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The not-so-right stuff
Nearly 15 years ago, an associate pastor at my church preached a fabulous sermon from an obscure passage in I Samuel 10.
Leadership circle needs entrepreneurs
As congregations recruit leaders, they need to include at least a few entrepreneurs, who understand that health requires risk.
Weatherman chosen as Lyon’s next president
Donald V. Weatherman, who left Lyon College in Batesville, Ark., 10 years ago as a professor of political philosophy, will return in July as the 17th president of the college. He will succeed Walter B. Roettger, who is retiring in June after 11 years as the college's president.
Protestant leader lambastes Germany’s major role as arms exporter
(ENI)--Germany's top Protestant cleric, Wolfgang Huber, has highlighted German's role as a major global arms exporter, and he has castigated the fact that at his country has become the top armaments exporting nation of Europe.
Religion and politics intermingle in South African election campaign
(ENI)--Religion has always played a part in South African elections say voters, but this year the voice of churches and their leaders at times has been shrill during campaigning for the April 22 general election. Some voters say the pulpit has been used to great effect, other says it is being misused.
Russian Orthodox leaders eye youth subculture, nightclubs
(ENI)--Russian Orthodox Christians must resist the temptation to live exclusively within their own subculture and need to reach out to other groups, especially youth, Moscow Patriarch Kirill I, has said.
Philippine and Korean churches agree on proselytizing covenant
(ENI) — Philippine traditional Protestant, evangelical, and Pentecostal churches have agreed with their South Korean counterparts to cooperate "in establishing God's kingdom" in Asia rather than competing to the point of "stealing sheep from one another.”
If U.S. religious life changing, “best to embrace non-market thinking”
(ENI) — Analysts of religious life in the United States are asking if the nature of the country's religious identity is fundamentally changing.
Turkey’s Christians welcome Obama’s defense of religious rights
(ENI) — Minority church leaders in Muslim-majority Turkey have welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's defense of religious rights during a visit to the country.
In praise of ideology
Amid the blur that is his first 100 days, one declaration of President Barack Obama ought to be troubling to all Christians.
Study: Mainline clergy growing even more liberal
(RNS) Over the last decade, mainline Protestant clergy have inched leftward, with more identifying as Democrats, supporting gay rights, and calling on the government to solve social problems, according to a recently released survey.
Hurricane Ike leaves people with lost or damaged homes, little help
Imagine having your home blasted by a wall of water – leaving behind muck, filth, damage, destruction.
Galveston pastor hears the flood stories, sees the need for clean-up, healing
David Green, the pastor of First Church in Galveston, Texas, never dreamed of living at the beach.
Presbyterians, Methodists join to continue rebuilding in southwest Louisiana
Just a day after the closing ceremony for one volunteer village in Louisiana, another across the state was dedicated.
Christmas trees helping rebuild dunes devastated by hurricane
Razoria County, Texas, just west of Galveston, has 21 miles of beaches along the Gulf Coast.
Princeton Seminary Spring Book Series
Princeton Theological Seminary’s Erdman Center of Continuing Education and Hispanic Leadership Program is offering a “Meet the Author” book series featuring authors speaking on the topic “Meeting in the Middle: Faith in the Public Square.”
For spring breakers, no signs of Katrina fatigue
NEW ORLEANS — The staccato banging of dozens of hammers dispelled the morning quiet as college students, lawyers, and nurses from Massachusetts clambered about four new houses rapidly taking shape at the hands of Habitat for Humanity and St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Schreiner University students work to clean up after hurricane
Driving through the neighborhoods of Galveston, it was easy for members of the Schreiner University (Kerrville, Texas) Work Trip to be misled.
Crossing Presbyterian youth with Gulf Coast swamps
A South Dakota teen high-fived his new friend from Tennessee when she announced it was the best week of her summer.
Reformed use of Scripture
As a church we have begun to engage in one of those processes that makes us Presbyterian.
Football in heaven?
Editor’s note: This article responds to an earlier Outlook article, “Will there be football in heaven?” by James Calvin Davis, March 23, 2009, issue.
Listening, then responding
Editor’s note: This column shows the practical use of listening advice Tom Ehrich has explored in previous columns. For further background, see the Church Wellness Report columns in the September 29 and November 10, 2008, issues.
Mary Jane Patterson dies; led Washington Office for 13 years
Mary Jane Patterson, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) elder who served as a social worker and missionary to Africa before enlivening the corridors of power in the nation’s capital as director of the Presbyterian Washington Office for 13 years, died April 8 in Washington, D.C.
Listen to migrant workers’ cries, says Japanese Christian leader
TOKYO --(ENI) A Japanese Christian leader is urging churches to "listen to the cries" of temporary migrant workers many of whom are now without jobs as the world's second-biggest economy's unemployment rate soars during the global economic crisis.
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