Stated Clerk’s column: A theology of preciousness
School has started in our city. I watch the young people from our neighborhood trudge up the little hill to the front..
School has started in our city. I watch the young people from our neighborhood trudge up the little hill to the front..
NAIROBI, KENYA (RNS) Five months after Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls in Nigeria’s Borno State, the Islamic extremist group has..
I love when caricatures get blown out of the water. I love when negative caricatures I’ve believed get disproven (I’d rather admit..
In a small house in Portsmouth, Virginia, we sat next to her as she lay in a hospital bed in her dining..
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 6:00 PM Calvary Baptist Church 755 8th St., N.W. Washington, DC 20001 Live-stream at: www.bit.ly/NationalServiceofMourning The loss and suffering..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations and Columbia Theological Seminary have built a tradition that blends two valued Presbyterian hallmarks — public policy..
Process and Providence: The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929 by Bradley J. Gundlach Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 374 pages It is a..
I have an old friend who is a great conversationalist. Recently he proposed that we go on a road trip together, “just..
This spy thriller is kind of in the genre of John le Carre’s literary potboilers: the viewer has to try to piece..
Even we married folks have friends of the opposite gender. And occasionally it will occur to us that we seem to have..
“A MAN CANNOT LIE,” said Sigmund Freud (in the sexist language of his day), “if he lies with his lips he will..
What should a teaching elder and the session try to accomplish in the first year of ministry? If people think that the..
WASHINGTON D.C. – It was late on a recent Friday afternoon when I slipped into New York Avenue Presbyterian Church here to..
Oct. 13-16 Montreat, N.C. More Than None: Engaging the Religiously Unaffiliated featuring Eric Weiner, Gabe Lyons, Katharine Henderson, Rodger Nishioka, Allan Boesak,..
Sept 15-17 Montreat, N.C. Healthy Congregations™ facilitator training. Montreat Conference Center. montreat.org Sept 22-27 Abiquiu, N.M. Change and Conflict in Congregations (Even..
“Not one more name, Israeli or Palestinian, should be added to this list. The violence must stop.” Stated Clerk GRADYE PARSONS, in..
Darren and Elizabeth Kennedy wrote from Egypt about a seminary student named Joseph who fell from a moving train and suffered the..
This one is personal. When I was a young mother with my first child, I took her along to a circle meeting..
70 years ago — August 9, 1944 The range of religion is as wide as life itself. God’s word and God’s will..
C. Phillip Buss, 91, Nov. 12, Daytona Beach, Fla. Richard V. Colen, 84, July 2, 2010, Spanish Fort, Ala. Jean Daugherty, 94,..
Alvin Bridges, from Cornerstone Church, Chicago W. Gail Logan, from chaplain, St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville M. Sidney McCollum, from interim pastor, First..
Tai Zimmerman Magette, to First Church, Arlington Heights, Ill. from First Church, Rock Hill, S.C. Lawrence Hamrick, to parish associative, Lincoln Park..
Richard June Pak, to campus pastor/executive director, at University of Illinois Chicago Agape House
(RNS) The man convicted in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in 2009 that left 13 dead is asking to become a..
MONTREAT, N.C. (PNS) God’s plan for Air Force chaplain Mitchell Holley led him a long way from where he expected to be. Holley..