Stated Clerk issues Call to Prayer

(OGA) Dear Friends in Christ, Your Moderators and I are greatly troubled by the political struggle that is underway in our nation’s capital,..

What's right?

What’s right about Venice Presbyterian Church?

Venice Presbyterian Church — Venice, Florida Venice Presbyterian Church is a happy place! VPC started the first Family Promise in town by inviting..

Religion News Service

James K.A. Smith: St. Augustine might just be the therapist we need today

NEW YORK (RNS) — The morning after an event at Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture last week, theologian James K.A...

Religion News Service

At Amazon synod, women insist that equality should mean the right to vote

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Catholic women attending the summit of bishops at the Vatican on the Amazon region praised the climate of..

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Kate Bowler on how evangelical women carved a niche in celebrity culture

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Kate Bowler began to take an interest in the role of evangelical women as a 14-year-old at Mennonite..

Religion News Service

Yom Kippur shooting in Germany latest indication of increasing anti-Semitism

(AP) — The shooting that left two dead and several injured in Halle, Germany, on Wednesday (Oct. 9) — when Jews celebrated..

Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterian, Episcopal representatives convene third round of dialogues

GLENDALE, Ohio — Representatives from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and The Episcopal Church met this week at the Transfiguration Spirituality Center in..

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Equity and Inclusion: Moving the church forward

LOUISVILLE (OGA) The six agencies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and two entities (Presbyterian Women and A Corporation’s Administrative Services Group) were directed..

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Living Waters for the World celebrates 1,000 clean water partnerships

OXFORD, Mississippi — When 58 mission volunteers representing 17 states and four countries gathered at Camp Hopewell for the 62nd session of..

Voices

Gratitude for women in ministry: Juanita and the lady preachers

Today, I sat in the critical care unit and held my friend Juanita’s hand as her family made decisions about whether to..

Looking into the lectionary

18th Sunday after Pentecost — October 13, 2019

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19 Ordinary 28C; Proper 23 God traverses all manner of boundaries this week, debunking human..

Presbyterian News Service

Five partners in the Christian Formation Collective gather for idea swapping, support

LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Michelle Phillips, the acting director for the Presbyterian Youth Workers’ Association (PYWA), said a recent face-to-face-gathering of the Christian..

Outlook Reporting

CoInspire: Photo gallery

MONTREAT, N.C. — How can the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) address systemic racism in the church? Montreat Conference Center hosted CoInspire Oct. 7-10,..

Book Reviews

The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities

Kate Bowler Princeton University Press, 368 pages Reviewed by Jill Duffield How do women in Christian traditions where official leadership roles are..

Presbyterian News Service

Food Week of Action will focus on ‘life and death’ issues

LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Food Week of Action is an annual celebration of God’s Creation and the many people around the world who grow the..

Religion News Service

2 killed in shooting near German synagogue; 1 person arrested

HALLE, Germany (AP) — Several shots were fired Wednesday (Oct. 9) in the eastern German city of Halle, leaving two people dead..

Insights columns

Words matter

After the tumultuous election season of 2016, my co-pastor and I wrote “a letter of solidarity” to our congregation. Many had been..

Benedictory

Making change

A few months ago I flew to Oklahoma City to keynote at a conference about 90 miles outside of the city. I..

Religion News Service

Opinion: The economic (and Christian) case for hiring refugees

(RNS) — As a white evangelical Christian from a rural town in Georgia, I grew up around people who looked like me,..

Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterian educators address their organization’s lack of diversity

LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Knowing that the membership and leadership of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (APCE) is nearly 100 percent white..

Presbyterian News Service

Communal Conversion: the path to becoming a neighborhood church

LOUISVILLE (OGA) How do churches connect with their neighbors? What barriers do they need to break in order to establish that relationship? Neighborhood..