LOUISVILLE, Ky. (General Assembly Mission Council) Each of the five new church developments that won 2011 Sam and Helen R. Walton Awards will receive an additional $10,000 to engage in diverse ministry of Presbyterian mission in their local communities.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky judge has dismissed a California man’s lawsuit against the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), saying the man had waited too long to file a court claim that he suffered sexual abuse at a Presbyterian-run boarding school in Africa.
When “127 Hours” came out, people immediately said, “Oh, that’s the one about the hiker guy who had to saw off his hand.”
Have you ever wondered whatever happened to those old-style Hollywood films?
There have been a lot of movies lately about teenagers with extraordinary powers, most of them imaginary, legendary, magical or extraterrestrial.
You don’t expect “Arthur” to work very well, because it’s a remake, and the original won two Oscars (very rare for a comedy), and who can replace Dudley Moore’s lovable insouciance or Liza Minnelli’s electric vivacity?
“Bridesmaids” is a genre so rare it is practically in a category by itself: female buddy-movie raunch comedy. Those who are aficionados of television’s “Saturday Night Live” will recognize veteran comediennes Kristin Wiig and Maya Rudolph.
If the words of Jesus trump all other voices, then when the words of Jesus don’t fit our preferred picture of him,..
Webinar- Jana Childers - Preaching to Rattle Tea Cups and Wake the Dead
Group will help PC(USA) determine next steps in its peacemaking witness
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — The Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry area (CPJ) and the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) have announced the selection of the Peace Discernment Steering Team.
LOUISVILLE (OGA) — This month’s column by the Moderator is a video podcast available at www.youtube.com/gradyeparsons. Below is the transcript.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (General Assembly Mission Council) Five new church
developments have been named winners of the 2011 Sam and Helen R. Walton
Awards. Each recipient church ministry will receive $40,000.
PHOENIX
Sometimes change can be messy and chaotic, and the Big Tent Christianity Conference in Phoenix Feb. 10-11 was a bit of both.
Back to the Book(s): KJV at 400: Life is the Bible. The rest is just commentary.
One need not exaggerate to claim that the publication of the King James Bible 400 years ago has influenced the English-speaking world more than all the millions of other books published before and after.
Reading news about preparations under way to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible prompted poignant memories from my own past.
The late William Albright, generally regarded as one of the deans of Old Testament archaeology, described the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) as “the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times.” For most Christians, that might seem a bit of a stretch. After all, if the scrolls are so extraordinary, why don't they have something important to say not just to academics like Albright but to people in the pews?
Scientists generally say that creationism/intelligent design is not good science. As a scientist who also claims to be a Christian, I also say that creationism is not even good theology.
Four hundred years with the King James Bible? But I’d thought it was written by the Apostle Paul!
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (ABP) A Christian relief organization won big in a man-versus-machine contest pitting a computer against two human champions on the TV game show Jeopardy!
WASHINGTON (RNS) For the third time in three years, President Obama’s proposed budget tightens limits on tax deductions for high-end charitable donors.
GENEVA (ENI) During its meeting here, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee passed judgment on the ecumenical movement’s progress on gender justice: too little.
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court has chosen not to reexamine its decision to strike down displays of the Ten Commandments in two Kentucky courthouses.
WASHINGTON (RNS) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by five Christians who argue that President Obama’s health care overhaul violates their religious freedom.
by Miroslav Volf
New York: HarperOne, March 2011. Hardcover, 336 pp., $25.99.
ISBN 978-0-06-192707-2
reviewed by Douglas A. Hicks
It is hard to imagine a more timely topic than Christians’ and Muslims’ understandings of one another and of God. It is equally difficult to identify a Christian theologian better situated than Miroslav Volf to tackle the questions he raises. In brief, this book deserves all of its hype, and I recommend it heartily to every pastor, theologian, layperson, and citizen who reads the Outlook.
by Christopher Morse
New York: T & T Clark 2010. 145 pages.
reviewed by CURRIE BURRIS
Most of us carry around in our minds either an image of heaven shaped by popular culture, pictures, images, stories or movies, or an image shaped by the modern scientific world view in which heaven is nowhere to be found. We either imagine a heaven filled with clouds, harp-playing angels and golden mansions somewhere up in the sky, or we find the notion of that kind of heaven wholly at odds with the real world.
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