david m bailey, a singer/songwriter who moved audiences as much with his story of personal courage in the face of terminal cancer as with his music, succumbed to Glioblastoma on Oct. 2 in hospice care near his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 44.
The son of Presbyterian missionaries, Kenneth E. and Ethel Bailey, bailey was raised in Beirut, Lebanon. He spent some of his youth in Germany — where he learned to play the guitar and began writing songs — before returning to the United States, where he graduated from Grove City (Pa.) College.
bailey often joked that he …
Fire has destroyed one of the main churches at a monastery near where the remains of Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and his family were dumped after they were murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918.
“Hell is a half-filled auditorium,” wrote the poet Robert Frost.
In Canada, it’s slightly less full.
According to new poll, a bit more than half of Canadians believe in heaven, but less than a third believe in hell.
About 53 percent said they believe in life after death. About 27 percent said they believe in reincarnation and half expressed belief in religious miracles.
In the United States, according to a 2004 Gallup poll, 81 percent of Americans believe in heaven and 70 percent in hell. An earlier Gallup survey found that 77 percent of Americans were optimistic about making it …
Almost half of worshipers in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are at or near retirement age, new survey results reveal. The median age of PC(USA) worshipers is 61 — up from 58 in 2001, the last time the survey took place. Along with this trend comes a decrease in the share of worshipers who have children living at home (down from 38 percent in 2001 to 34 percent now).
The Rev. David Crittenden, of Indianapolis, Ind., has been chosen to lead a new stewardship ministry for the General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC).
Rachel Rothenberg, a member of Sixth Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, has had a busy year.
A dozen international peacemakers from 10 countries around the world will visit congregations and presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) from Sept. 24-Oct. 18.
Churches in India have joined other faiths and political leaders in calling for calm after a court ruled that a religious site, vigorously and violently disputed by Hindus and Muslims, should be split between the two groups.
The U.S. tied with Switzerland for fifth place in a “world giving index” by the British-based Charities Aid Foundation that measured charitable behavior across the globe.
The Office of Public Witness (OPW) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) today unveiled its Internship for Public Witness, a new program designed for the formation of servant leaders in public policy ministry.