Heartened by his inaugural calls for gay marriage and for bold action on climate change, leaders of the Christian left are confident that President Obama will now claim the progressive legacy they believe he craves.
A new program in New Castle Presbytery hopes to create space for new worshipping communities while addressing a growing problem — lack of employment opportunities for recent seminary graduates.
“Amka Afrika” is Swahili for “Wake up, Africa!” It’s both an exhortation and the name of a Tanzanian school that members of First Presbyterian Church in Davenport have supported by traveling there — and even helped furnish.
The controversy over Cardinal Roger Mahony’s vote in the conclave that will elect a new pope has now reached the Vatican, with at least one cardinal musing aloud that the former archbishop of Los Angeles should consider staying home.
The Rev. Donald T. Black, who over a career spanning nearly 50 years helped lead the Presbyterian Church through multiple reunions and restructurings in a variety of capacities, died Feb. 16 in suburban Philadelphia. He was 93.
Like the ticking of a clock marking out time, water drips noisily. Maybe it drips off the edge of a stone or roof in times of rain and plenty, or perhaps from a badly turned off tap in societies where earth's most precious and vital resource is unconsciously wasted. The sound of dripping water is greeted with joy after a time of drought.
Fifty years after they began arriving from India, the first generation of Indian-Americans is retiring and finding itself in a quandary.
Engage, a new curriculum based on the well-loved Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) program of the same name, is being celebrated by church leaders and Christian educators looking to build disciples in their congregations.
Religious affiliation may be on the wane in America, a recent Pew study asserts, but you wouldn’t know it walking into the storefront near the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield Avenue.
In the wake of a tornado that tore through southern Mississippi Feb. 10, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has deployed two National Response Teams to Hattiesburg, where a church and the Presbytery of Mississippi office have been damaged. No lives were lost; about 80 people were injured and hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged.