Malaysian Muslims ask Vatican to recall envoy over use of “Allah”
BANGKOK, Thailand (RNS) The Vatican’s first envoy to Muslim-majority Malaysia should quit and go back to Rome, angry Malaysian Islamists said after..
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Confessions of a Privileged Progressive Presbyterian
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them” ― Elie Wiesel..
Christian bails Muslims out of Nigerian jail
Most victimized in Syria? Young Christian women
Syria’s young Christian women are bearing the biggest brunt of the two-year-old civil war, according to a human rights group. The report..
Multicultural faith experience under the Big Tent
LOUISVILLE - The third Big Tent event runs Aug. 1-3 in Louisville. This time around, the event’s over-arching theme — “Putting God’s First Things..
Mississippi-Made Documentary Earns International Recognition
GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI- Delta 180: Changing Lives in the Mississippi Delta, a documentary film about the Delta 180 program operating in Greenville, Mississippi, won..
Fire officials say Claremore Christ Presbyterian Church total loss after Saturday night fire
CLAREMORE, Okla. - Firefighters say an overnight fire destroyed a Claremore church late Saturday. Officials say 12 agencies responded to the..
New beginning for Valley’s Presbyterian churches
Book review – Restless Fires: Young John Muir’s Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68
by James B. Hunt Mercer University Press, Macon, Ga. 240 pages John Muir may be best known as the founder..
Film in review: “Red 2”
Remember the old James Bond movies, the ones that featured tongue-in-cheek bravado? The more recent Bond movies have ditched the campy humor..
New Hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette “We Pray for Youth We Dearly Love”
Coptic Christian church destroyed by Egypt looters
There has been a string of attacks on Christians in different provinces in Egypt since Mohammed Morsi was forced from office, with..
Sara Moseley, former PCUS moderator, dies at 95
Sara Bernice Moseley, the first woman to serve as moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States – the southern branch..
OGA’s preparations for the 221st General Assembly (2014) proceed with confidence following Detroit’s July 18 bankruptcy filing
Even as Detroit filed yesterday for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) is proceeding with confidence with preparations..
Clear as a bell: Cho urges Triennium to know, share love of Jesus Christ
“And the Neighborly Neighbor Award goes to…”
We just got done with Vacation Bible School, and I am one of those sick and twisted people who LOVE VBS!!! You’ve..
Midway ’tween GAs
Triennium participants probe the biblical theme of “I am”
Wednesday, the second day of Triennium, began with everyone gathering on Purdue University’s Memorial Mall to find and join one of 200..
Burning bushes: Youth Triennium worship begins with call to pay attention and respond to God’s presence in the world
Ironing out those ‘umms’ and ‘ahhs’: how Toastmasters can help pastors
Six years ago I was standing at General Assembly, catching up with a seminary classmate and lamenting my lack of a sermon..
The light bulb of the world
On a recent visit to the Holy Land, we were given a tour of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, one of..
What one businessman learned about success from Trappist monks
(RNS) Driving through the Spanish moss-draped gates of the Mepkin Abbey Trappist monastery in Moncks Corner, S.C., businessman August Turak felt as if he..
Triennium 2013 kicks off
2014 Detroit: What is the moderator’s agenda?
I have been to two General Assemblies, once as an alternate and once as a commissioner. Each time I have listened to..
Reflecting on peace discernment
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