Lenten fasting

This week we asked our bloggers what they had learned from spiritual practices and disciples. This is how they responded. In Matthew..

Presbyterian News Service

PC(USA) anxiously awaits proposed revision to Indiana RFRA law

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and..

Presbyterian News Service

Beyond time-limited essays

In a press release sent out on Friday, March 27, 2015, the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates (PCC) announced some significant changes..

Outlook Reporting

Where to start? Untangling governance, transparency and finances in the PC(USA)

The Presbyterian Mission Agency has been rocked in recent months by a trifecta of investigations and a lot of criticism involving the..

Prayers for the moment

Much discussion about the marriage amendment: Going back to Acts

Lately, I’ve been drawn back to Acts. Specifically, Acts 11 and 15. As I read, certain phrases and sentences stand out. Phrases..

Voices

Fasting: When what is harmless keeps us from God

This week we asked our bloggers what they had learned from spiritual practices and disciples. This is how they responded. This Lent,..

Religion News Service

New York City to change rules to allow churches to rent schools

NEW YORK (RNS) Congregations in New York City that rent space in public schools will be able to hold Easter services this..

Religion News Service

Jesus is all over the small screen, and that’s no accident

Need proof that biblical entertainment is Hollywood’s holiest trend? Then look no further than Morocco, where three TV projects — National Geographic..

Religion News Service

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence: ‘Not going to change’ religious freedom law

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence defended his state’s new religious freedom law Sunday (March 29) while refusing to say if it would allow..

Presbyterian News Service

Living Missionally Under the Big Tent

LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s fourth Big Tent event runs July 30–August 1, 2015 in Knoxville, Tennessee. For the first time, Big Tent..

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Presbyterian Foundation adds new service for churches and ministries

JEFFERSONVILLE, IND. (PNS) The Presbyterian Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of the Planned Giving Navigator as a service to churches and other..

Editorials

If Christ had not been raised

“ … and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in..

Outlook Horizons Studies

Strength in weakness (Horizons 9)

HORIZONS BIBLE STUDY 2014-2015 RECONCILING PAUL Lesson Nine, 2 Corinthians 12:1-13:13 A competitive married couple constantly fought about their families. Each constantly..

Honorably retired

Honorably retired (from the March 30, 2015 issue)

Susan Quinn Bryan, from pastor, Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio Jill Hawk Clupper, from validated ministry, Sojourn Institute for Spiritual Formation,..

Benedictory

Doing the truth

MARCUS BORG DIED IN LATE JANUARY. He was a famous — though many would say infamous — Bible scholar and theologian. Borg..

From the Archives

20 years ago – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-1945 Costly Grace and the Quick Fix

20 years ago — March 27, 1995 “Even before his prison experience he was beginning to see his responsibilities ‘from the perspective..

Presbyterians in Action

South Sudan

New service in a difficult ministry in South Sudan is the future for Lynn and Sharon Kandel. After language training they will..

Ordinations

Ordinations (from the March 30, 2015 issue)

Annie Duncan, to temporary associate pastor, Bellevue First Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, Wash., by Seattle Presbytery Allysen Schaaf, to associate pastor, Decatur Presbyterian..

Transitions

Transitions (from the March 30, 2015 issue)

Catherine Elizabeth Foster, to associate pastor, Shallowford Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, from associate pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Nashville David A. Grachek, from pastor,..

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