(ENI) Swiss chocolatier Blaise Poyet believes he has captured the essence of the Protestant reformer Jean Calvin in special chocolate pralines he created to mark the 500th anniversary of the religious figure who made his mark on European history.
(ENI)--Christian emergency response organizations have expressed alarm at a deteriorating situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and about brutalities innocent civilians are facing in a potential humanitarian catastrophe.
(ENI)--Churches in India have joined in widespread denunciation of a series of bomb blasts that killed at least 76 people and left more than 400 injured in Assam state, in north-east India, and that also damaged a Baptist center.
John Malkovich plays Presbyterian minister the Rev. Dr. Gustav Briegleb in Clint Eastwood’s new film “Changeling”.
The film tells the story of how in 1928 the minister came to the aid of Christine Collins, a mother who was wrongly imprisoned in a psychiatric ward because she insisted that the boy whom the police had returned to her was not her kidnapped nine-year-old son, Walter. (Ron Salfen’s OUTLOOK review of this film is also available on this Web site, under “Reviews.”)
A healthy congregation will try to live on two levels at once: the overarching and future-oriented, and the basics of doing day-to-day ministry.
Editor’s Note: Jack Haberer, current Outlook editor, was a member of the Theological Task Force on the Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church. He accepted that assignment before coming to The Presbyterian Outlook.
Ever since G-6.0106b was added to the Book of Order, I have been working with other Presbyterians to remove or replace it because — I am convinced — it is Biblically, theologically, and legally unsound. In June, the General Assembly placed before the church as Amendment 08-B a beautifully-crafted alternative. Grateful as I am to the framers from Boston Presbytery and the commissioners who recognized the value of their work, I do not think that it will benefit the church to act on this constitutional amendment this year.
John Adams warned against the forming of political parties. He feared the divisiveness would tear the nation apart — with good reason.
Christians sensing they are almost aliens in their own cultures have a lot in common with the first century believers, according to Jim Edwards of Whitworth University, who taught a Bible study at the closing session of this year’s Presbyterian Coalition 11th Annual Gathering in Newport Beach, Calif., October 15.
DECATUR, GEORGIA — Laura Mendenhall announced Oct. 8 that she will conclude her tenure as president of Columbia Theological Seminary at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year.
In the waning moments of the General Assembly Council meeting, Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly, floated an idea.
In times of economic upheaval, everybody gets inconvenienced. Most feel anxious. Some — a minority — actually lose their jobs, their homes, their savings, even their hope. Their plight often goes unnoticed.
Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has issued a statement condemning the hanging of effigies of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Word has reached the OUTLOOK that Louis H. Evans, Jr., once pastor of Bel Air Church in Los Angeles, Calif., and National Church in Washington, D.C., died at home Oct. 28 in his sleep. His wife of more than 50 years, Colleen Townsend Evans, was with him.
LOUISVILLE — Adding its voice to the widespread public concern for possible voter disenfranchisement, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy [www.pcusa.org/acswp] (ACSWP) Oct. 27 released a report entitled, “Lift Every Voice: Democracy, Voting Rights, and Electoral Reform”.
(ENI) -- The leader of Zimbabwe's largest functioning alliance of Christians says the country's main grouping of traditional Protestant churches and the African and global umbrella church organizations with which it is affiliated have been notable for their silence on what is happening in his country.
(ENI)--Church leaders and activists have hailed as "courageous" the decision by a young Roman Catholic nun to publicly recount how she was raped by Hindu extremists in India's eastern Orissa state, and who has reiterated her demand for federal police to investigate the case.
“Changeling” is definitely not happily ever after. Angelina Jolie plays Christine Collins, a single Mom of the 1920s, whose young son disappeared from home one Saturday while she was at work. What follows is her harrowing experience with the Los Angeles Police Department, who first did nothing, then didn’t believe her, then tried to pawn off another kid as hers, and then considered her crazy when she wouldn’t accept him as her own.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled cycle of reporting to direct our attention to you. Older folks speak often of you as “the church of the future;” at other times they amend their words with: “The youth ARE the church right now.”
SNOWBIRD, UTAH — The news is full of the nation’s economic crisis and for many congregations and Presbyterian families, there is a lot about which to be concerned. What will happen to endowments, investments, retirement funds? What about job stability and the price of gasoline, food and heating fuel, with the approaching winter?
SNOWBIRD, UTAH — What role should the Presbyterian News Service play in the life of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)?
SNOWBIRD, UTAH –—Among Presbyterians, the word “missional” is as popular these days as “awesome” is for teenagers.
Frequently the notion that the church has an important role to play in higher education seems freighted with nostalgia. We are likely to remember the crucial role the church played historically in founding some of the nation’s most influential colleges, some of which have become even more influential universities.
“My college will never give academic credit to a student for doing community service!” Words spoken by a college president in defense of academic integrity, but missing the integrity of community service by students and their mentors as a context within which learning takes place.
Long before I arrived, First Church in Lincoln was sending Christmas care packages to its college students. Sometime in late November the deacons gather and cram cookies, candy, games, pencils, and all sorts of trinkets into small boxes and mail them off to students across the country. It is an important ritual for our deacons. As they see the names on the boxes, they remember fondly the kids who have grown up here and moved on to pastures green.
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