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Read your own story into the Bible story, APCE told

Grand Rapids, Mich.(Special to PNS) The Bible should be read “as if God was actually talking to us,” the Association of Presbyterian Christian Educators (APCE) was told here at its annual gathering this week.

Commission calls for initiatives in racial ethnic efforts and GA agencies

DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission is calling for reviews of the denomination's top-level agencies and its racial ethnic ministry.

Janet Edwards, same-sex couple advocate fails to obtain Pittsburgh Presbytery’s endorsement

The Rev. Janet Edwards, a nationally prominent advocate for same-sex couples in a presbytery that consistently opposes gay ordination and gay marriage,..

Mid-Councils Commission calls for non-geographic presbyteries, movable affiliations

DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission has voted 15-5 to permit non-geographic, “provisional presbyteries” as part of a “designated season of reflective experimentation” in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Mid-Councils Commission lays out next steps in synod transition

DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission made a key decision last fall: it would recommend to the 2012 General Assembly that synods would no longer exist in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as councils with ecclesiastical responsibility.

Task Force encourages 20/20 Vision for Special Offerings

Louisville, Ky. The Special Offerings Advisory Task Force, commissioned by the 218th General Assembly (2008), is recommending a new vision for special offerings – $20 million in receipts by 2020. Seeking to tap the full potential of special offerings, the task force is also recommending one new offering and revisions in each of the other offerings.

‘Glory to God’ to be published in red, purple

Louisville, Ky. (PNS) The Presbyterian Publishing Corporation has released the cover design of “Glory to God,” the new Presbyterian hymnal to be published in the fall of 2013.

Disciple-makers must create space for real questions

As a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, the Rev. Pam Driesell was surprised to hear about a professor who was hard on people who asked questions.

Event to connect Christians around economic theme

Louisville (PNS) Presbyterians, along with other Christians from across the country, will gather in Washington March 23-26 for the 10th annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days, an event that mobilizes participants around a central issue through worship, education and lobbying.

Citing ‘many unknowns’ in new denomination, Orlando church, opts for EPC instead

Feeling out of alignment with the direction being taken by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a large Florida congregation has voted to leave the PC(USA) to join the more conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Ecumenical group cites increased attacks against Palestinian villages

Asira Al-Qibliya, West Bank, (ENInews) The homes at the edge of this Palestinian village are located a few hundred meters from houses in the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar. But the relationship is anything but neighborly.

Nigerian conflict mixes religion, poverty and politics

(ENInews) Christian and Muslim leaders worldwide are being urged to act together to address the violence being unleashed in northern Nigeria

that has been blamed on Boko Haram, a self-proclaimed Islamist group.

Ron Salfen, for The Presbyterian Outlook Interview with Rodrigo Garcia, director of “Albert Nobbs”

Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas

January 8, 2012

Ron Salfen: What was surprising to you about this film?

Movie Reviews

Film in review: “Red Tails”

In a way, it’s disingenuous to complain that this movie could have been made better. Of course it could.

Movie Reviews

Film in review: “Haywire”

Gina Carano has developed an interesting pathway to Hollywood: through being a professional fighter. And a good one. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s good-looking, in a girl-next-door, slightly hard-edged but still a little vulnerable kind of way. You might even enjoy a lunch date with her. You just wouldn’t want her after you.

Movie Reviews

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

It was a risk, casting an unknown in the primary role.

News from other sources (news links from all different kinds of sources)

Coming soon: News from other sources (news links from all different kinds of sources)

“Why I’m staying … an open letter to my friends in the PC(USA)”

Evangelical Tod Bolsinger, chair of the Mid-Councils Commission shared his heart in anticipation of the Fellowship of Presbyterians conference, held recently in Orlando, Fla.

“Like many who will gather in Orlando, I share many concerns about the state of our denomination. But,

Kashmir Shariah court order targets Christians

(ENInews) Churches in India have decried the verdict of an Islamic court in Kashmir that ordered the expulsion of Christians, including a Protestant pastor and a Dutch Catholic missionary, and recommended government control of Christian schools.