As this magazine goes to print, thousands of Presbyterians are gathering in Minneapolis, Minn., for the meetings of the 219th General Assembly. By the time this edition arrives in your home or study, the actions of the GA will have concluded, as reported in detail on our Web site (www.pres-outlook.org) and summarized in brief in our Post-GA Bulletin Insert (can be purchased at the Website).
GRAND RAPIDS
With calls for reconciliation, the healing of old wounds, and the courage to act for peace and justice in the world, the two major networks of Reformed Christians around the globe have combined to form a new body, the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Complied from reports by ENI and Religion News Service
“Good evangelism” and “bad evangelism” came under discussion when a diverse group of Christians gathered to discuss the 1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference 100 years later in the capital of Scotland.
Kristen Riegel, from Batavia, N.Y., is the 2010 recipient of The Presbyterian Outlook Church-College Partnership Award. Judges selected her essay on the assigned topic, “How my education at a PC(USA)-related college has shaped my faith and prepared me for significant service and leadership” as this year’s best entry.
When Tom Hay went to Scotland in May as a representative of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) attending the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, he kept his eyes open for good ideas.
I had a conversation the other day with a good friend. He and I usually disagree on most things. Our argument began with the old question, “What would you do if you were driving through a one stoplight town in the middle of the night and the light was red?” He contended that the “rules are the rules,” while I argued that I would stop and look both ways and go on.
Sometimes when I feel down about the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) , I wonder who the last Presbyterian will be.
Editor’s Note: This essay is one in a series probing challenges to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its Reformed heritage to find fresh theological language in a time of great ferment and polarization. “With battle lines drawn, cracks showing, and widespread distrust, this question hits Presbyterians especially hard,” says the author.
3 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 2, Act and Being, ed. Wayne Whiston Floyd, trans. H. Martin Rumscheidt (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), 112.
WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — The Presbyterian Youth Triennium, held on the campus of Purdue University this week, is a place for music.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — As a young girl, Debra Matthews was inspired to "step into greatness" at a Stillman College step show. The young adults who were performing weren’t much older than the thousands of youth gathered at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium here this week.
(ENI) — Archbishop Desmond Tutu, — Nobel Peace Prize laureate has announced his intention to wind down his public engagements, when he turns 79 in October.
(ENI) The 70-million strong Lutheran World Federation has struggled to live up to its
own vision of inclusiveness regarding the role of women, LWF General Secretary
Ishmael Noko, has told LWF members.
(ENI) — The outgoing president of the Lutheran World Federation has appealed to delegates at a global Lutheran gathering in Germany to hold together and avoid splits in the face of differences over issues of sexuality.
Editor's Note: Presbyterian hymnist Carolyn Gillette is introducing a new hymn through The Presbyterian Outlook relating to Biblical persons who were "strangers in a foreign land" called "Abraham Journeyed to a Far Country."
It’s dangerous too draw many conclusions from scant evidence. But, I’m a blogger – we live to break (or at least push)..
What do PC(USA) General Assembly meetings and heaven have in common? You keep running into people you didn’t expect to see.General Assembly..
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