Walk to Siloam
Editor’s Note: The Walk to Siloam began January 1, 2003, when two Corpus Christi, Texas, men met to discuss the vision for an experience like the Walk to Emmaus or Presbyterian Cursillio for homeless men.
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Musical pulpits: Building trust and having a bit of fun as well
“It’s in my DNA to be connecting tissue for the body of Christ,” explains Mark Brewer, pastor of Bel Air Church in Los Angeles.
Second chance at 60
It all started with a Saturday phone call. Our daughter, a Montreat Youth Conference Coordinator, asked if I would be interested in being the keynote speaker for the Montreat Middle School Conference held each July at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., her alma mater.
Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
On Civil Unions
Civil union is a legal contract between two adults forming a partnership of responsibility for each other’s lives and the sharing of each other’s property.
Communicate to leverage time
With new communications tools coming on line, it’s important that church leaders stay current but also remember the basics.
Christians accused of trying to convert Obama’s Muslim grandmother
NAIROBI — (ENI) A row is simmering between the Seventh-day Adventist Church in western Kenya and Muslims in the country over reported attempts to convert to Christianity Sarah Obama, the grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Hundreds in annual John Paul II peace marathon
(ENI)--Former Italian volleyball world champion Andrea Zorzi was one of 50 Italian runners who joined about 100 Israelis and Palestinians in the sixth annual Pope John Paul II Peace Marathon that has ended today (April 23) in Jerusalem.
Amendment B nears defeat; Presbyteries on verge of keeping ‘fidelity and chastity’ ordination standard
LOUISVILLE — As of April 21, Amendment B, which would replace the current Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) constitutional requirement that church officers live in "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness" with a new section G-6.0106b of The Book of Order, is within a single vote of being defeated.
Spirituality, Transformation and Conflict
On the blackboard I wrote a single sentence that had come to me the night before just as I was dozing off..
Faith, rights groups lament racism conference’s shunning of Dalits
(ENI) There is an untouchable word that appears nowhere in the declaration of the U.N. conference in Geneva reviewing progress on fighting racism. It is Dalit, the self-designation of a South Asian group traditionally regarded as untouchable or of the lowest caste.
U.N. racism conference begins mired in controversy, division
GENEVA — (ENI) Race, religion, and politics are all high-octane factors around the United Nation's Durban Review Conference on racism, which began in Geneva today (April 20) with some nations staying away in protest that the gathering is harmful to religious tolerance.
Calvin anniversary prompts questioning of Protestant “work ethic”
(ENI) — German Bishop Margot Kässmann has criticized the Protestant work ethic ascribed to the 16th century theologian John Calvin, saying it has excesses in the current social and economic climate.
Stephanie Egnotovich died April 13; was executive editor of Westminster John Knox
Stephanie Egnotovich, executive editor of Westminster John Knox publishers died April 13 in Arlington, Va., after a brief illness.
Sinfully proud
At the risk of sounding unstylish and out of step, I’m sinfully proud to be a Presbyterian.
Unwelcome guest at GAC, COGA meetings
LOUISVILLE – Not surprisingly, the 10,000 pound gorilla in the room as Presbyterian policy-setting groups met here in late March has been the staggering economy, sort of like the unwelcome guest at the dinner table.
Synod court nullifies presbytery vote in Larges case
A church court has ruled that San Francisco presbytery made a mistake in allowing Lisa Larges, a lesbian who has been trying for years to be ordained as a minister, to declare a conscientious objection to the ordination standards of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) before she had been examined as a candidate for ministry.
A down economy doesn’t lift church attendance
When the economy heads downward, pastors sometimes expect the pews to get a little more crowded.
Abraham Lincoln’s journey of faith
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial in 2009 is shining a bright light on nearly every aspect of the life of the rough hewn man recently voted by a poll of historians as our most important president.
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Princeton University Press, 2008. Hb., 393 pages. $39.50.
Mark: A Commentary
by M. Eugene Boring. The New Testament Library. WJKP, 2006. Hb., 470 pp. $49.95.
The Child in the Bible
edited by Marcia J. Bunge, Terence E. Fretheim, and Beverly Roberts Gaventa. Eerdmans, 2008. Pb., 467 pages. $30.
DO This in Remembrance of Me
DO This in Remembrance of Me: A Ritual Approach to Reformed Eucharistic Theology, by Martha L. Moore-Keish. Eerdmans, 2008. Pb., 184pp. $20.
God’s Word in Human Words
God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship, by Kenton L. Sparks. Baker Academic, 2008. 415 pp. $26.99.
Saving Paradise
Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. Beacon Press, 2008. Pb., 552 pp., $34.95.
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