed by persons from the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church was sent recently to the presbyteries in hopes that some of the barriers that have divided us may be removed, or at least, modified in the spirit of Christian cooperation.
Religion in America used to be a landslide for Protestants. No more. Recent surveys show that we Protestants are no more than 50 percent of the population.
ATLANTA — What do young people want from the Presbyterian church? And — for the young and energetic, the skeptical and the faithful and the passionate — what do Presbyterian churches have to offer?
(ENI) —The appointment of a Roman Catholic nun as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary illustrates the truth of the saying "to be Reformed is to be ecumenical", says the general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
(NCC) Faith leaders have applauded Congress for its action approving landmark legislation authorizing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products.
