RIP, Frozen Chosen
Friends, Presbyterians, people of God – I come to bury Frozen Chosen, not praise him.
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RIP ordination contestation
“How good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity.” Psalm 133:1
New decade, national mission,* and the suburban archipelago
How tragic it would be if the denomination-wide revival of enthusiasm around being the missional church were relegated to being all talk, no action!
Key to evangelism: Falling in love again
Can you believe we are now consulting calendars for 2010?
Get church right; ordain women
I’m fourteen and, playing my first game on the girls’ basketball team in high school, caught the ball and dribbled down court to the basket. Made the basket. Expected cheers, received dead silence. I looked back to the other side of the court and saw all the girls standing there watching me. The lady coach sauntered down: “We play by woman’s rules, here.” On Brooklyn streets I played by “boy’s rules.”
U.S. torture programs: never again
If we have any hope of being a light upon a hill in this new decade, Christians in our country must insure that we will never again countenance the torture of war criminals.
The Hope to be strong and courageous
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, ‘My servant Moses is dead.
What is a “Multichannel Church?”
Like many church leaders, I have been grappling with the steady decline of mainline Protestant churches over the past 45 years and trying to determine what we can do about it.
Pioneering feminist theologian Mary Daly dies at 81
(ENI/RNS)--Mary Daly, a self-described post-Christian, radical feminist theologian known for pioneering women's studies and battling administrators at Boston College, has died aged 81.
India’s minority watchdog needs teeth, says politician
BANGALORE (ENI) — A commission aimed at safeguarding the rights of religious minorities in India cannot be effective unless it is given judicial powers, says the politician who is helping to lead the watchdog body.
Move to sideline Christianity in U.K. after teacher “fired” says centre
(ENI) — Britain's Christian Legal Centre says it has hired a human rights lawyer to represent Olive Jones, a 54-year old math teacher who is being investigated by the North Somerset Council after she offered to say prayers in front of a 14-year-old student suffering from leukemia.
Copenhagen leaves vulnerable “on their own” says Kenya professor
NAIROBI (ENI) — Vulnerable communities have been left own their own to adapt to climate change or perish, with only God to count on, because of the failure of a United Nations conference in Copenhagen to agree legally-binding commitments, a Kenyan theologian and ecologist has warned.
Calls to “Resist Europe’s secularization” made at Taizé youth meeting
(ENI) — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe in a message to an ecumenical meeting that was greeted by global and regional leaders.
Irish cardinal praised for peacemaking role
(ENI)--Cardinal Cahal Daly, who led the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland during the sectarian violence that wracked the island, and who has died aged 92, has been praised as a champion for peace and justice.
2009 a year of unintended consequences
(RNS) When Pope Benedict XVI visited Africa last March, he made countless pleas on behalf of the poor and the war-weary. Yet..
The second ten or so
What a decade it’s been! Just as December 7 became a defining date for the 20th century, so, too, September 11 stands as the defining date for the new century, at least so far.
New Jersey pastor has same-gender wedding
A Presbyterian minister from New Jersey has sent a letter to her congregation and an announcement to her presbytery, telling them that she was married in October in a same-gender wedding in Massachusetts, where such marriages are legal.
Cynthia Bolbach endorsed to stand as moderator candidate
The first candidate to stand for moderator of the 2010 General Assembly has stepped forward, as National Capital Presbytery voted unanimously on Nov. 17 to endorse Cynthia Bolbach, an elder from Arlington, Va.
“Break it and distribute it,” Kenyan pastor tells conference
More than 100 people from around the country and the world gathered Nov. 2-4 in San Clemente, Calif., for the New Church Development Team Training Conference to consider and act upon the theme, “Can I Get a Witness?”
Message to church developers: Let Hal and Gus lead the way
“We absolutely need to think of church planting as the act of the whole church,” Tod Bolsinger, pastor of San Clemente Church, in San Clemente, Calif., told the New Church Development Team Training Conference, which met November 2-4 in his church.
Moderator’s Conference explores technology and church life
LOUISVILLE — There are a lot of good, solid church-going folks for whom the social media words Twitter and Facebook are not exactly dancing words.
After 9-11: Top ten religion news stories of the decade
What events and trends of the past ten years stand out above the rest? The Outlook surveyed online readers for their input, resulting in this list:
From PUP to Katrina: Top ten Presbyterian stories of the decade
PUP was a DUD. Just don’t tell anybody. And, don’t tell any fellow Presbyterians that many other highly anticipated – and dreaded – events in the past decade turned out to be duds, too.
Wide-Awake Christians
I have been rereading a book by Clarence Jordan (author of the Cotton Patch translations of the New Testament) entitled The Sermon On the Mount ( Judson Press, Revised, 1952).
Revelation: A Commentary
by Brian K. Blount. The New Testament Library. WJKP, 2009. Hb., 462 pp. $49.95.
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