5th Sunday of Lent – March 13, 2016
John 12:1-8 – Lent 5C Six days before Passover, Jesus is in Bethany with his close friends and disciples. Mary and Martha, Lazarus..
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(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?..
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has approved new rules to tighten financial oversight of the canonization process after leaked documents revealed abuses..
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NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) The Anglican Church in Kenya has become the latest province to announce it will boycott the Anglican Consultative Council meeting..
Coalition of Immokalee Workers and PC(USA) staff march at University of Louisville
LOUISVILLE (PNS) More than 120 people, including several Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) staff, took up banners and pickets this week, as they made..
PC(USA) joins Supreme Court brief supporting DACA, DAPA
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..
PC(USA) holds chapel service to honor departing Mission Agency colleagues
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Staff members representing the six agencies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) filled the chapel of the Presbyterian Center this morning..
Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed: Essays on Barth and Other Themes
by George Hunsinger Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 296 pages REVIEWED BY MICHAEL BUSH Though the title suggests that..
Committee to Review the Office of the General Assembly report released: Improved planning, strategic staffing, possible merger are recommended
The Office of the General Assembly – which, after a staff reduction in 2013, is still trying to do much of..
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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 through the doorway of the cross
Easter is a paschal mystery. We can only approach an encounter with Christ’s resurrection through the doorway of the cross. I am..
Palm and Passion Sunday liturgy: Hearing the story through Matthew’s Gospel
Call to Worship A reading from Matthew 21:1-10 One: Rejoice, rejoice, you children of Zion! Shout for joy, you daughters of..
The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
by Kimberly Burge W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 348 pages REVIEWED BY HENRY G. BRINTON At the J.L. Zwane Presbyterian Church..
Moderator Health Rada conducts listening session at Auburn Seminary, encourages participants to “be bold”
Heath Rada, moderator of the 2014 General Assembly, has begun a series of “Call to the Church” discussion sessions around the denomination..
Rosemary C. Mitchell named interim senior director for funds development for PMA
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Rev. Rosemary C. Mitchell, a Presbyterian teaching elder and certified fund-raising executive (CFRE), who joined the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA)..
PC(USA) Board of Pensions to launch new portal, offer employer options
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..
Befriending Silence: Discovering the Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality
by Carl McColman Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 192 pages It’s a little known fact that John Calvin was deeply influenced..
Presbyterian Mission Agency completes voluntary separation program: Incentive package taken by 26 employees
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..
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GA222 registration is open
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..
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