MOSCOW (ENI) -— Comments by a senior official of the Russian Orthodox Church condemning Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, accusing him of genocide, shortly before a European security forum equated the crimes of Stalin and Hitler, have stirred heated debate in the Russian media and blogosphere.
(ENI) — A series of attacks on Iraq's Christian community in July were deliberately coordinated, but the government is not paying sufficient attention to them and they have received scant media attention, says the World Student Christian Federation.
A study group considering the future of the Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has reached some conclusions – including calling the office a “central and important instrument” through which Presbyterians reflect their faith on matters of public policy.
It’s good to do good (proper grammar notwithstanding). It’s great to give. But why do folks do good? What motivates good folks to give?
Some folks consider tentmaking and think, Part time. Not enough money. Not enough status.
When David Vellenga graduated from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1971, he went straight into full-time pastoral work, following what is for many the standard path.
In the July 13 edition of the Outlook we announced that the Board of Directors at Columbia Theological Seminary had voted unanimously to elect Steve Hayner, the Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth to serve as its ninth president, succeeding Laura Mendenhall. That announcement has generated many questions we have directed to Dr. Hayner to address.
What exactly does it mean for the Presbyterian News Service to have “editorial freedom?”
For the most part, Christians – despite all the teachings in the Bible about caring for the least among us – do not give generously.
Most Protestants don’t know a lot about the Apocrypha, but there are some good texts in it for some creative preaching.
Since early grade school we have been taught that multiple fractions can be related to one another by determining the lowest common denominator.
It wasn’t the item on the agenda I’d mentally marked as controversial.
Editor’s note: Last fall the Outlook published a three-part series of op-ed essays by Erwin C. Barron that elevated the role of experience in Biblical interpretation.
by John Dannemiller and Irving Stubbs. Credo House, 2009. Pb., 138 pp. $12.99.
Over the years, I’ve heard anti-Jewish trash-talk from Protestant pulpits. Sometimes I recognized it for what it was — such as when I heard a preacher say Jews missed the boat 2,000 years ago and are beyond God’s grace. Sometimes I didn’t.
In a recent Church Wellness Project, the Metrics team grasped the concept of measuring outcomes and saw the importance of doing so.
(ENI/RNS) — A U.S. Episcopal (Anglican) priest who has practiced Zen meditation and espoused unconventional ideas about Christianity has lost his bid to become a bishop in Michigan, the church has announced.
(ENI) — At his most pointed and funny, the Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, best known as Rev. Ike, could turn a Biblical phrase on its head.
(ENI)--Organizers of an exhibition in Glasgow that encouraged society's marginalized to write comments in the margins of a Bible have now placed the sacred book behind a transparent screen to prevent offensive messages being written on it.
NEW WILMINGTON, PA — (PNS) In an amphitheater by a placid lake on the Westminster College campus, nearly 2,000 people were at prayer last week -- as others have been every summer since 1906 -- about how God might call them to preach the Christian gospel to people of another culture.
TORONTO (ENI) — A Canadian newspaper has issued an unusual, front-page apology to the country's prime minister, Stephen Harper, just weeks after it reported he was in hot water after taking — and pocketing — a communion wafer at a Roman Catholic funeral.
Sometimes we are shocked when we get a good dose of reality, when we see what is really happening around us and realize it’s not what we thought it was at all.
(ENI/RNS) — The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has suggested that the U.S. Episcopal (Anglican) Church may have to accept a secondary role in the worldwide Anglican Communion after voting to allow gay bishops and blessings for same-sex unions.
reprinted with permission from One in the Spirit
After a more than three hour congregational meeting on a sunny and warm Southern California Sunday, Rev. Richard Kannwischer was called to be the next pastor-head-of-staff of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California.
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