DECATUR, Ga. ― Marsha Snulligan Haney, professor of missiology and religions of the world at Johnson C. Smith Seminary in Atlanta, and Khalia J. Jelks, a 2011 graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary and currently a graduate student in liturgical studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., are recent additions to the leadership team for the 2013 January seminars at Columbia Theological Seminary. This event includes 14 workshops, two plenary sessions and five worship and hymn fest gatherings.
Dr. Haney will deliver the closing plenary presentation at 9:00 a.m. on Jan. 30 and will focus on the connections …
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is seeking young Christians between 18 and 30 to serve as stewards for the WCC 10th Assembly, to be held Oct. 23-Nov. 10, 2013 in Busan, South Korea.
There are more Muslims from America than any other country on this year’s “The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims,” compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center, a respected think tank in Jordan, including two in the top 50.
Egypt may not seem like the most obvious place to find a pastor for a California congregation, but it turned out to be the best place for a South Pasadena Presbyterian church.
Cynthia (Cindy) Bolbach, Moderator of the 219th General Assembly (2010), died peacefully on December 12, 2012, after fighting a brave, nearly yearlong battle with cancer.She would have turned 65 on December 27.
A ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Bolbach was elected Moderator on the fourth ballot as the only ruling elder in a field of six candidates. In a July 4, 2010, news release, Jerry Van Marter of the Presbyterian News Service (PNS) said that Bolbach’s brief answers and her “winsome sense of humor” won over the General Assembly commissioners.
"Cindy Bolbach was one of the most authentic …
In the winter weeks ahead, we have the joyous celebrations of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany.
“Long years of civil war and import of weapons since the 1980s have created a difficult situation in Latin America, where it is challenging to prevent proliferation of arms,” stated Prof. Benjamin Maerchana at a World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation in Antigua, Guatemala.
“I approached the composition as a prayer,” jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck said of his “To Hope! A Celebration,” a contemporary setting for the Roman Catholic Mass, “concentrating upon the phrases, trying to probe beneath the surface, hoping to translate into music the powerful words which have grown through the centuries.”
From Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly: We have received word that Cindy Bolbach, Moderator of the 219th General Assembly (2010), has been admitted into hospice care for the end stages of her fight with cancer. As we continue in our work and ministries, please keep her and the community who loves her in prayer.
His Beatitude Ignatius IV (Hazim), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, died Dec. 5 in Beirut, Lebanon, after suffering a stroke. He was 92.