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Cross-cultural mission group announces its closure
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) The Association of Presbyterians for Cross-Cultural Mission (APCCM) ― founded in 1984 to give Presbyterian mission workers a larger voice in post-reunion conversations about global mission in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ― has ceased operations, effective Sept. 1.
PPC announces new hymnal title, colors, prices
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) The new Presbyterian hymnal, to be published in the fall of 2013, has a title.
Presbyterians’ interfaith engagement rate has grown since 9/11
LOUISVILLE (General Assembly Mission Council) In the decade since the September 11 attacks exposed fissures in America’s patchwork of religions, the number of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations involved in activities with other faiths has increased. One-quarter of congregations, up from 16 percent, are now involved.
…Always being reformed
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Office of the General Assembly) Last month I attended the Fellowship of Presbyterians gathering in Minneapolis. I think it’s fair to say that the organizers of the event are driven by concerns over the effect of the new ordination standard in the Book of Order – G-2.0101b – as well as by how the church in general can proclaim the gospel both effectively and with integrity in the 21st century. With nearly 2,000 in attendance, obviously the issues and concerns raised by the organizers struck a chord in many.
Webinar: Preaching and Worship-leading through Advent
In recession-hit Hungary, churches take over state schools
Warsaw, Poland (ENI) Local government officials in Hungary are handing state-owned schools over to churches, unable to afford their upkeep during the economic recession, according to church sources.
Hymn for Blessing of the Animals services
O God, Your Creatures Fill the Earth("I Sing the Mighty Power of God")Lyrics by Carolyn GilletteO God, your creatures fill the earth..
NEXT Church leaders call February gathering to discern God’s spirit
The organizers of the NEXT Church group – Presbyterians who are involved in conversations about the future of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – have written an open letter to the church, in the wake of the Fellowship of Presbyterians recent gathering in Minneapolis on Aug. 25-26.
Crazy Presidents
What crazy person would accept the call to be president of a Presbyterian seminary in this present, precarious environment?
John Stott Dies
John Stott, an English evangelical who helped introduce the world to the global scope of the Christian movement and is considered one of the most influential evangelicals of his generation, died July 27 in Lingfield, Surrey, England.
HOW CAN SEMINARIES BETTER SERVE THEIR STUDENTS — AND THE CHURCH?
Many small Presbyterian congregations struggle to afford trained pastoral leadership. And many gifted students graduate from seminary, excited to be serving in ministry — and are frustrated by the difficulty of finding a first call to serve a congregation.
RISING TO THE FIRST-CALL CHALLENGE
You’ve mastered Greek parsing, decoded Hebrew, passed your ordination exams and now are dreaming in the confusing acronymic language that is seeking a first call: With the approval of my CPM, I’m self-referring my PIF to the PNC after reading their CIF on the CLC … .
Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
by Bart Ehrman
Harper One. 320 pages
REVIEWED BY JOSEPH DELAHAUNT
Bart Ehrman has once again written a sprightly, challenging and informative
volume. Some of his previous books too often offer a rehash of well-known
scholarly conclusions, served up in an exaggerated fashion that is often
misleading.
Worship Matters
by Jane Rogers Vann
Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 152 pages
REVIEWED BY JUDITH FULP-EICKSTAEDT
“People of faith are hungry for encounters with God in their congregations and for ways more thoroughly to absorb and be changed by those encounters. It is for these congregations that I write.”
Ghana’s Presbyterian church may follow Mexico’s in severing ties with PC(USA) over gay ordination
A church in Africa may have become be the second Presbyterian denomination outside the United States to end its partnership with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in response to the U.S. church’s decision to allow the ordination of sexually active gays and lesbians.
Denominational sing-along kicks off
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (PNS) Presbyterians are invited to join their voices in a denominational sing-along for the next few months.
Church leaders call for prayer and support following Hurricane Irene
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Office of the General Assembly) Cynthia Bolbach, moderator of the 219th General Assembly (2010), Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, and Linda Valentine, Executive Director of the General Assembly Mission Council, have released a call to prayer for all those impacted by Hurricane Irene:
Stated clerk condemns bombing in Nigeria, calls for dialogue, discussion, diplomacy
LOUISVILLE, Ky (PNS) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons has condemned the Aug. 26 terrorist attack on the United Nations compound in Abuja, Nigeria, that killed or injured a number of people.
Thai church leaders seek volunteer English teachers
Louisville, Ky. (PNS) The Church of Christ in Thailand is hoping to recruit several hundred native English speakers to serve as volunteer teachers in its 25 schools and eight hospitals, said two leaders of the church Aug. 23.
Nigerian faith leaders seek end to violence
Nairobi, Kenya (ENI) As the smoke dies out at the bombed United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, faith leaders are seeking urgent government action to end a recurrent and bloody cycle of religious violence in Africa's most populous nation.
Films in review: “Our Idiot Brother” and “Colombiana”
Both films center around a character whose main attribute is living in her/his own world, regardless of what everyone else values.
On the gathering of the Fellowship of Presbyterians: a brief summary
On Aug. 25-26, about 1,900 people came to Minneapolis to learn more about what the Fellowship of Presbyterians is proposing, and to help sort through their own decisions about whether to stay in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) or to leave.
Those attending included pastors and elders, as well as some presbytery and synod executives and national leaders of the denomination. While no details were released on demographic factors such as age, race, and gender, the crowd included people from all 50 states and 3 countries beyond the U.S., and appeared to be predominantly white and male. The list of speakers was somewhat more diverse.
This was a meeting primarily for discussion of ideas – not for voting on a particular course of action. Here are some of the highlights:
Film in review: “The Help”
This is the kind of movie that invokes every viewer’s experience with racism. So this review will reflect a more personal perspective than normally expected, since emotional detachment is virtually impossible, if not downright dishonest.
Film in review: “Cowboys and Aliens”
Wow, what do you make of a film like this, which delivers exactly what it promises and with a straight face? Just go with it? Make fun of it? Consider it a self-parody? An unwitting farce? Hollywood camp? Or do we make this kind of adventure/sci-fi/CGI film just because we can?
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