The homes at the edge of this Palestinian village are located a few hundred meters from houses in the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar. But the relationship is anything but neighborly. On a late January tour of the Palestinian village led by representatives of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), residents said attacks by Jewish settlers on their village are more organized and increasing.
“To tell the story of what God is doing you’ve really got to start with the woman at the well,” explained Laura Johnson, minister of Outreach Ministries at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church here.
After months of urging from other Baptists around the country, the Rev. Fred Luter told his African-American congregation that he will seek to become the first black man to lead the predominantly white Southern Baptist Convention.
Ten years after the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in the United States, Catholic bishops from all over the world will meet this week at a Vatican summit aimed at preventing abuse and protecting children. The conference, “Towards Healing and Renewal,” will be held Feb. 6-9 and is organized by the Jesuit-run Gregorian University in Rome.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Five months from now, commissioners to the 220th General Assembly will be hard at work in Pittsburgh. They will be engaged in worship, study, reflection, discussion, debate, and much prayer as they seek to discern the mind of Christ for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The discussions at the assembly will be thorough and spirited, as they should be. After all, matters of faith and how we live out our call to be followers of Christ run deep. Seeking to end warfare, poverty, and injustice, to feed the hungry, to do our part to spread the …
In a new book from Westminster John Knox Press, veteran pastor James C. Howell studies the beloved verse from Micah 6:8: “What Does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
What Does the Lord Require? Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, Walking Humbly is now available.
The Mid-Council Commission will propose to the upcoming 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that congregations be allowed to create “provisional” non-geographic presbyteries “for particular mission purposes.”
The Rev. John L. McCullough has been re-elected to lead the global humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) as executive director and CEO for four more years.
When America’s first ordained missionaries sailed from here to India 200 years ago, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America’s most potent export: Christianity.
The deputy chief of an underground network of Protestant churches who was arrested in China last year and sent to a labor camp has been “unexpectedly” released, Christian rights organizations said on Jan. 24.