Kansas City (RNS) — Usually known for serving 24/7 breakfasts, the International House of Pancakes has instead served a lawsuit to the International House of Prayer, a Missouri church, for trademark infringement.
Washington, D.C. (RNS) —The number of people in poverty in America increased to its highest recorded point last year, and the poverty rate has risen to its highest level since 1994.
Vatican City (RNS) — Mother Mary MacKillop, a 19th-century Australian nun who was canonized on Oct. 17, is being touted by some Catholics as the Patron Saint of Whistleblowers.
Jerusalem (RNS) — Ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders have removed barriers separating men and women from a Jerusalem street after Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that the tall screens were illegal.
Why can’t American Christians be more like Koreans? Why can’t they honor and learn from their older adult family members the way the Koreans do?
When you consider moving to a Multichannel Church operation — going beyond Sunday morning to add off-site, online, and other weekday ministries — you can expect at least six objections.
by Derek Maul; Nashville: Upper Room Books, 2009.
reviewed by Judith Fulp-Eickstead
Derek Maul, award-winning columnist for the Tampa Tribune, issues an invitation to anyone looking for a deeper level of commitment to Jesus Christ in a culture where “doing just enough to get by defines life for too many people and in too many contexts” (p. 17).
"Conviction” is a true story, well told, which will bring this movie a lot of attention, both at the box office and at the Oscars.
This explains a lot. Those of us who are “of a certain age,” that is, Baby Boomers, all witnessed the incredible musical phenomenon of The Beatles.
"The needs of the world for reconciliation with God, with one another, and with nature are too big for a divided church."
Greetings from University of the Ozarks in sunny, downtown Clarksville, Ark.
A friend and I were having lunch at a fabled restaurant in New York's Grand Central Terminal, when the eatery’s famous owner came out of the kitchen, trailed by two acolytes, and took an adjacent table.
The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
by Janet Soskice
Alfred B. Knopf. New York. 2009, 366 pages.
reviewed by Leslie A. Klingensmith
by David Bentley Hart
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 272 pp., $28.00.
reviewed by Richard R. Crocker
LOUISVILLE — On Oct. 19. Isaac Monah makes his second trip home to rural Liberia since he fled the war-torn country in the mid-1980s and subsequently emigrated to the U.S. in 2002.
Editor's note: This is a response to the post-General Assembly Outlook article, " Assembly approves removal of fidelity, chastity; presbyteries to vote..
We all know how this movie is going to end before we walk into the theater.
Woody Allen’s signature trademark is an ensemble of articulate, cosmopolitan urban adults who make a shipwreck of their lives by allowing themselves to be controlled by whatever passing passion looks irresistible.
The Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies has ruled that John Knox Presbytery did not commit irregularities when it voted in February 2010 to approve for ordination Scott Anderson, a gay man in a long-term committed relationship.
An Independent Abuse Review Panel investigating sexual and physical abuse involving the children of Presbyterian missionaries serving in Africa and Asia has publicly named six people it determined had abused children.
LOUISVILLE — An Independent Abuse Review Panel investigating reports of physical and sexual abuse in church boarding schools has documented 30 cases of abuse from 1950 to 1990.
LOUISVILLE, KY.—Leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC) today (Oct. 8) apologized to 30 people who were physically or sexually abused between 1950 and 1990 in overseas mission situations, many of which were schools or boarding facilities.
HONG KONG (ENI) — Hong Kong Christian leaders have urged the government in Beijing to release 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, who was honored for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."
The Supreme Court has lost its last Protestant member, The Hon. John Paul Stevens. At his retirement the Court also lost one..
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Mission Council moved briskly through its business today (Oct. 8) – leaving more time for small-group discussion on matters not up for a vote. Here is some of what the council considered.
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