One of the world’s most recent ecumenical entities, the Global Christian Forum (GCF), met in late January with Vatican officials, affirming a desire to continue to journey together in the search for Christian unity.
The Rev. John M. Buchanan, who has informed and inspired generations of American Christians through his books, sermons and weekly columns as editor/publisher of the progressive ecumenical journal The Christian Century, has been named winner of the 2012 David Steele Distinguished Writer Award (DSDWA) by the Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG).
Meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith late last month, Pope Benedict said that integral to helping the Gospel message seem more credible in today’s world is Christian unity ― a theme that members of the congregation discussed during their four-day plenary meeting.
Tens of thousands of current and former employees at scores of religiously affiliated institutions across the country face fear, as nonprofits increasingly seek refuge in “church” pension plans to escape onerous financial obligations, according to Eric Loi, an attorney at the Washington-based Pension Rights Center.
Humanist and secularist organizations have accused the European Union of denying them equal treatment with the continent’s Christian churches.
Four newly appointed mission co-workers completed orientation last month in preparation for Presbyterian World Mission assignments in the Dominican Republic, Brazil and Madagascar.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mid-Council Commission is recommending to the upcoming 220th General Assembly that a National Racial Ethnic Ministries Task Force be created “to exclusively review, assess and explore the call to, responsibility in and vision for racial ethnic ministry within the PC(USA).”
Three women representing three seminaries related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been selected by Presbyterian Women to receive the 2011-12 Women of Color supplemental award.
The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) has approved grants totaling $244,400 to 13 self-help projects in the United States.
A recent spate of campus controversies involving professors who made provocative statements about Muslims shows one of two things: a decreasing tolerance for inflammatory speech, or how easy it is for academics to get into trouble.