MINNEAPOLIS – Barbara Lundblad – a Lutheran minister and associate professor of preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York, white-haired, humorous and direct – started her sermon Nov. 7 by saying that the Presbyterians and Lutherans are in full communion, but not always in the same place in the lectionary. For example, last August 17 both Presbyterians and Lutherans heard the New Testament story of the Canaanite woman.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Just days after Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first African-American president, progressive Presbyterians are considering what change looks like.
MINNEAPOLIS – The idea of living in covenant with God – listening, hearing, responding, following, being faithful, being loved – is both basic and complicated stuff.
Preachers and professors at the national gathering of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians, which has drawn just over 400 people to Westminster Church in Minneapolis on Nov. 6-8, have been trying to tease their own meanings out of the idea of an enduring and challenging covenant with a faithful God.
(ENI) — U.S. religious leaders and denominations have issued calls for Americans to unite in support of Barack Obama, following his election as the first mixed-race president of the United States.
In a November 5 statement that captured the enormous pride that the election of Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan father and white mother from Kansas, has elicited among African Americans, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, a predominately black denomination, said Obama had won "one of the most historic elections in American history".
Inspired by the Rev. Fred (Mister) Rogers, the Presbyterian Media Mission (PMM) is once again teaming with Presbyterian churches, The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and United Way in an effort to collect winter clothing for those in need.
(ENI)--Kenyan church leaders have hailed the election of Senator Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America, saying it is a positive turn for Africa that can help steer good governance on the continent.
LOUISVILLE — One hundred seventeen years and counting.
The 2009 edition of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is hot off the press and, as usual, is flying off the shelves. “The print run is 40,000 and we usually distribute all of those,” Yearbook editor Billie Healy told the Presbyterian News Service in a Nov. 4 interview.
(ENI)--John Calvin, known for his role in the Protestant Reformation from Geneva during the 16th century, has been praised as one of the history's most astute theologians at a ceremony to launch a year of events to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth.
(ENI) Swiss chocolatier Blaise Poyet believes he has captured the essence of the Protestant reformer Jean Calvin in special chocolate pralines he created to mark the 500th anniversary of the religious figure who made his mark on European history.
(ENI)--Christian emergency response organizations have expressed alarm at a deteriorating situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and about brutalities innocent civilians are facing in a potential humanitarian catastrophe.
(ENI)--Churches in India have joined in widespread denunciation of a series of bomb blasts that killed at least 76 people and left more than 400 injured in Assam state, in north-east India, and that also damaged a Baptist center.
John Malkovich plays Presbyterian minister the Rev. Dr. Gustav Briegleb in Clint Eastwood’s new film “Changeling”.
The film tells the story of how in 1928 the minister came to the aid of Christine Collins, a mother who was wrongly imprisoned in a psychiatric ward because she insisted that the boy whom the police had returned to her was not her kidnapped nine-year-old son, Walter. (Ron Salfen’s OUTLOOK review of this film is also available on this Web site, under “Reviews.”)
Editor’s Note: Jack Haberer, current Outlook editor, was a member of the Theological Task Force on the Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church. He accepted that assignment before coming to The Presbyterian Outlook.
Ever since G-6.0106b was added to the Book of Order, I have been working with other Presbyterians to remove or replace it because — I am convinced — it is Biblically, theologically, and legally unsound. In June, the General Assembly placed before the church as Amendment 08-B a beautifully-crafted alternative. Grateful as I am to the framers from Boston Presbytery and the commissioners who recognized the value of their work, I do not think that it will benefit the church to act on this constitutional amendment this year.
John Adams warned against the forming of political parties. He feared the divisiveness would tear the nation apart — with good reason.
Christians sensing they are almost aliens in their own cultures have a lot in common with the first century believers, according to Jim Edwards of Whitworth University, who taught a Bible study at the closing session of this year’s Presbyterian Coalition 11th Annual Gathering in Newport Beach, Calif., October 15.
DECATUR, GEORGIA — Laura Mendenhall announced Oct. 8 that she will conclude her tenure as president of Columbia Theological Seminary at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year.
In the waning moments of the General Assembly Council meeting, Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly, floated an idea.
Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has issued a statement condemning the hanging of effigies of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Word has reached the OUTLOOK that Louis H. Evans, Jr., once pastor of Bel Air Church in Los Angeles, Calif., and National Church in Washington, D.C., died at home Oct. 28 in his sleep. His wife of more than 50 years, Colleen Townsend Evans, was with him.
LOUISVILLE — Adding its voice to the widespread public concern for possible voter disenfranchisement, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy [www.pcusa.org/acswp] (ACSWP) Oct. 27 released a report entitled, “Lift Every Voice: Democracy, Voting Rights, and Electoral Reform”.
(ENI) -- The leader of Zimbabwe's largest functioning alliance of Christians says the country's main grouping of traditional Protestant churches and the African and global umbrella church organizations with which it is affiliated have been notable for their silence on what is happening in his country.
(ENI)--Church leaders and activists have hailed as "courageous" the decision by a young Roman Catholic nun to publicly recount how she was raped by Hindu extremists in India's eastern Orissa state, and who has reiterated her demand for federal police to investigate the case.
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