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Book review: Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese
Alfred A. Knopf. 560 pages.

There are many good books. The number of great books is drastically fewer, but when a reader finds one, we sense within a chapter or two that the book we hold in our hands is something special.

Congregation rallies after vandals attack

MADISON, S.D. (Special to PNS) At 6:45 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, Charlie Richardson, building and grounds supervisor of First Presbyterian Church in Madison, S.D., was awakened by a phone call from local police. The church had been broken into overnight. The vandals stole nothing, but left a swath of destruction.

Three tapped for Presbyterian Welcome awards

NEW YORK – Presbyterian Welcome, a Manhattan-based ministry that works to promote tolerance, will present its 2011 Faithful Servant Awards to three people who have worked to dismantle barriers based on sexual identity within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

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