ROME (ENI) — The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has criticized the Swiss-born Roman Catholic theologian Hans Küng after he accused Pope Benedict XVI of an "unecumenical luring away" of discontented Anglicans by setting up a special structure to admit them into the Catholic Church.
In a cynical age, hope is seditious.
Editor’s Note: I recently participated with 19 other western Christian journalists in a seven-day tour of Jordan under the sponsorship of the Royal Jordanian Tourism Board.
“Caught between Iraq and a hard place,” so they say with a grin.
On his recent trip through the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Outlook editor Jack Haberer arranged an exclusive interview in the royal palace in Amman with His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal.
More than 50 years ago, Presbyterian Women gave a gift of $206,677 from the Birthday Gift Offering to help build Yodogawa Christian Hospital in Osaka, Japan.
Philip Butin, the president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, has announced that he will step down from that position as of Jan. 31, 2010. Butin has been the seminary’s president since 2002.
Randy Harris, pastor of Highland Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., and book editor for The Presbyterian Outlook since April 2005, concludes his service as book editor with this issue of the magazine.
by Sally A. Brown. WJKP, 2008. Pb., 176 pp. $19.95.
Loving Our Neighbor: A Thoughtful Approach to Helping People in Poverty, by Beth Lindsay Templeton. IUniverse, 2008. Pb., 208 pp. $17.95.
Just Hospitality: God’s Welcome in a World of Difference, by Letty Russell. Edited by J. Shannon Clarkson and Kate M. Ott. WJKP, 2009. Pb., 168 pp. $19.95.
1 Peter, by Joel B. Green. The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary. Eerdmans, 2007. Pb., 345 pp. $20.
If every strategy for fixing pastors succeeded — if they were re-visioned, re-trained, re-newed, re-stored — two things would happen.
You want to like this movie. Mira Nair’s direction hearkens to an earlier, gentler era of moviemaking, where the characters look like they just walked out of wardrobe and makeup, and their language is articulate and refined, not plebian or habitually coarse.
GENEVA (ENI) — Leaders of the Lutheran World Federation have approved a statement apologizing for the 16th-century persecution by Lutherans of Anabaptists, religious reformers whose successors are found in groups such as the Mennonites.
CINCINNATI – Sometimes, for rank-and-file Presbyterians, it can be hard to sense the impact of that sometimes-ambiguous word mission. It covers so much territory, and so much in the world is changing.
CINCINNATI – They came to the podium and told stories
“Astro Boy” is an animated film, set in the future, about a brilliant scientist (the voice of Nicolas Cage) who loses his son in a freak accident.
CINCINNATI – The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is in a time of “massive change in every way that we do mission.”
ROCHESTER — Virginia West Davidson, a diminutive and feisty mother of four who became a towering figure in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for her tireless advocacy of full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered members in the life of the church, died Oct. 19 at her home in Rochester, N.Y.
Do you recall the story of a Presbyterian minister and his family in the movie, “A River Runs Through It?”
(ENI) — The 251 members of the General Synod of the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden have started a four-day meeting in Uppsala today (Oct. 20) at which they are to decide whether to allow same-sex church weddings, a decision that could affect its relations with other churches.
This film really is a valentine to the Big Apple.
(ENI) — South African President Jacob Zuma met with a number of church leaders including his one-time fierce critic Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the weekend of Oct. 17-18.
Hallelujah. The General Assembly Mission Council is going to meet its budget without cutting staff (see p. 7). Now that we’re not in a state of crisis, let’s talk turkey about our giving. Let’s think theologically about our financial management. Let’s handle our money like the Presbyterian and Reformed – P&R – believers we claim to be.
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