LOUISVILLE – While budget concerns and impending layoffs are on the front burner for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) right now, the General Assembly Council also has other concerns bubbling on the stove.
In this year of Calvin celebrations, it is worth remembering that the Institutes are a confession of faith, not primarily philosophical theology or academic scholarship.
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.
“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.
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
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.
With new communications tools coming on line, it’s important that church leaders stay current but also remember the basics.
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.
(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.
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.
On the blackboard I wrote a single sentence that had come to me the night before just as I was dozing off..
(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.
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.
(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, executive editor of Westminster John Knox publishers died April 13 in Arlington, Va., after a brief illness.
At the risk of sounding unstylish and out of step, I’m sinfully proud to be a Presbyterian.
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.
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.
When the economy heads downward, pastors sometimes expect the pews to get a little more crowded.
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.
by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Princeton University Press, 2008. Hb., 393 pages. $39.50.
by M. Eugene Boring. The New Testament Library. WJKP, 2006. Hb., 470 pp. $49.95.
edited by Marcia J. Bunge, Terence E. Fretheim, and Beverly Roberts Gaventa. Eerdmans, 2008. Pb., 467 pages. $30.
DO This in Remembrance of Me: A Ritual Approach to Reformed Eucharistic Theology, by Martha L. Moore-Keish. Eerdmans, 2008. Pb., 184pp. $20.
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