LOUISVILLE — The Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) “remains poorly understood and supported by much of the church, and a source of controversy within it,” a study group considering the future of the office has reported.
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) should add the Belhar Confession, written by Christians in South Africa on the themes of reconciliation and repentance, to The Book of Confessions.
Police officers. We drive past them on the street, hoping we are not violating the speed limit.
Thirty-five years ago, on a New Year’s holiday from my divinity studies at St. Andrews, I made a pilgrimage to Geneva.
Saul, the son of Kish, was the kind of a young man who smiles out at you from catalogue covers.
As I opened “My Pastoral Record” I first turned to the section listing baptisms. There it was, my first baptism, November 13, 1977.
Now here’s an interesting piece of theology.
By Louis B. Weeks Alban, 2009. Pb.,170 pp. $18.
Pastor Appreciation
In the gospels it seems as if Jesus saw blindness everywhere he looked. And time and again, we are told, he healed sightless people.
Social networking tools are all the rage, but do they hold promise for faith communities?
New movie reviews by Ronald Salfen,
It doesn’t sound very interesting: guy’s wife dies, he finds himself raising their six-year-old son.
Is it possible to stage a horror comedy?
What, a serious movie about women in a roller derby?
Telling the truth is a hard thing to do. The preliminary report of the Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage (S.C.) tells the truth with stunning, spectacular clarity.
LOUISVILLE – The special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Unions and Christian Marriage unanimously approved on September 17 a draft of its report to the 2010 General Assembly – minus any recommendations.
APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VA. — The murdered body of Mark Niederbrock, 50, pastor of Walker’s Presbyterian Church in Hixburg, Va., was found on September 18, along with three other bodies.
LOUISVILLE — Fans of Westminster John Knox Press’ “Feasting on the Word” series can now to take a bite out of the latest installment. The sixth volume was released Oct. 1.
Lewis S. Mudge, a scholar and theologian whose breadth of interests and expertise enriched virtually every corner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the global ecumenical movement, died in his sleep Sept. 11 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He would have turned 80 on Oct. 22.
A steep membership decline. A state of theological impasse. A dysfunctional debate over ordination. Congregations leaving the denomination, splintering our fragile unity. With these realities in mind, people ask me if the Presbyterian Church has a future.
Transylvania Presbytery’s preparation for the vote on “New Amendment B” offered seven regional gatherings that included ten-minute presentations by an advocate of each position.
Some decades ago philosopher Michael Polanyi said that in order to make a critique, one must stand on certain assumptions as the basis for that critique.
For all the talk of changing the church, improving the church, and shifting the paradigm of the church, most leaders and members do not want the church to be any different than it is right now. Most people are generally content with the status quo.
On Reformation Sunday this year (October 25) many of us will happily sing Luther’s famous hymn, “A Mighty Fortress.”
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