Mike Spitz and Becky Pacheco-Spitz could not have grown up in more different worlds — he’s an English-speaking surfer kid from San Diego and she is a Spanish-speaking pastor’s daughter and granddaughter of an ‘itinerant evangelist’ in Baja California, Mexico.
An Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) report reveals racism linked to skin color, poverty and control of financial resources in English-speaking Caribbean countries.
At Charity Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., the Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III supports and follows his African-American congregation’s policy: They will only conduct marriages between one man and one woman.
But the vice president of the NAACP also backed his civil rights organization’s recent statement supporting “marriage equality.”
Segun Ilori spent much of his time cleaning a local Foursquare Gospel Church in 2005 when he won an immigration lottery enabling him to move to the United States.
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. ― San Francisco Theological Seminary has expanded its Master of Divinity concentrations to include a new specialization in Chaplaincy/Pastoral Care, starting in the fall of 2012. The seminary also offers concentrations in biblical studies, spirituality, and history, theology and ethics.
“Profound acceptance of the others, and a willingness to be open to unity in diversity will uphold values of reconciliation, peace and security in any society and community,” said Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to the participants of international consultation on “Peace, Security and Reconciliation in Myanmar,” organized by the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) of the World Council of Churches (WCC).
From the style of their buildings to the method of their gardening, the residents of the Roman Catholic Miura Monastery near Tokyo practice an ecological way of life they call “living in the grace of creation.”
American nuns facing a Vatican takeover of their leadership organization on Aug. 10 rejected Rome’s plans to recast the group in a more conservative mold, but declined — for now — to respond with an ultimatum that could have created an unprecedented schism between the sisters and the hierarchy.
The quiet mountains of western North Carolina provide a magnificent setting for rest, relaxation and meditation.
Settled in those mountains is Montreat Conference Center, this year’s host of the annual retreat of the Presbyterian Council for Chaplains and Military Personnel (PCCMP). The Aug. 6-9 retreat also provided chaplains and their families an opportunity to connect with others.
According to the 39 representatives of Latin American and Caribbean Lutheran churches and institutions of theological training, the churches are increasingly in need of a diversity of ministries, such as youth, diaconal service, psychosocial assistance, music, liturgy, theatrical arts, gender equity, and church administration.