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“Why does our country want you here but your country doesn’t want us there?” This was the innocent question that Panchito, my..
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BOP’s Spencer charts ‘optimistic’ course
Using language far more theological than his predecessors, new Board of Pensions President Frank Spencer urged the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s pension and..
Presbyterian Faith That Lives Today (bookmark)
Donald K. McKim Geneva Press, Louisville, Ky. 124 pages No one has done a better job of describing the Presbyterian tradition for..
PC(USA), Taiwanese Presbyterians agree on renewed mission and ministry together
HSIN-CHU AND TAIPEI, TAIWAN (PNS) Due to a series of personnel changes and organizational adjustment, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) had not been..
An eerie calm: Iraqi Christians anxiously ponder their future
ALQOSH, Iraq (RNS) Basima al-Safar retouches a picture of Jesus on an easel outside her house overlooking the flat Nineveh plains, 30 miles..
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Eckerd College offer doctor of ministry degree
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Eckerd College are partnering to offer the Doctor of Ministry Parish Focus degree in St. Petersburg, Fla. It..
Conflict in “ordinary” churches
Guest commentary from Leanna Fuller Two weeks ago, well-known pastor Mark Driscoll resigned from Mars Hill Church, a Seattle-based mega-church. Whether or..
Local mission to babies (and their parents)
ARE THERE SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD BABIES, or perhaps your own grandchildren, whom you wish had more connection to church? That the parents of..
Looking radically outward
I figure 1957 was the high-water mark of mainline Protestantism in the U.S. Although mainline churches kept growing until 1965, it..
Calendar Check – November 2014
Nov. 2-5 Richmond, Va. Celebrating 100 years of the Assembly’s Training School for Lay Workers and the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. Union Presbyterian Seminary. atspscecentennial.org Nov...
John Chalmers
“Recovery and healing [are] a soul searching matter and, for me, that is deeply spiritual — so no quick fix. Instead, it..
Tough places to be these days
Tough places to be these days: Mission co-worker Nadia Ayoub is working with Roma children in the Ukraine. Steve and Cinda Gorman..
A third grade girl…
A third grade girl in a Sunday school class in Oregon interrupted the teacher’s Bible story to ask a question. “If Jesus..
From my study window (50 years ago — October 26, 1964)
“‘I don’t want to be obligated to anyone. If you receive favors from people, that puts you in their debt.” Reflecting theologically,..
Deceased (from the Oct. 27, 2014 issue)
Donna Louise Alora, 71, March 10, Boise, Idaho Joseph Lee Barr, 84, March 28, Liberty, Kan. Elmon H. Brown, 80, Jan. 11,..
Honorably retired (from the Oct. 27, 2014 issue)
George B. Antonakos, from associate pastor, Central Presbyterian Church, Baltimore Donald M. Bolls, from pastor, Aspinwall Presbyterian Church, Aspinwall, Pa. Alvin Bridges,..
Transitions (from the Oct. 27, 2014 issue)
Jack Cabaness, from pastor, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Westminster, Colo., to pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Katonah, N.Y. Susan Friedl, to interim pastor, Calvary..
Anniversaries (from the Oct. 27, 2014 issue)
First Presbyterian Church, Effingham, Ill., 150 years Highland Presbyterian Church, Street, Md., 125 years
Frank Schaefer wins final reinstatement with Methodists
(RNS) Seven years after officiating at the wedding of his gay son, the Rev. Frank Schaefer has been reinstated as a clergyman..
Presbyterian Investment & Loan Program (PILP) Names Jim Rissler President
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Presbyterian Investment & Loan Program (PILP) board of directors has named James G. “Jim” Rissler as its next President & Chief..
New WCRC General Secretary stresses solidarity to bring change
LOUISVILLE (PNS) One of the main goals the Reverend Christopher Ferguson has as the new general secretary of the World Communion of Reformed..
Aja leaving OGA position
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Veteran Office of the General Assembly (OGA) staffer Loyda Puig Aja has announced her resignation as director of Ecclesial Ministry..
Idaho city: Chapel owners exempt from discrimination law
(RNS) Husband-and-wife Pentecostal ministers who own a wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, refused to marry same-sex couples after a recent court..
Is California forcing churches to pay for abortions?
(RNS) Religious groups are battling the state of California over whether employee health insurance plans require them to pay for abortions and some..
Secularism grows as more U.S. Christians turn ‘churchless’
(RNS) If you’re dismayed that one in five Americans (20 percent) are “nones” — people who claim no particular religious identity —..
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