WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI/RNS) -- Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the U.S. Episcopal (Anglican) Church has forcefully defended her church's embrace of gays and lesbians, and firmly rejected efforts to centralize power or police uniformity in the Anglican Communion.
JERUSALEM (ENI) -- Religion must take on a more positive role in peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, especially in light of the deteriorating situation there, faith leaders have said.
NICOSIA (ENI) -- Pope Benedict XVI, the first Roman pontiff to visit Cyprus, arrived June 4 on the Mediterranean island evangelized 2,000 years ago by the apostle Paul, and said that he wants to strengthen the position of Christians in the Middle East.
HONG KONG (ENI) -- Asian human rights advocacy groups say the recent stoning to death of an Indian couple after one of them was deemed to have
married someone from the lowest caste is a is a "grim reminder" of how strong the caste system still is in the world's second-most populous nation.
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Michael Jinkins will begin serving as the ninth president of Louisville Seminary, September 1, 2010. Dr. Jinkins said the future of the Seminary will require everyone's participation at the table. Photo by Michael Whitman[/caption]LOUISVILLE -- The Board of Trustees of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has called Michael Jinkins as its ninth President.
He will succeed Dean K. Thompson, who has served as president since 2004. Jinkins will begin his duties on September 1.
“Of the many diverse and qualified candidates we considered and engaged in prayerful conversation and discernment, Dr. Jinkins most envisioned our mission to educate men and women to participate in the redemptive ministry of Jesus Christ in the world,” said Trustee Conrad Sharps, of Birmingham, Ala., who served as the search committee chair. The committee was comprised of representatives from the Board of Trustees, faculty, administration, staff, alumni association, and student body.
Jinkins said he felt overwhelmed with emotion and thanked the Trustees and members of the campus community for entrusting him with the leadership of Louisville Seminary, adding that the future of the Seminary “will require everyone’s participation at the table.”
“Please Give” is a quirky little story (written and directed by Nicole Holofcener) about a couple of families living in apartments next to each other, somewhere in New York City.
There’s no fool like an old fool. Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas) is a mature single man who exudes confidence and success; but going to the doctor and hearing the grim diagnosis bursts his invincible bubble. In fact, it made something important snap within him.
Sometimes a film will be notable for its brilliant new technology, like “Avatar.”
“Raunch” comedy has become a genre all its own, with a life of its own. But after you do the scatological language, the juvenile sexual histrionics, the casual nudity, and the even-more-casual drugs, then what? Is it time now to have an actual story?
“Marmaduke” is based on a comic strip, so that tells you something about the seriousness of this venture.
EDINBURGH (ENI) -- The events of 1989, when people in Eastern Europe took their faith on to the streets and challenged communist regimes, marked a turning point in seeing the Church as a global community of believers, a world mission conference in Edinburgh has heard.
EDINBURGH (ENI) -- Being a witness for Christianity requires both evangelism and a prophetic commitment to the will of Jesus for justice, peace, and the care of creation, says World Council of Churches General Secretary Olav Fyske Tveit.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has issued the following statement in the wake of the Israeli interception of a convoy of ships on its way to Gaza with humanitarian aid:
(ENI) -- The president of the Catholic bishops' conference in Turkey, Italian-born Bishop Luigi Padovese, has been stabbed to death in Iskenderun in southern Turkey.
(ENI) -- Irja Askola has become the first woman to be elected as a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, a step described as a "milestone" by the general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation.
(ENI) -- Two international church-backed humanitarian organizations that operate in Afghanistan have been stopped from doing their work while officials investigate allegations that they have been engaging in proselytizing, which they strongly deny.
(ENI) -- A member of the German parliament who was on the ferry Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli special forces has called on the World Council of Churches and other church organizations to get more actively involved in lifting the Gaza blockade.
The report going to the General Assembly cuts to the quick. It affirms the denomination’s determination to be faithful to the teachings of Scripture and the Reformed tradition, but it admits that the effort to define what constitutes such faithfulness “has created significant debates among us.” It laments, “These debates (have) both clouded understanding of our mission and inhibited cooperative participation in it.”
Maggie Lauterer, (firstburnsville.org/) a journalist-turned-minister, has become the third candidate endorsed to stand as moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Roger Dermody, pastor of Bel Air Church in Los Angeles, Calif., has accepted the post of deputy executive director for mission of the General Assembly Mission Council, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
(ENI) The U.S. National Council of Churches and a Roman Catholic health association agree that a directive by President Barack Obama granting same-sex partners the legal right to visit their loved ones in the hospital is an affirmation of people’s human rights.
PHOENIX (PNS) The April 15-17 “Crossing Borders, Encountering God” conference — co-sponsored by the Synods of the Sun and Southwest of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Presbyteries of Noroeste and Israel of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico — brought together close to 200 participants to consider border relations between the two countries and churches.
(RNS) The National Collegiate Athletic Association has banned the use of eye black with messages — a practice prominently used by former University of Florida star quarterback Tim Tebow to display Bible verses.
KATMANDU (ENI) Buddhist monks and Christian organizations are working with thousands of official rescue workers in China’s northwestern Qinghai province to rescue people missing still after a series of earthquakes killed almost 800 people.
Ovt 087 » Pby of San Fernando: Amend G-3.0103 and G-3.0111 of the New Form of Government to require committees of representation.
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