ATLANTA - "I take seriously the fact that elders are commissioned to teach the Bible," said Elder Freda Gardner, commenting on the Bible study she led recently at the National Elders Conference, part of the first-ever Big Tent event.
LOUISVILLE - Ten-thousand is the word limit for reports to a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly.
LOUISVILLE — Membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) fell by 69,381 in 2008, the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) has announced in its annual statistical report, continuing a trend that began in the mid-1960s.
ATLANTA — A unique “human” history of a Louisville, Ky., congregation earned its co-authors the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Angell Award for best first book by a Presbyterian author in 2008.
CHICAGO — Richard “Dick” Clay, a Louisville attorney and former Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation board member, has been named interim president and CEO of the church’s entity charged with attracting and managing investments, gifts, bequests and endowments to benefit Presbyterian mission around the world.
The news sounds frightening. Since the first of the year, Christianity Today Incorporated has shuttered six of its magazines and sold a seventh.
Two congregations in Seattle.
(ENI) — The 21st century world cannot be understood without understanding religion, says U.S. religion journalist and professor, Gustav Niebuhr.
(ENI) — A South African church suspended in 1982 from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches because of its support for apartheid is “still not ready for readmission,” a meeting of the grouping’s executive committee in Geneva has been told.
(RNS) — Publishing powerhouse Christianity Today International, citing hard times in its industry, is shutting down four publications and laying off 31 workers.
LOUISVILLE — The Rev. Ralph D. Winter, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister who pioneered frontier evangelism and was named one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals by Time magazine in 2005, died May 20 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. after battling multiple myeloma and lymphoma. He was 84.
A set of principles developed by persons from the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church was sent recently to the presbyteries in hopes that some of the barriers that have divided us may be removed, or at least, modified in the spirit of Christian cooperation.
(ABP) — Dear Jesus, Everyone seems to be talking about the poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
We all have the right to clutch at straws.
Religion in America used to be a landslide for Protestants. No more. Recent surveys show that we Protestants are no more than 50 percent of the population.
After seven months of consulting with a large Presbyterian congregation in North Carolina, I finally got a chance to worship with them on Mothers Day.
ATLANTA — What do young people want from the Presbyterian church? And — for the young and energetic, the skeptical and the faithful and the passionate — what do Presbyterian churches have to offer?
(ENI) —The appointment of a Roman Catholic nun as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary illustrates the truth of the saying "to be Reformed is to be ecumenical", says the general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
(NCC) Faith leaders have applauded Congress for its action approving landmark legislation authorizing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products.
GENEVA — (ENI) The16th-century teaching of John Calvin can inspire a "reformation of values" in the face of the economic and ecological crises that confront the world, a Swiss politician has said at a ceremony to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformer's birth.
Doom, Netherlands — (ENI) The head of the World Council of Churches has warned of a backlash in Europe against migrants and refugees, after gains by anti-immigration parties in elections to the European Union parliament.
DECATUR, GA.—Stephen A. Hayner has been unanimously elected the ninth president of Columbia Theological Seminary by the board of trustees. [caption id="attachment_20641" align="alignright" width="150"]
Stephen A. Hayner [/caption]Following a nationwide search for a successor to Laura S. Mendenhall, who served Columbia since 2000, the board turned to its own Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth to lead the school. His appointment is effective July 1, 2009.
ATLANTA — Is it possible for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to experience a Pentecost-like renewal?
The moving truck was nearly full, the family pick-up truck was gassed and ready to roll in the morning, and the seminary was just three days away from announcing her successor.
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