GAMC releases list of positions impacted by budget
The General Assembly Mission Council has released adjusted numbers for the personnel decisions that accompanied last week's approval of the General Assembly Mission Council Ministry Plan and Budget for 2011-2012:
“Robin Hood” is Ridley Scott’s adaptation of the legendary medieval English archer.
At one level, leaving letters from the lovelorn stuck in the wall of a courtyard in Verona, Italy, which is supposed to represent the fictional balcony in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” is beyond pitiful.
A sixth candidate for moderator of the 219th General Assembly is likely.
(ENI) — American lawmakers are raising questions about allegations by Kenyan churches that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is funding the government-backed "yes" campaign for a constitutional referendum in the East African country.
(ENI) — Vatican critic Hans Küng has warned against "condemning the church and its priests wholesale" for the current spate of sex abuse allegations.
No, they are “essential parts of and active faith,” says Michael Jinkins in his new blog, “What high anxiety does to faith.”..
“Can you recite the Apostles’ Creed without crossing your fingers?” my friend asked.“Sure,” I answered. “I can now. Every last article.”My friend,..
Deborah F. Mullen has been named dean of the faculty/executive vice president at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., effective Oct. 1. Her appointment includes the faculty rank of associate professor of American Christianity and Black church studies.
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Today’s my birthday. Forty years young, spiritually speaking.
(RNS) As sex abuse scandals continue to roil the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI’s approval ratings have plummeted, according to a new study, with 44 percent of Americans saying he has done a “poor” job handling the issue.
(RNS) As Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens prepares to retire this summer, religious advocates are cheering his support of church-state separation and readying for the battle over his successor.
(RNS) Ruling in the case of a man who spoke with a pastor about allegations he sexually abused his daughters, the New Jersey Supreme Court said conversations with clergy are protected from disclosure if an “objectively reasonable penitent” would believe the discussions were privileged.
(RNS) Tariq Ramadan made his first public appearance in the United States on April 8 since the U.S. State Department barred entry to the controversial scholar and Islamic activist in 2004.
(RICHMOND, VA.) Preschoolers at Second Presbyterian Child Care Center have honored the memory of former student Ruby Harvey by planting a new rain garden in the north courtyard at the church.
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CALENDAR CHECK
May 31-June 14: Santa Fe, N.M.: Cross Cultural Ministries for Seminary Students & Pastors. Ghost Ranch
A recent gathering of Christian educators celebrated the 25-year partnership of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the South Central Region of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (SCRAPCE) by looking toward the future and a holistic understanding of the tasks and challenges of Christian formation in the 21st century.
Throughout much of the modern era, Christian educators, along with most modern people, assumed a linear process for Christian education starting with Biblical and theological scholars handing on their scholarship to teachers, who, in turn, effectively passed it on to students, who, ostensibly, learn and change their behavior.
It may not come as a great a shock to the Outlook to know that this reader seldom files for future reference most copies of this publication.
In an October 8, 2009, Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, Paul Krugman opines:
Presbyterian minister James Atwood knows what it’s like to be shut down on the issue of gun violence.
When a Presbyterian pastor starts to struggle, often that’s something he or she doesn’t want to broadcast.
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