Last Christmas, I had to cancel a spring break mission trip. It was a dilemma I hadn’t faced before. Many eager students simply couldn’t go.
I’ll never forget the presbytery meeting where we examined an incoming minister. Along with other subjects, he subject of the Atonement was..
Official membership figures that the Presbyterian Church (USA) keeps show 11,260 congregations in 1998 with 2.59 million members.
If the words of Jesus trump all other voices, then when the words of Jesus don’t fit our preferred picture of him,..
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I remember how strange it sounded to me when I heard some overseas missionaries tell that one of the lessons they taught..
I have a confession to make. I am not an optimist. “The power of positive thinking” made popular years ago by Norman..
I wonder why there are people who believe that Barack Obama is a) Muslim, b) a terrorist, and c) not an American..
What is your picture of hell? On an album in the 1970s, Alice Cooper pictured it as a never-ending disco. For me,..
Presbyteries are well into the process of deliberating and voting on whether to ratify the vote of the 2010 General Assembly to add the Belhar Confession to PC(USA)’s The Book of Confessions. Should this document, written to confront the policy of apartheid in South Africa, be made a permanent expression of the faith for American Presbyterians?
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Over the last several months in these Outlook pages, people have been rethinking church. They’ve talked about the need to prevent clergy burnout and have offered various theological definitions of church.
When loved ones die, family and friends try to comfort those hurt the most by death. Frequently the response the survivor gets is a halting, “So sorry for your loss.”
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There are any number of passionately debated controversies animating the church these days — sexuality, Christology, the Middle East — but none may raise the heat in local congregations as much as the venerable debate about exactly when the congregation starts to sing its beloved carols.
Three to five inches,
that’s what they’re saying,
overnight into the morning hours.
And tail-lights glow as streets and parking lots,
“… where war is a staple of life …” with one eye and a nod to Isaiah 2:1-5
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn (Luke 2:6-7, NRSV.
LOUISVILLE — The largest survey of worshippers ever conducted in the United States shows that “there is more gray hair in Presbyterian pews today” than in 2001 – Presbyterian worshippers are on average 17 years older than adults in general in the country – and that Presbyterian congregations are getting smaller and experiencing more financial stress than they were nine years ago.
LOUISVILLE The General Assembly Mission Council has approved revised mission budgets for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for 2011 and 2012.
Harold Chapman, 80, pastor of College Hill Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, is being called a hero after he helped a young shooting victim Oct. 4, by fending off his attackers.
(ENI) Hong Kong Christian leaders have urged the government in Beijing to release 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, who was honored for his “long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.”
LOUISVILLE — David Crittenden, of Indianapolis, Ind., has been chosen to lead a new stewardship ministry for the General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC). He will begin service on January 3, 2011.
LONDON (RNS) — Druidry, the pagan worship that has been practiced on these shores for thousands of years, on Oct. 1 gained recognition by the British government as an official religion after a four-year legal battle.
LOUISVILLE — Cynthia Bolbach, moderator of the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008), have announced the names of the 21 members of the General Assembly Commission on Middle Governing Bodies.
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