PC(USA) communication changes at the denominational level

Several changes are in the works involving how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) communicates with people at the grass roots. Kathy Francis, the..

Religion News Service

Panel offers pastors advice on becoming ‘ministers of reconciliation’ in African-American communities

ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) Christian ministers should establish relationships with law enforcement, seek ways to become moral authorities in their communities and listen...

Presbyterian News Service

Regarding ruling elders: Ruling elders and presbytery

LOUISVILLE (PNS) “The presbytery is the council serving as a corporate expression of the church within a certain district and is composed of..

Outlook Reporting

World Mission financial shortfall: Will PC(USA) mission co-workers be recalled?

LOUISVILLE – Unless Presbyterians step up and give more money, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) may be forced to recall about one-fourth of..

Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterian World Mission faces potential funding shortfall in 2016 & 2017

Louisville (PNS) While work is fully funded for 2015, based on financial projections using 2014 actual receipts, the Presbyterian Mission Agency is..

Voices

Blessing for the Community of Saints

This week we asked our bloggers to share a liturgy they’ve crafted. In our annual service of healing and wholeness, we’ve started..

News from other sources

Dr. Leanne Van Dyk named tenth president of Columbia Theological Seminary

DECATUR, GA. — The Board of Trustees for Columbia Theological Seminary voted unanimously today to appoint Dr. Leanne Van Dyk to be the..

Outlook Reporting

Mission Agency Board to meet this week: A preview of PC(USA) fundraising challenges

While the fundraising staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is hard at work trying to raise money to support the denomination’s mission..

Multichannel Church Report

Lively highways

I had a stark revelation in February as I drove across the Mojave Desert on day three of “Fresh Day on the..

Presbyterians in Action

South Sudan

South Sudan is an area easy for us to overlook. Battles and looting around Malakal in recent years caused people to lose..

Deaths

Deceased (from the April 13, 2015 issue)

Clay D. Bostic, 85, Sept. 23, Norman, Okla. Z. Floyd Bowerman, 102, Sept. 17, Vero Beach, Fla. Joseph S. Donchez, 84, Oct...

Honorably retired

Honorably retired (from the April 13, 2015 issue)

Cheng-Hsien Chen, from pastor, Taiwan Presbyterian Church of Greater Chicago, Des Plaines, Ill. David L. Dobler, from executive presbyter, Alaska Presbytery James..

From the Archives

In the light of the promise – 30 years ago

30 years ago — April 1, 1985 Maybe in the heart of the disciples there was “a feeling of relief when Jesus..

In This Corner

Have you heard of St. Francis?

A Sunday school teacher asked a junior high group, “Have you ever heard of St. Francis?” One youth answered immediately — “He’s..

Uncategorized

Mission partnerships

Getting results, finishing assignments, accomplishing something tangible — we live in a task-oriented culture that has deeply shaped our understanding of ourselves..

Transitions

Transitions (from the April 13, 2015 issue)

Richard Floyd, to interim pastor, Church of the New Covenant, Doraville, Ga. Shelli Latham, to pastor, Druid Hills Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, from..

Benedictory

Faith remembered

MEMORY IS COMPLEX, YET CRUCIAL to much of life. As well as providing creatures with mental patterns of essential routines, it’s the..

Book Reviews

Jesus without Borders: Christology in the Majority World

Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue and K.K. Yeo, editors William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 193 pages The full-grown humanity of Christ,”..

He/She Said

Kara Tragesser

“I think all of us were just so wanting a miracle to happen. And a lot of the times when you want a..

Religion News Service

Anglican Communion’s new secretary general draws praise from Africa, condemnation elsewhere

(RNS) African Anglicans welcomed the appointment of a Nigerian bishop as the next secretary general of the 85 million-member Anglican Communion, even as..

Editorials

Devouring words

It was late. The prophets, both major and minor, were running together. Elisha, Elijah. Zephaniah, Zechariah. Amos, Hosea, Habakkuk. Index cards littered..