Film in review – “Art and Craft”
As most of us amateur ethicists have come to realize, it’s one thing to break one of the Ten Commandments. But it..
As most of us amateur ethicists have come to realize, it’s one thing to break one of the Ten Commandments. But it..
First of all, dear readers, you have to see this one in the theater. And let the surround-sound rumble your chair and..
Elsa (Shirley MacLaine) lives in an apartment building in New Orleans where Fred (Christopher Plummer) has just recently moved next door. Fred’s..
NEW YORK – Edna Leigh Dunn Palmer, 97, a lifelong Presbyterian who was one of the ecumenical movement’s most valued and effective..
LAS VEGAS, NEV. (PNS) After a successful Triennial Assembly here that gathered a crowd of more than 200 participants, the new Executive Committee..
O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! For he is our God, and..
by Ronald P. Byars Cascade Books, Eugene, Ore. 150 pages REVIEWED BY JOHN P. BURGESS Ronald Byars believes passionately in weekly communion...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The new worshipping community, Through The Lens, in partnership with the Presbyterian Church of Wyoming has created a..
(RNS) A federal court of appeals rejected a case brought by an atheist organization that would have made tax-exempt clergy housing allowances..
NEW YORK (CWS) The Rev. John L. McCullough and two fellow religious leaders ― including Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk Gradye..
by John Swinton Eerdmanns, Grand Rapids, Mich. 298 pages REVIEWED BY WILLIAM F. MAY John Swinton’s book dares to re-describe the headlong..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) A recent incident involving the Presbyterian Centers for New Church Innovation Inc. (PCNCI) has caused much pain and distrust. It has..
The recent killing of a Christian couple by an angry mob in Pakistan has prompted condemnation from the World Council of Churches..
by Brian K. Blount Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 135 pages No one takes the resurrection more seriously than Brian Blount...
LOUISVILLE (PNS) At a recent meeting of newly elected moderators of presbyteries across the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I was asked to share..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Following a longstanding tradition of speaking to issues in the life of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that touch the basic commitments..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Rev. John M. Coffin, a native Texan and one of the livest wires the Presbyterian Church has ever seen, died..
Sermonize /ser-muh-niz/ (verb) 1. To compose or deliver a sermon. 2. To deliver an opinionated and dogmatic talk to someone. (Merriam Webster..
BALTIMORE (RNS) With a controversial Vatican summit on family life just concluded and a papal visit to the U.S. expected in less..
NEW YORK (PNS) “Give us Free! Give us Free! Give us Free!” At this point in her sanctifying of 193 early-19th Century members..
Jane Clupper, from validated ministry, Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery Kenneth G. Y. Grant, from validated ministry, Northeast Retirement Services, Inc., Woburn, Mass. Thomas..
In J.D. Salinger’s novella “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,” traditional ways of thinking are challenged as the main character deals with..
ANDREW LANG WAS A CELEBRATED Victorian Scottish man of letters who once published a very kind review of a book by a..
A school in Martin Pur, Pakistan, has a new wing of four classrooms. Among those who helped make it possible were Peachtree..
Deb Belusa, to pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Lake Alfred, Fla., by the Presbytery of Tampa Bay Wally Johnson, to pastor, First Presbyterian..