LOUISVILLE. A General Assembly Middle East study group approved in January recommendations that include asking that the two years from 2010 to 2012 be “a time of Presbyterian prayer and action for the Middle East.”
Words matter. Perhaps that’s why we spend so much time arguing over them, debating them, and, at some point, attempting to concretize them.
University of California Press, 2009. Hb., 360 pp. $26.95.
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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy worked feverishly at its late January meeting on a half-dozen reports it is preparing for the upcoming 219th General Assembly later this year in Minneapolis.
(RNS) Starbucks, Chili’s, and bars are better places than church to meet new friends, according to a new survey.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A senior Vatican official has called for “an ecumenical catechism” setting forth the common beliefs of the Catholic and major Protestant churches.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Nearly half of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) members (43 percent) are age 65 or older and a larger percentage of pastors than ever (27 percent) are women.
The Presbytery of Santa Barbara has voted to recommend an overture to the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), asking for the formation of a non-geographic synod “to preserve the unity of the PC(USA) without violating the conscience of its members.”
(ABP) Two Baptist churches within three miles of each other burned Feb. 8, 9 and 10 in a rash of suspicious church fires in East Texas since Jan. 1.
(PNS) The Kent Church (Ohio) in Eastminster Presbytery broke ground in February on a new living and learning community to house 320 students on church property.
(ENI ) Christian leaders around the world have condemned the arrest in the Philippines of a church official and other health workers in the southeast Asian country, and say they are worried about reports of torture being inflicted on those held.
Louisville, Westminster/John Knox Press, 2010, pp. 415.
Washington, D.C. NCC News Service -- The ninth annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days opened March 19 with a call to confess that God is at work for the world's transformation in the direction of justice and peace.
The Synod Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies has issued a stay of enforcement in a case involving Scott D. Anderson, a gay man who lives in a committed relationship with a partner and who has been approved for ordination by John Knox Presbytery.
Presbyterians who are wondering how they can help with earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti are being encouraged to provide funds for seeds – because having more seeds available quickly for the spring planting season could make a big difference in meeting hunger needs in Haiti in the months to come.
A new lawsuit was filed yesterday (March 15) in Greenville, S.C., against the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church by two Erskine College trustees and the executive committee of the Erskine Alumni Association.
Erskine College/Seminary in Due West, S.C., has sued the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church over its removal last week of nearly half the members of its board of trustees, according to The Greenville News, Greenville, S.C.
The final pieces of the 150-page report of the Middle East Study Group to the General Assembly have now been released – including the group’s 30 recommendations.
(ENI) — South African theologian Steve de Gruchy, who died in a river accident near the Drakensberg mountains, has been hailed as a pioneer in church activism, economic and ecological justice.
The new director of public witness at the Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be J. Herbert Nelson II, a Presbyterian pastor from Memphis.
For further reading:
Blankenhorn, David. The Future of Marriage. Encounter Books, 2007.
A guest commentary by Kazimierz Bern
Gay marriage will not undermine families or the institution of marriage.
Is it a needed course correction for Erskine College and Theological Seminary in Due West, S.C. – essential for its theological integrity and fulfillment of its Christian mission?
The Middle East Study Group has released another part of its report – this time, with sections relating to theological views.
“How can two walk together unless they be agreed?” Amos’ question (3:3-KJV) seems rhetorical, the answer self-evident. But his question begs another: to what degree must the two agree?
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