As Democrats conduct a grim postmortem on the Nov. 2 elections, some liberal leaders say one diagnosis is already clear: the party’s outreach to religious voters was lifeless from the start.
At its Oct. 29 meeting, the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) voted to write off about $315,000 in unpaid per capita assessments for 2009, in addition to the $600,000 it had already budgeted.
The Heartland Film Festival is now history, but the films displayed at Indianapolis will linger in my memory for a long time, and hopefully move beyond the festival circuit onto our theater and TV screens.
Catholic bishops from the Middle East have urged the United Nations to take steps to end Israel’s occupation of Arab territories to enable a “two-State” solution for the region.
Most Americans believe messages about homosexuality coming from religious institutions contribute to negative views of gays and lesbians, and higher rates of suicide among gay youths, a new poll reports.
In the midst of all of the studying, soul searching, yearning and praying in which students typically engage during their final years of college, every year a few brave and ambitious juniors and seniors at Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)-related colleges and universities choose to add to what is demanded of them by diving into the rigorous process of memorizing and reciting all 107 answers of the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
Out of a stump, a shoot shall grow.
The Presbytery of Tres Rios of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) celebrated its 89th stated meeting Oct. 15 with an opening Communion Service at the fence that divides Mexico from the United States.
A group of 55 Tres Rios commissioners on the U.S. side joined 25 Mexican Presbyterians on the other side to worship together, offering a witness of unity and hope for the future of both countries and peoples. The communion elements were passed through the chain links in the fence.
Elder Cynthia Bolbach, moderator of the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Rev. Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly, and Elder Linda Valentine, executive director of the General Assembly Mission Council, issued the a statement today in the wake of the October 31, 2010, attack on the Sayyidat Al-Najat Church (Our Lady of Salvation Church) in Baghdad.
The coordinator of a Muslim initiative to promote common ground with Christians says that leaders of the two religions have a duty to protect adherents of the other faith against followers of their own.