Presbyterian Disaster Assistance responds to water contamination in small New York community
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Reports of water contamination in U.S. communities appear to be happening more frequently than before. What used to be perceived as..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Reports of water contamination in U.S. communities appear to be happening more frequently than before. What used to be perceived as..
Guest commentary by Ken Evers-Hood Some games are just no fun. The prisoner’s dilemma is one of the worst. In it, two..
John 12:1-8 – Lent 5C Six days before Passover, Jesus is in Bethany with his close friends and disciples. Mary and Martha, Lazarus..
(RNS) Evangelicals vote for Donald Trump. No, Ted Cruz. Wait. Aren’t some Christians voting for Hillary Clinton, a Methodist, and Bernie Sanders, a Jew?..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has approved new rules to tighten financial oversight of the canonization process after leaked documents revealed abuses..
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) The Anglican Church in Kenya has become the latest province to announce it will boycott the Anglican Consultative Council meeting..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) More than 120 people, including several Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) staff, took up banners and pickets this week, as they made..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was among twenty-four Catholic, Evangelical, and Protestant faith-based organizations that filed an amicus brief March 9 with..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Staff members representing the six agencies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) filled the chapel of the Presbyterian Center this morning..
by George Hunsinger Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 296 pages REVIEWED BY MICHAEL BUSH Though the title suggests that..
The Office of the General Assembly – which, after a staff reduction in 2013, is still trying to do much of..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Small churches can have big ministries. Four years ago, the 36-member Lavonia (Georgia) Presbyterian Church had no children’s Sunday school. The..
Easter is a paschal mystery. We can only approach an encounter with Christ’s resurrection through the doorway of the cross. I am..
Call to Worship A reading from Matthew 21:1-10 One: Rejoice, rejoice, you children of Zion! Shout for joy, you daughters of..
by Kimberly Burge W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 348 pages REVIEWED BY HENRY G. BRINTON At the J.L. Zwane Presbyterian Church..
Heath Rada, moderator of the 2014 General Assembly, has begun a series of “Call to the Church” discussion sessions around the denomination..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Rev. Rosemary C. Mitchell, a Presbyterian teaching elder and certified fund-raising executive (CFRE), who joined the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA)..
PHILADELPHIA (PNS) The board of directors for the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) met last week to report on the..
by Carl McColman Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 192 pages It’s a little known fact that John Calvin was deeply influenced..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Twenty-six of 46 eligible employees of the Presbyterian Mission Agency of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have taken voluntary separation packages as part of..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The website that houses Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly business has gotten a facelift and tummy tuck. PC-Biz, home to assembly..
Heralded as one of the most gifted urban young gospel singers of our time, Tasha Cobbs hails from the small town of..
Joshua 5:9-12; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 – Lent 4C Maybe you can go home again. Returning home wounded, even if..
(RNS) There is intense anticipation in the Catholic Church — and no small amount of anxiety for traditionalists — over what Pope..
As I write this on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, the results of Super Tuesday are in the books. Trump won – maybe..