CANTERBURY — (ENI) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has appealed to the opposing parties in a dispute over homosexuality that has torn apart the Anglican Communion to listen to each other and to take a "generous initiative" to reach out to the other side.
LOUISVILLE — Second Church in Knoxville, Tenn., became a temporary refuge Sunday (July 27) for children fleeing a Unitarian church where a gunman opened fire killing two adults and leaving seven others injured.
LOUISVILLE — (PNS) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s World Mission ministry area has named two new staff members whose primary duties are to help grassroots Presbyterians engage directly in international mission.
BEND, ORE. — Mark Yaconelli has a hard-won reputation helping youth pastors and leaders to find new ways to disciple young people. But late last week before a crowd of about 90 people attending Cascades Presbytery’s annual summer conference, Yaconelli’s focus was on a far older concept — Sabbath-making and Sabbath-taking.
LOUISVILLE — The World Council of Churches (WCC) is seeking five young people ages 18-30 to serve as interns in the ecumenical organization’s Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters from February 2009-January 2010.
Hope but also work for justice and peace participants were admonished in the final evening’s session of the Peacemaking Conference held July 15-19 in Orange, Calif.
SAN JOSE – The question of how Christians can witness to their faith in an interfaith world is never easy — and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is hoping to provide guidance in that through a new ecumenical policy statement.
SAN JOSE – The Rev. Byron Wade, pastor of the Davie Street Church of Raleigh, N.C., was confirmed as vice moderator of the 218th General Assembly on June 25. In his address before the Assembly, Wade demonstrated the hope and enthusiasm he has for the church of Jesus Christ. He answered the installation questions while the one who chose him for his new role, GA Moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow, looked on.
SAN JOSE — In a vote reflecting how divided the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to be, the 218th General Assembly recommended June 27 by a narrow margin that the denomination change its constitution to remove the impediments that have been disallowing the ordination of sexually-active gays and lesbians.
SAN JOSE — Just hours after voting to recommend that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) change its rules to make it easier for gays and lesbians to be ordained, the 218th General Assembly on June 27 turned down an overture that would have changed the definition of marriage in the church’s constitution, to say that marriage is between “two people” rather than between a man and a woman.
SAN JOSE – The 218th General Assembly sent a proposed revision of the denomination’s Form of Government back for more work – with a report to come back to the next General Assembly in 2010.
SAN JOSE — The official 2007 statistics for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) were released June 20 by the Office of the General Assembly on the convening day of the 218th General Assembly.
SAN JOSE — By a 5-to-1 margin, the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on June 27 approved “A Social Creed for the 21st Century,” exactly 100 years after the “Social Creed” of 1908 spoke to the harshness of industrial life at the turn of the last century.
A Church Growth and Christian Education Committee recommendation to produce human development resources for adolescents was approved by the 218th General Assembly June 25 after deliberations that included passionate, personal arguments for and against the creation of what was expected to take form as a new curriculum.
SAN JOSE – Commissioners to the 218th General Assembly voted to begin a four-year process to retranslate parts or all of the Heidelberg Catechism. After defeating a minority report that would have left intact the translation that was added to the Book of Confessions in 1967, the commissioners approved the plan of retranslation by a vote of 436 to 280.
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Publishing Corporation (PPC), the official publisher for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has unveiled a new management team following the confirmation of Marc Lewis as president and publisher.
“Sowing Mustard Seeds: Working for God’s Justice — Confronting Poverty” is the theme of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Conference that began Tuesday (July 15) in Orange, Calif. The conference, being held on the campus of Chapman University, concludes July 19.
LOUISVILLE — The three top leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have sent a follow-up letter to the one they issued immediately after the recent 218th General Assembly, asking Presbyterians “to continue to celebrate with us good news of our General Assembly and of our Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).”
