Historic Riverside Church recommends first woman as senior minister
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey NEW YORK (RNS) The famed Riverside Church in Manhattan has recommended the Rev. Amy Butler as its seventh..
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Obamacare religious exemption hard to get
by Kathleen O'Brien, The Star-Ledger (RNS) Nestled in the fine print of the Affordable Care Act is a clause that allows people..
PDA responders on the way to Arkansas
by Jerry L. Van Marter LOUISVILLE (PNS) Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) responders are on their way to Arkansas, where strong winds, large hail and..
Letter to the editor – Change: Bane or blessing?
I've been thinking a lot about Christian Education and Christian Educators recently. I'm retired, but I haven't retired my mind and several..
Mission impossible
To correspond with our Spring Books issue, we asked our bloggers to share books that have influenced their ministry. Sometimes I find..
Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5-8
edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas. 166 pages Reviewed BY SEAN MILLER The theology of Romans 5-8 winds..
A teacher of a beginner’s class in a Presbyterian church…
A teacher of a beginner’s class in a Presbyterian church in California tried to explain that God didn’t want us to pray only..
Exodus Christian Presbyterian Church in India
Later this year the Exodus Christian Presbyterian Church in India will launch the Exodus Christian Presbyterian College in Uttar Pradesh in India...
Rich Stearns
“I certainly don’t want to send a message to the gay community that we are anti-gay. We are not. We are pro-people. We believe that..
“Report on World Missions”
60 Years Ago – April 19, 1954 “Missionary obligation is obligation in the world. [The Christian] does not stand over against the..
2015-2016 Budget Approved by the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board
by Kathy Francis LOUISVILLE (PNS) - The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board approved the Presbyterian Mission Agency 2015-16 budgets at its meeting in..
Mission Agency Board tightens budgetary belt
LOUISVILLE – Facing a continuing decline in both membership and giving in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board has..
Protestant and Jewish leaders try to mend rift
by Lauren Markoe (RNS) Prominent mainline Protestant and Jewish leaders are trying to revive an interfaith group that dissolved 18 months ago..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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.)..
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