Statement from the Moderator about the GA221 Middle East Issues Committee

by Toya Richards Jackson LOUISVILLE (PNS) - The Reverend Neal Presa, Moderator of the 220th General Assembly (2012) of the Presbyterian Church..

Outlook Reporting

Mission Agency Board approves plan for Stony Point

LOUISVILLE, KY. — Those involved in discussions over the last two months about the future of Stony Point Center outside New York..

Outlook Reporting

Valentine nominated to third term as executive director

Linda Valentine, executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, has been nominated for a third four-year term as head of the national..

Outlook Reporting

Denominational mission budget pared down

LOUISVILLE – With fewer resources, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the next two years will be doing fewer things and focusing on..

Outlook Features

How I would have moderated the Committee On Middle East Issues (had I not been asked to resign)

It might have been one of the shortest assignments in the history of the Presbyterian Church. On April 1, the Office of..

Book Reviews

Bookmark: Without Apology — Sermons for Christ’s Church

Without Apology — Sermons for Christ’s Church by Stanley Hauerwas Seabury Books, New York. 169 pages. Hauerwas is a theologian with a..

Book Reviews

Reading For Preaching

by Cornelius Plantinga Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 133 pages Reviewed by ROY W. HOWARD I’ve been a pastor for..

Religion News Service

Ukrainian order to register Jews may have a Westboro corollary (Commentary)

by Jeffrey Weiss (RNS) Now it seems clear that last week’s story about Ukrainian Jews being ordered to “register” was both real..

Book Reviews

Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis

by Patricia K. Tull Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 193 pages Reviewed by SUSAN GILBERT ZENCKA When I first heard..

Outlook Reporting

Proposed mission budget for discussion at PMAB meeting

The mission budget for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for the next two years would stand at $73.6 million for 2015 and $78.2..

Outlook Reporting

Stony Point proposal to be presented at PMAB this week

After a long and somewhat contentious stretch of trying to figure out the future of Stony Point Center, here’s what the Presbyterian..

Presbyterian News Service

Religious leaders release Easter statement to end war on drugs and mass incarceration

by Toya Richards Jackson LOUISVILLE (PNS) A coalition of Christian leaders that includes the Reverend Robina Winbush of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)..

Presbyterian News Service

Novel set in the Civil War wins First Book Award: Presbyterian Writers Guild selects Robert John Andrews for prize

by Jerry L. Van Marter LOUISVILLE (PNS) The Presbyterian Writers Guild has selected the Rev. Robert John Andrews, a pastor in Danville,..

Religion News Service

Jews ordered to register in east Ukraine

by Oren Dorell, USA Today (RNS) Jews in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk where pro-Russian militants have taken over government buildings..

Book Reviews

Glory To God: The Presbyterian Hymnal

Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. Reviewed by GARY PANETTA Faced with crisis, Elijah returns to the story of God’s mighty acts..

Ordinations

Ordinations (from the April 28, 2014 issue)

Heather Cameron, to stated supply pastor, Bennett Church, Bennett, Colo., and chaplain, St. Anthony Centura Hospital, Lakewood, Colo., by Denver Presbytery Sharon..

Honorably retired

Retirements (from the April 28, 2014 issue)

Elizabeth Alexander, from designated pastor, Church of Gethsemane, Brooklyn, N.Y. Joseph B. Carle, from member-at- large, Blue Springs, Mo. Rodney V. Castro,..

Transitions

Transitions (from the April 28, 2014 issue)

Thomas Daniel, from pastor, Kairos Church, Atlanta, to pastor, Covenant Church, Austin, Texas Cathy Hamrick, from member-at- large, Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery, to..

Digital Issues

April 28, 2014: Digital issue for subscribers

The digital issue of the Presbyterian Outlook’s April 28, 2014 issue is now available! It is viewable on almost all computers, tablets, and smartphones...

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