Freshly graduated from a Presbyterian seminary, the young pastor dreamed of creating a retreat center, a place of prayer for a community of faith. Touched by his experience with the Taizé community, he yearned to do graduate study in Europe in preparation for this dream.
Sometimes, in trying to figure out what a new thing means in the world, people look to the past for explanations.
Mark Achtemeier, an evangelical theology professor from Iowa, is in many ways an unlikely candidate for radical change. He’s a white, middle-aged Presbyterian father and husband who grew up in the church, the son of Biblical scholars.
By a very close margin, San Francisco Presbytery voted Nov. 10 to permit the ordination of Lisa Larges, a lesbian who has sought for more than 20 years to become a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
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Perhaps more than any other figure in Scripture, Mary has held the expectations and norms of humanity with a complicated tenacity.
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
The dawn from on high will break upon us … to guide us in the way of peace (Luke 1:78-79).
So how will you spend Christmas afternoon? The one thing I don’t miss now that I’m no longer serving as a congregation’s pastor, is the way I used to spend Christmas afternoons.
GENEVA (ENI) — The life of Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, an English Presbyterian instrumental in the creation of the united Church of South India and who played a key role in the World Council of Churches, is being commemorated 100 years after his birth.
Measuring outcomes needn’t be any more difficult for a church than for, say, a corporation.
Statistics published by Research Services of the General Assembly Council in 2006 confirm what most of us already suspected.
John Went Out to Preach God’s Word
A Hymn for the Third Sunday of Advent
Year C – December 13, 2009
As the double holidays surround us, the woe language in our country rises to a new level.
Tom Taylor, deputy executive director for mission for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the Presbyterian Foundation.
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Remember that book How to Win Friends and Influence People? Let’s just say that Duke University ethicist Stanley Hauerwas has been hugely influential, but that doesn’t mean his salty tongue has made him a lot of friends along the way.
So how will you spend Christmas afternoon? The one thing I don’t miss now that I’m no longer serving as a congregation’s pastor, is the way I used to spend Christmas afternoons.
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Remember that book How to Win Friends and Influence People? Let’s just say that Duke University ethicist Stanley Hauerwas has been hugely influential, but that doesn’t mean his salty tongue has made him a lot of friends along the way.
As the writer of a weekly editorial, I often can predict which editorials will generate a flurry of damning letters to the..
The Pulitzer-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy is now faithfully converted to the big screen. The problem is, it’s just as successful as the book in being really depressing.
(ENI) — A Roman Catholic theologian suspended as a priest after conducting a Communion service at a Protestant church in Berlin says attempts to be reinstated have been unsuccessful and that he sees no basis for dialogue with his bishop.
Many a story, many a poem, many a carol has been written about the experience of Mary and Joseph finding “no room in the inn.” For them it was no mere sentimentality that they had to eat, sleep and give birth in a smelly stable-cave. And that happened in their family’s hometown.
When congregations or presbyteries send people on short-term mission trips, “we want this to be a transformation experience for every participant,” Donald Dawson says. “Of course, we want it to last. We don’t want it to be a high, and three weeks later we’re back and it’s over. That happens too often.”
It is estimated that approximately 12 million undocumented people reside in the United States and another estimated 300,000 come each year, according to materials from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of Immigration Issues.
It is estimated that approximately 12 million undocumented people reside in the United States and another estimated 300,000 come each year, according to materials from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of Immigration Issues.
c. 2009 Religion News Service
HICKORY, N.C. (RNS) What kind of personal pain would cause a 42-year-old pastor to abandon his family, his calling, and even life itself? Members of a Baptist church here are asking that question after their pastor committed suicide in his parked car in September.
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