CANTERBURY — (ENI) The Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, Henry Orombi, will accuse the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, of "betrayal" in a comment piece to be published in Britain's The Times newspaper.
CANTERBURY — (ENI) V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay U.S. bishop whose consecration in 2003 polarized the worldwide Anglican Communion, says he believes that one day the Church will regret its rejection of homosexuals the way that it now regrets its support in the past for slavery.
LOUISVILLE — Four top leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have sent a letter to all of the denomination’s congregations asking them to pray for those affected by the shootings in a Knoxville, Tenn., church on July 27.
NAIROBI — (ENI) Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi of Kenya has said churches in Africa and the global South will not stop setting up parallel church structures in the United States, despite a call at a gathering of Anglican bishops from all over the world for a halt to such "cross border interventions."
CANTERBURY — (ENI) A group of gay activists in Canterbury, England during the 2008 Lambeth Conference have welcomed the granting of asylum by the British government to Nigerian gay rights campaigner Davis Mac Iyalla.
CANTERBURY — (ENI) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has appealed to the opposing parties in a dispute over homosexuality that has torn apart the Anglican Communion to listen to each other and to take a "generous initiative" to reach out to the other side.
LOUISVILLE — Second Church in Knoxville, Tenn., became a temporary refuge Sunday (July 27) for children fleeing a Unitarian church where a gunman opened fire killing two adults and leaving seven others injured.
LOUISVILLE — (PNS) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s World Mission ministry area has named two new staff members whose primary duties are to help grassroots Presbyterians engage directly in international mission.
Right now, there’s a lot of attention directed toward the southern border of the United States. The reality of illegal immigrants is a social problem at many different levels, for everyone involved.
I think the 218th General Assembly which met in California should be called “The Oprah Assembly.” It was so postmodern. So open. So culturally attuned. So worldly. So tolerant. Just so “Oprah.”
June was a month of excitement for me. I was excited about the new call I received, I was excited about returning to California, for I had been in Iowa for the last seventeen years, and I was excited because the timing of my move coincided with the General Assembly in San Jose.
30-month agreement nets $150,000 annually for PC(USA) mission
BEND, ORE. — Mark Yaconelli has a hard-won reputation helping youth pastors and leaders to find new ways to disciple young people. But late last week before a crowd of about 90 people attending Cascades Presbytery’s annual summer conference, Yaconelli’s focus was on a far older concept — Sabbath-making and Sabbath-taking.
LOUISVILLE — The World Council of Churches (WCC) is seeking five young people ages 18-30 to serve as interns in the ecumenical organization’s Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters from February 2009-January 2010.
Hope but also work for justice and peace participants were admonished in the final evening’s session of the Peacemaking Conference held July 15-19 in Orange, Calif.
Call me crazy, but it’s time for us Presbyterians to act like Congress. Yes, I know that the voter approval rating of the U.S. Congress — 19% in mid-June, even worse than the president’s — is the lowest in recorded history. But Congress does have three attributes we do well to emulate.
SAN JOSE — Gradye Parsons was elected Stated Clerk on the first ballot at the 218th General Assembly meeting June 27.
SAN JOSE — In a vote reflecting how divided the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to be, the 218th General Assembly recommended June 27 by a narrow margin that the denomination change its constitution to remove the impediments that have been disallowing the ordination of sexually-active gays and lesbians.
SAN JOSE — Just hours after voting to recommend that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) change its rules to make it easier for gays and lesbians to be ordained, the 218th General Assembly on June 27 turned down an overture that would have changed the definition of marriage in the church’s constitution, to say that marriage is between “two people” rather than between a man and a woman.
June 28, 2008
To Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations
Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
SAN JOSE – The 218th General Assembly sent a proposed revision of the denomination’s Form of Government back for more work – with a report to come back to the next General Assembly in 2010.
(PNS) Mark McCalla, pastor at Highlawn Church in Huntington, W.V., died of a gunshot wound June 19 in a homicide.
SAN JOSE — The official 2007 statistics for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) were released June 20 by the Office of the General Assembly on the convening day of the 218th General Assembly.
SAN JOSE — “It is no accident that the Committee on Peacemaking and International Issues takes so much time,” said outgoing Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick.
SAN JOSE — By a 5-to-1 margin, the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on June 27 approved “A Social Creed for the 21st Century,” exactly 100 years after the “Social Creed” of 1908 spoke to the harshness of industrial life at the turn of the last century.
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