MINNEAPOLIS —Eight overtures that would have empowered pastors to perform marriages for same-gender couples in states where these marriages are legal were effectively tabled with little discussion in a late-night session of the full 219th General Assembly July 8.
Minneapolis — “THERE’S A NEED FOR THE CHURCH TO ADDRESS THE ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN THE GULF AND OUR CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO IT,” said Amber Ellington, Theological Student Advisory Delegate (TSAD) from McCormick Theological Seminary.
MINNEAPOLIS —The General Assembly approved a commissioners’ resolution asking that Presbyterians “refrain from holding national meetings at hotels in those states where travel by immigrant Presbyterians or Presbyterians of color or Hispanic ancestry might subject them to harassment.”
The healthy and growing church will offer multiple and, yes, conflicting faith experiences.
Now that the 219th GA has mercifully ended and the dust on all of the policy decisions is finally settling, what conclusions..
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 5,000 teenagers gathered at the recent Presbyterian Youth Triennium know the issues of the world: the environment, poverty, and war, to name a few.
Ronald Edward Peters, director of the Metro-Urban Institute at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, has been named the new president of The Interdenominational Theological Center, a consortium of African-American seminaries in Atlanta, Ga. He will assume his new duties September 1.
NAIROBI (ENI) — A number of retired Kenyan Protestant church leaders have broken ranks with their successors to mobilise support for a controversial proposed new constitution for the East African nation.
STUTTGART (ENI) — It is easy to lose democracy but difficult to get it back, says the incoming general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, the Rev. Martin Junge.
HONG KONG (ENI) — The new president of the World Alliance of YMCAs has said the movement will do more to provide services to people in need, and must "work urgently" to help young people take up leadership roles in global affairs.
NAIROBI (ENI) — Sudan's Roman Catholic bishops say it is "tragic" their country's political establishment has made national unity unattractive to the people of southern Sudan, who vote on secession from the north in January.
"The Dry Land." Ryan Piers Williams, the writer and director of “The Dry Land,” is the “significant other” of America Ferrerra, so it’s not surprising that she would be a primary figure in his movie about post-traumatic stress disorder. However, she plays the secondary victim, the wife of the man who comes home from war and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life. Click here to read the full review.
“Predators” & “South of The Border.” Click here to read what they both have in common
“Salt” is a throwback movie. Though set in the present, it hearkens back to the Cold War era, when the two world powers on the earth grappled clandestinely in the deadly, covert world of spy networks. The desperation is high because the stakes are ultimate: the threat of nuclear holocaust is imminent and pervasive.
Both sides played at Armageddon scenarios, both sent secret agents deep undercover, preferably in the heart of the highest security clearances of the oblivious enemy. read more
I came a day late to the Assembly. My nephew, raised a Presbyterian, was being married in the Catholic Church. “We are..
HARARE (ENI) — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has lashed out at churches that allow same-sex marriages, and said gay rights would not be included in a new constitution being written for the southern African country.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — There are two kinds of people in the world: those who play it safe and those who take risks, the Rev. Graham Baird told those attending a service July 23 at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium.
I don't remember when I developed a passion and fascination for the mysteries that lie inside the hearts of people who were born in different landscapes than my own. I think this love for cultures developed somewhere between 49th street and 8th Avenue in New York City.
LOUISVILLE — A Senate vote July 15 gave final approval to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act with a landmark provision requiring energy and mining companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose how much they pay to foreign countries and the U.S. government for oil, gas, and minerals. President Barack Obama later signed the bill into law.
Jim Tebbe, vice-president of missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, has been named president of Friends of Forman Christian College (FCC) in Lahore, Pakistan, and president-designate of the college.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI)
David Beckmann and Jo Luck were named co-winners of the 2010 World Food Prize at a June 16 ceremony at the U.S. State Department. The award is often seen as the Nobel Prize on issues related to food security, hunger and farming.
(RNS) The Reformed Church in America’s general synod president wants the church to be a bigger advocate of social justice.
WASHINGTON, D. C. (RNS) President Obama has named Suzan Johnson Cook, a pastor from New York, as his nominee to be ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology and a scholar on the work of Karl Barth, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2010 Karl Barth Award by the jury of the Union of Evangelical Churches in the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Washington D.C. (RNS) Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt has urged members of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States to seek new ways to evangelize and combat declining baptism rates.
Washington D.C. (RNS) Religious organizations reported a 0.7 percent decrease in donations last year, according to a study by Giving USA Foundation, a marked contrast from the 5.5 percent increase in giving reported in 2008. Total donations for all charitable groups in 2009 were down by 3.6 percent.
Warsaw (ENI) Poland’s bishops have warned Roman Catholic Church members that they cannot receive Holy Communion if they support in vitro fertilization, because it is a violation of church law comparable to abortion.
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