LOUISVILLE — As a denomination losing members, money, and influence, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) can’t just keep on doing things the old familiar way. That much is clear — the resources just aren’t there.
An Independent Abuse Review Panel investigating reports of sexual abuse at Presbyterian-related boarding schools for the children of missionaries is expected to present its findings to the General Assembly Mission Council tomorrow (Oct. 8).
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 membership of the General Assembly Commission on Middle Governing Bodies.
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Mission Council is considering some revisions to the budgets for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for 2011 and 2012. Compared to the deep budget cuts and layoffs the denomination endured last May, however, the changes are relatively small.
LOUISVILLE — david m bailey, a singer/songwriter who moved audiences as much with his story of personal courage in the face of terminal cancer as with his music, succumbed to Glioblastoma on Oct. 2 in hospice care near his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 44.
A Presbyterian stewardship conference is still scheduled to be held in Phoenix, Ariz., in February despite the passage of a General Assembly resolution asking that Presbyterians not hold national meetings at hotels in states “where travel by immigrant Presbyterians or Presbyterians of color or Hispanic ancestry might subject them to harassment.”
GROVE CITY, Ohio Disgruntled conservative Lutherans voted here on August 28 to form a new church denomination that they say will “uphold confessional principles” in response to a 2009 vote of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to allow non-celibate gay and lesbian clergy, and to allow churches to bless same-sex relationships.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) A coalition of mostly conservative religious organizations is urging Congress to amend a proposed bill that would bar them from making personnel decisions based on religion if they receive government funds to treat mental illness and substance abuse.
The Permanent Judicial Commission of Redwoods Presbytery has ruled that Janie Adams Spahr, a minister who performed same-gender weddings in 2008 when such marriages were, for a brief time, legal in California, violated the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The president of Davidson College, Tom Ross, has been chosen succeed Erskine Bowles as president of the University of North Carolina system, beginning in January.
JERUSALEM (RNS) Jewish authorities at the Western Wall hope to replace the existing opaque partition that separates the men’s and women’s prayer areas with one that will enable female worshippers to see into the men's section but not vice-versa.
Believe it or not, Jericho — located at the lowest point on the earth and the world’s oldest continually inhabited city — will be exactly 10,000 years old on October 10, 2010.
October is Pastor Appreciation Month. Appreciation of pastors requires a deepened understanding of the complex world of pastor-congregation dynamics. David True invites us into such explorations. Stephanie Lutz Allen, and Ed Koster dig further. May the understanding expand and the appreciation grow!
STATESVILLE, N.C. — Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly, has written a letter to members of the U.S. Congress urging them to pass the DREAM Act (S.729/H.R.1751).
Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., will inaugurate its 18th president, Beck A. Taylor, on Oct. 15, at 3 p.m., in the Fieldhouse on Whitworth's campus.
LOUISVILLE — A dozen international peacemakers from 10 countries around the world will visit congregations and presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) from Sept. 24-Oct. 18.
In a 5-4 decision, the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of the Pacific has ruled that the Presbytery of San Francisco acted properly when it allowed Lisa Larges to declare a conscientious objection to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s ordination standards regarding sexual practice.
The Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of the Pacific has ruled that the Presbytery of San Francisco acted properly when it allowed Lisa Larges to declare a conscientious objection to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s ordination standards regarding sexual practice.
The New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas will be giving a lecture open to the public at Brick Presbyterian Church at 62 East 92nd Street in Manhattan. The Oct. 7 event is being sponsored by Brick Presbyterian Church and Auburn Theological Seminary in New York; and the Presbyterian Historical Society of Philadelphia, Pa.
