SAN ANSELMO, Calif. — The award season leading up to next summer's 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) officially opened here Nov. 17 when the Committee on Theological Education named former Auburn Theological Seminary President Barbara Wheeler as winner of this year's Excellence in Theological Education Award.
This film started out as a novel, then converted to a screenplay. But it has a gritty, raw, realistic feel to it that is way beyond “once upon a time.”
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
(ENI) — The German embassy in Harare has sent a strongly-worded letter of protest to the Zimbabwe government after some of its soldiers beat up a Jesuit priest who has lived in the country for most of his life and was rushing a boy to hospital.
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.
A Response to P. Mark Achtemeier’s And Grace Will Lead Me Home Address to the Covenant Network Of Presbyterians on November 5, 2009
As disaster movies go, “2012” boasts some of the best special effects ever. And, the scientific premise even sounds plausible.
“Pirate Radio” is just a nice waltz down memory lane for Baby Boomers.
DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) -- The Georgia Baptist Convention has ended its 148-year-old relationship with First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., over the congregation's 2007 vote to hire a woman as senior pastor.
When guest preaching or lecturing, I generally begin with well wishes from The Presbyterian Outlook.
This is a story about how one thing leads to the next, especially when smart, motivated women get involved. And about how a little money and time given by ordinary people can add up to more than they ever imagined.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
(RNS) Repentant for having spent a generation bowing at the altars of church growth and political power, concerned evangelicals gathered Oct. 13-15 to search the soul of their movement and find a new way forward.
Fort Sumter was fired upon and captured by South Carolina forces the same year (1861) that James Woodrow, uncle to future president Woodrow Wilson, assumed the Perkins Professorship on Natural Science in Connection with Revelation at Columbia Seminary, then in Columbia, S.C.
The news item about scientists believing in God (August 17/24 issue of the Outlook) inspired me to download the Pew Research Center’s whole report (www.people-press.org/report/528).
Christian thinkers have long employed insights from sociology, literature, and other fields to augment their ideas of how God works in the world.
A group of friends was sitting together at a meal when one of the older men (and I’m 102 years old!) asked me a question: “Now that you have seen how Christians think in the last 100 years, what emphases would you like to see in the 21st century?”
Enough to Make God Laugh, A Pastor Resolves the Science/Religion Problem by Albert N. Wells, Booksurge.com, 2009, 193 pages, $13.99.
Fossils and Faith, Thea Nyhoff Leunk (CRC Publications, 2005). Released 2006. Order from www.faithaliveresources.org/ (Reviewed by B.A.P.)
For a religion that’s supposed to have died with its deity, Christianity seems to be having a remarkably vital post-mortem existence.
It’s tempting to give everyone a “stewardship break” this year. The Great Recession is still going on, jobs are tenuous, personal finances are tight. — not a good time to ask for money.
(ENI) — A 79-year old Irish priest, who was released unharmed one month after being kidnapped in the Philippines by a militant Islamic group, says he wants to continue serving as a missionary.
(ENI) — The election of a woman as head of Germany's Protestant churches threatens ties with the Russian Orthodox Church, a high-ranking official of the Russian church has warned.
(ENI) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged the Philippines' faith community to help defend human rights, build peace, and to strengthen democracy in their nation.
(ENI) —The World Council of Churches has urged the United States and North Korea to hold direct talks on the north Asian country's nuclear program.
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