Kenneth Bailey dies

Kenneth E. Bailey, renowned New Testament scholar, seminary professor, author, and Presbyterian career missionary died on Monday, May 23, 2016, at age eighty-five...

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Mental illness: Our story is the church’s story

by Sarah Griffith Lund The tears were ancient, welling up from generations of silence. As Jack, an octogenarian with a smart red..

Book Reviews

Broken and Whole

Broken and Whole by Stephen A. Macchia IVP, Downers Grove, Ill. 208 pages The subtitle of this book defines its purpose: a..

Editorials

Memorial Day: Remembering

The Defense Department maintains the numbers of those killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Enduring Freedom and in New Dawn and..

Presbyterian News Service

Turning guns into water pumps

(PNS) - The ancient biblical vision of turning swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks has stirred the modern-day imagination of Columbia..

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Among M.Div. graduates, a new crop of transgender students

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) - Like other graduates of Wake Forest University’s School of Divinity, Adam Plant walked onstage earlier this month to..

Voices

My hope for General Assembly

Guest commentary by Clay Allard When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s, I watched my father..

Looking into the lectionary

May 29, 2016 – 2nd Sunday after Pentecost

1 Kings 18:20-21 (22-29) 30-39; Galatians 1:1-12; Luke 7:1-10 “How long will you go limping along with two different opinions?” How could..

Book Reviews

The Eternal Cycle of Life: An Illustrated Sermon Series

by Jonas Hayes (illustrated by Anna McDonald) Shook Foil Books, 123 pages REVIEWED BY CASEY FITZGERALD In a culture driven by images..

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Stewarding God’s creation through alternatives to fossil fuel divestment

Guest commentary by Jim Allison The 222nd General Assembly will face the issue of climate change and our response. The agenda includes..

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Loving creation by divesting from fossil fuels

Guest commentary by Abby Mohaupt and Dan Terpstra One of our core beliefs as Presbyterians is that we are called to love..

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Technology expands the congregation for opening worship of GA222

LOUISVILLE (PNS) Several thousand people are expected to gather in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, June 18, for the opening worship service of the..

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Ecumenical and Interreligious Service Recognitions awardees announced

LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Ecumenical and Interreligious Service Recognitions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are a public acknowledgement of the significant service to the..

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Mental illness and the church: Stopping the continuum climb

by Kenneth Phelps Parents of a 4-year-old with autism and intellectual impairment find themselves preoccupied with how their gregarious boy is behaving..

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Calling

Both less and more than family and good friends, still you belong there at the high moments and low, included in the..

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PC(USA) celebrates 60 years of women’s ordination

LOUISVILLE (PNS) For some, there has never been a time where there were not women ministers. But others remember when there were no women..

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What’s right with your church? Cabwaylingo Presbyterian Chapel

Cabwaylingo Presbyterian Chapel Dunlow, West Virginia On a typical Sunday morning, 10 worshippers gather at the Cabwaylingo Presbyterian Chapel in rural, impoverished..

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Pope Francis holds talks with Sunni Islam leader in breakthrough Vatican meeting

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has welcomed the highest authority in Sunni Islam to the Vatican in a significant step forward in..

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David M. Loleng joins the Presbyterian Foundation as Director of Church Financial Literacy and Leadership

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (PNS) – Rev. David M. Loleng has joined the Presbyterian Foundation as Director of Church Financial Literacy and Leadership. Loleng most recently served..