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..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP)—through its Joining Hands program—is inviting people interested in digging deeper into the root causes of poverty to join one of..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Registration is open for the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), where some 3,000 Presbyterians and others will..
There appears to be a math equation in this quote from John Calvin. Toleration plus pardon plus mercy equals freedom—the freedom defined..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Rev. MaryAnn McKibben Dana, a writer, pastor, conference leader, and highly sought-after speaker, has been named the recipient of the..
I just finished a wonderful few days with colleagues and fellow Presbyterians at the Next Church Conference in Atlanta. The theme of..
And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain, behind someone..
Presbyterians love Lent. I have the data to prove it. With thousands of visitors each year, the webpages for the season..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Just hours after the movie “Spotlight” picked up the best picture prize at the Academy Awards, the Vatican newspaper..
Joseph E. Beltran, 58, Jun. 25, Lake Forest, Calif. James Pattison Darroch, 86, Jun. 30, Mt. Laurel, N.J. Benjamin L. Eller Jr.,..
In September the Presbyterian Pan American School in Texas dedicated the new Harte Student Center, the latest improvement in a long plan of improving..
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