We, the Session of Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, write in response to your initial and clarification letters of February 2 and 7.
“In many ways I readily concede some of the points Wilson Gunn makes about our letter introducing the Fellowship. … I appreciate..
In many ways I readily concede some of the points Wilson Gunn makes about our letter introducing the Fellowship. Sometimes it’s scary to think how naïve we are about the web of organizations and structures he mentions within the PCUSA, many of which I’ve never heard of before. I appreciate his positive tone and remarkable grasp of leadership, business and management principles in applying them to our denomination.
February 21, 2011
In Response to the Letters of February 2 and 7 from our brothers in the PCUSA,
We, the Session of Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, write in response to your initial and clarification letters of February 2 and 7. We are a Session of male and female, youth, young adult, adult, divorced, single, and married elected leaders of our congregation.
The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has sent to the presbyteries a host of amendments to ratify or disapprove. This report presents unbiased pro/con summaries that explain
What’s so great about camps and conference centers? In three words, they make converts.
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What do you get when you cross Vacation Bible School with summer camp? Central Virginia Presbyterians get the Camp Hanover Traveling Day Camp Program.
Birmingham (PNS)
Representatives of Christian Churches Together (CCT) — a fellowship of 36 denominations and six national organizations representing a large spectrum of Christians — has issued the first known formal clergy response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
NEW YORK (CWS) If 2010 was the year of large-scale disasters — including the devastating Haiti earthquake and wide-spread floods in Pakistan — 2011 is likely to be the year when issues of hunger become increasingly significant on the global stage, international humanitarian organization Church World Service (CWS) says in a New Year’s assessment.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) After a lengthy appeals process, the Vatican has ruled that nine Boston-area Catholic parishes should be closed despite protests from parishioners.
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If interim ministers are supposed to help congregations recover from sudden loss of a pastor, why does it take so long to find the interim?
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Church life offers many satisfactions, perhaps none quite so thrilling as entering a packed sanctuary filled with music, friends, and energy.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Jesus lately.
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Re., the vote to delete G-6.0106b from the Book of Order: “This vote will determine whether as a church we will continue..
Presbyteries are voting on many amendments. I’m writing about Amendment ‘A’ which would delete G-6.0106b from our Book of Order. For almost fifteen years this paragraph has clarified that we Presbyterians believe what the Christian church has always believed, namely, that God’s intention for us humans is “to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman (W-4.9001), or [in] chastity in singleness.”
(In December 1961, two students from the Belgian Congo studying at Union Seminary in Richmond, Va., attended the three-week pilot project called Christmas International House (CIH) at the Westminster Fellowship House at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., where I was Presbyterian Campus Minister.
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