The Rev. Frank Page, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was getting ready to work in the yard in the fall of 2009 when the phone rang. His daughter was on the line.
Daddy, I love you, she said. Tell Mama and the girls I love them, too.
Then she was gone.
Melissa Page Strange, 32, took her own life just after hanging up the phone with her dad.
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has released its 2012 Annual Review, titled “Benefits Through the Stages of Your Life: We’ll Walk Beside You.”
The Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz will join the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation as executive director of church and public relations, effective June 3, 2013.
The “Nuns on the Bus” are revving up their engines for another national campaign, only this time the Catholic sisters are taking their mobile platform for social justice along the country’s Southern border to push Congress to pass immigration reform.
To listen to Fred Heuser talk about his life and career is to repeatedly hear the word “blessed.”
South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit emphasized the strong potential of churches in helping to develop their new country during a conversation in this capital city of the world’s newest nation with the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit.
In May 1963, thousands of Birmingham school children faced police dogs, fire hoses and possible arrest to demonstrate against segregation. Now, 50 years later, those who were part of what became known as the “Children’s March” say they don’t want their story to be forgotten.
Eucharist (the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper) is central to Christian identity, Christian evangelism, and Christian mission, the Rev. Thomas E. Smith told the recent Moderator’s Colloquium on Ecclesiology here.
What do Albert Einstein, John Lennon, and Montreat Conference Center have especially in common?
Imagination!
It can be hard to come up with a list of countries with the most egregious records on religious freedom when some of the world’s worst offenders aren’t even nation states.