At times, strong relationships between the church in Puerto Rico and other parts of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been frustrated by differences in location and language; yet, those differences have not brought the Synod of Boriquen immunity to the questions facing every expression of the church. With that in mind, Presbyterian Mission Agency leaders recently visited with the synod to spend time in worship and reflection and to introduce the 1001 New Worshiping Communities movement to the presbyteries.
SEATTLE — First Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, a part of Seattle Presbytery, was chartered April 14. The church started as a weekly Bible study in 2002 and began a partnership with Mercer Island Presbyterian Church in 2003.
A castle dedicated to slave trade in Ghana was also the site of the country’s first Christian chapel, delegates of a global church organization have heard.
Most songwriters in Nashville want to get their songs on the radio. Keith and Kristyn Getty hope their songs end up in dusty old hymnbooks.
My pastor approached me in 2002 with a handful of papers and told me, “Here, you should do this. You do it all anyway ― you might as well get paid for it.”
Each of the rural Colombian communities which we ― the Program for Ecumenical Accompaniment in Colombia (PEAC) ― have visited has its own distinct context, but there are elements which are common to all: the fear, the persecution, the blackmail, the threats; the attempts to resist, betrayal, corruption, guilt and blame and confusion.
When Karen Hunt Ahmed and her Muslim husband divorced four years ago, many friends asked her, “Now you can stop this Islam stuff, right?”
After losing a long legal battle on the route of Israel’s Separation Barrier, the monks and nuns of the Cremisan Valley near Bethlehem will lose access to the school they run together.
The president of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), Jerry Pillay, embarked on the road to a career of service in the church at a very young age. It was as a 10-year old boy that he felt the call of God to ordained ministry.
How far can one go in retelling a Bible story, adding things that are not in the original? In The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin goes a long way.