(ENI) — Pakistan churches have announced a day of protest on August 11 against the recent killing of Christians in central Punjab, and threats against their members in the Muslim-majority nation.
(ENI) —The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) is encouraging parishes to commemorate the "peaceful revolution" of 1989 that marked the end of communism in eastern Europe and prepared the way for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(ENI) — The Christian Association of Nigeria has criticized the killing of an Islamic leader whose followers set off riots in northern Nigeria that claimed hundreds of lives and caused extensive property damage.
(ENI/RNS) — Two dioceses of the U.S. Episcopal (Anglican) Church have nominated gay and lesbian priests to become bishops, testing the denomination's place within the global Anglican Communion.
Beaver-Butler Presbytery, convinced that the 2008 General Assembly had committed a series of “objectionable actions,” has issued a “Theological Declaration”
NEW DELHI (ENI) — Church schools and other Christian institutions in Karachi have closed in protest at the killing of Christians in Pakistan's central Punjab region in a mob attack.
Utrecht, Netherlands (ENI) — Four hundred years after the first Baptist congregation was established, the movement's followers have been challenged to continue championing religious liberty.
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.
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