Presbyteries are well into the process of deliberating and voting on whether to ratify the vote of the 2010 General Assembly to add the Belhar Confession to PC(USA)’s The Book of Confessions. Should this document, written to confront the policy of apartheid in South Africa, be made a permanent expression of the faith for American Presbyterians?
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Over the last several months in these Outlook pages, people have been rethinking church. They’ve talked about the need to prevent clergy burnout and have offered various theological definitions of church.
When loved ones die, family and friends try to comfort those hurt the most by death. Frequently the response the survivor gets is a halting, “So sorry for your loss.”
The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader
by Mark Pierson
Sparkhouse Press, November 2010. 240 pages.
reviewed by DEBRA AVERY
Don’t read this book if you are looking for the next big thing in worship that guarantees growth in attendance, or if you are looking for liturgies and songs to plug into your standard order of worship.
Unsqueezed: Springing Free
from Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, Highlights, and Stilettos
by Margot Starbuck
InterVarsity Press. 2010. 229 pages
reviewed by Leslie Klingensmith
Pull up a comfy chair, brew a pot of tea and sit down with your most candid and hilarious girlfriend to kibbitz about the ways that we women buy into the cultural stereotypes of beauty.
“Over the centuries, the issue of responsibility for Jesus' death has served as a basis for the blanket persecution of Jews -- a notion the pope repudiates.
Presbyterian Outlook: Not many movies include high school wrestling. Was this based on any personal experience?
“Mars Needs Moms” is one of those kid-friendly animated films that adults will purchase for their children and grandchildren to watch, but will find something else to do themselves. There’s nothing really objectionable—the story line is creative, and the screenplay is functional enough—but it just isn’t magical.
“Limitless” is the kind of adult film that gets audiences rooting for a guy who takes drugs. Only this isn’t just your run-of-the-mill narcotic; this is the magic pill that will make you super-alert, super-smart, and well, maybe more than a little hyper.
We seem to never tire of movies about 19th century England. We re-make “Jane Eyre” every decade or so, perhaps because of its purity of romantic longing: no real fulfillment, and no sex, please, we’re British.
Ah, a meaty role for Matthew McConaughey. And he knows what to do with it. He plays Mick Haller, a defense attorney who operates from the back of his Lincoln Town Car, with uniformed chauffeur.
As a big sports fan, I have been watching how the NCAA is working to maintain unity in the ever changing landscape of Division I athletics. It has made me wonder if the PCUSA should discuss something similar. Consider the following changes that will be made this coming fall in college sports:
Tokyo, 18 March (ENInews)--Churches are among those who keep searching for missing people, including clergy, members and their families, as the death toll after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami has reached the highest in the history of natural disasters in postwar Japan.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) In February, the General Assembly’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) committee concluded engagement efforts with Time Warner that the church called successful.
Where is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) headed?
I wish I knew.
The moderator’s March column
General Assembly Mission Council
Where is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) headed?
I wish I knew.
LOUISVILLE, KY. (PNS) After years of downsizings and organizational changes, the office of Collegiate Ministries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is back — and a newly assembled task force is working to discern the state and future of collegiate ministry within the church.
NEW YORK (NCC) As news from earthquake-stricken Japan and Tsunami-devastated coastal areas worsens, U.S. churches and religious groups are pulling out all the stops to assess how they can help.
There is much that I can agree with in what Prof. Arlo Duba says in the two articles posted in the Outlook. There is great emphasis in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the NT as a whole on inclusiveness…
There is much that I can agree with in what Prof. Arlo Duba says in the two articles posted in the Outlook.
TOKYO (ENI) Churches are suffering after an 8.9-magnitude
earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on 11 March.
What does a preacher or writer do when the well runs dry? For well over a month my
well has been dry as a bone. I have nothing to say.
Philadelphia (BOP) The chairman of a committee studying the issue of benefits for the same-sex partners of PC(USA) employees has said the panel’s deliberations will take more time than expected.
WARSAW, POLAND (ENI) The head of Ethiopia's Lutheran church has welcomed government efforts to curb a spate of attacks on Christians in the country, but warned that political extremists were attempting to incite violence between religious communities.
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