LOUISVILLE – With another round of layoffs looming for the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – making this the sixth time the PC(USA) has reduced its national staff since 2002 – denominational leaders have had significant experience blending bleak numbers with a positive twist.
Presbyterians so far have given $9.57 million to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for relief work in Haiti following the earthquake in January.
Cape Town (ENI) — The World Cup soccer tournament is due to kick-off on June 11 in South Africa and the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, has warned that sex trafficking will increase in the country during the event.
Rob Moreland, Dale Martin, and Kelly Buell, all members of PDA's national response team, were busy discussing how to tackle this disaster as news came in that 43 counties in Tennessee are now officially disaster areas.
LOUISVILLE – The hard work is still ahead – later this week, the General Assembly Mission Council will vote on the mission budgets for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for 2011 and 2012, including layoffs expected to total about 45 employees from the denomination’s national staff.
GENEVA (ENI) — The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has joined peers in the Middle East in expressing concerns about the escalating rate of violence against Christians in northern Iraq, following attacks on buses carrying Christians in Mosul, in which a shopkeeper was killed.
Cynthia Campbell, the president of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago for the past 15 years, has announced that she will retire by the end of 2011.
DUE WEST, S.C. — The legal maneuverings over governance of Erskine College and Seminary continue as attorneys responded to the recent appeal by the General Synod of Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of a preliminary injunction ordered last month by a circuit court judge.
LOUISVILLE — A Philadelphia pastor, James A. Belle, is the fifth candidate for moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
LOUISVILLE - No way around it: this will be a painful week for the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
LOUISVILLE — In the five and a half years since its creation, the Colombia Accompaniment Program has been ever-evolving, adapting as organizers..
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Harpeth Presbyterian Church was crawling with members May 3, cleaning up after the nearby Harpeth River overflowed its banks Saturday and Sunday, flooding this historic church in Brentwood, Tenn.
Worship with a North Korean house church
PYONGYANG — Shoes are removed before entering the modest fourth-floor apartment in an otherwise drab high-rise in this North Korean capital city. The bare-wood living room floor is lined with simple straw mats.
Master seamstress sews together details of 219th General Assembly
MINNEAPOLIS – "The opening service July 4 at the Minneapolis Convention Center will be 8,000 worshippers strong," said the Rev. Paula Sanders, and will demonstrate "the best of being Presbyterian — a liturgically correct service that is creative and inclusive."
NASHVILLE — After the historic flooding here last weekend, clean-up has begun.
A fourth candidate – Eric Nielsen, a pastor from Wisconsin – has been endorsed to stand for moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The Presbytery of Northern Waters, meeting May 6, unanimously endorsed Nielsen, who is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Eau Claire, Wis., a congregation of about 250 members.
reviewed by Ronald P. Salfen
Yes, “Death At A Funeral” is a literal re-make of a British film released only three years ago. But as one local promoter put it, “No, it’s not the same movie, because now you have black people on the screen.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI/RNS) — The U.S. government is not doing enough to protect religious freedoms abroad, the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has said in its annual report to Congress and the White House.
FIVE TUESDAYS IN JUNE:
PRE-GA BRIEFINGS/WEBINARS
Top experts on the “hot” topics address your questions.
JUNE 1
Israel - Palestine
Ron Shive (Pro) & John Wimberly (Con)
JUNE 8
New Form of Government
Dan Williams (Pro) & Gale Watkins (Con)
JUNE 15
Ordination Standards (Fidelity/Chastity)
Tricia Dykers-Koenig (change)
& Jerry Andrews (retain)
A memorial service will be held on May 2 in Santa Fe, N.M., for Donald S. Marsh, 86, who, with his companion and collaborator of 50 years Richard Avery, provided the soundtrack to a generation of Presbyterian camp- and conference-goers. He died at Casa Real Health Center in Santa Fe on April 10.
LOUISVILLE — Rebecca Barnes-Davies, a student at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and consultant for environmental and social justice ministries for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has been named winner of the Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG) 2010 Angell Award for the best first book by a Presbyterian author.
DUE WEST, S.C. — The Executive Committee of the Erskine College and Seminary Board of Trustees is sending a message of “resolution and reconciliation” to the general synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
If ever I were totally convinced and totally unconvinced, it’s right here and right now: on the matter of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) speaking out regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Andrew J. Young, former U.S. congressman, Ambassador to the United Nations, Atlanta mayor, and top aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke March 22 at Montreat (N.C.) Conference Center on the topic, “Faith and Civil Rights.”
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on March 8 to decide whether the father of a fallen soldier can sue protesters picketing at his son’s funeral with signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
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