The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Aug. 14 elected the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton as the denomination’s first female presiding bishop. Eaton received 600 votes against incumbent Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, who received 287.
Bedford Holmes likes to use the Celtic spiritual idea of “thin places” when talking about the palpable sense of God’s presence at Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center (ZPPCC) here on the shores of majestic Lake Tahoe.
From shattered bits of ceramics and glass gathered at the site of a huge gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people three years ago here, members of Bethany Presbyterian Church recently pieced together a healing for themselves and the surrounding community through a poignant mosaic.
In light of the continued political unrest and escalated violence in Egypt, Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, today issued a call to prayer for all those affected by this situation; and shared the following prayer that their differences can be resolved peacefully and respectfully:
Without any changes, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff signed a law on Aug. 1 making it mandatory for hospitals of the public Single Health System to provide integral and multidisciplinary emergency attention to victims of sexual violence.
What’s one way to ensure that a new Hebrew-immersion public charter school isn’t a Jewish school? Hire a priest to run it.
The voices and perspectives of women of color have too often been devalued, excluded or silenced throughout the history of the church and society. Responding to God’s call for the church to be more diverse and to inspire women to all forms of leadership and service, the 220th General Assembly (2012) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) reaffirmed the church’s commitment to recognize the gifts of women of color in the church and extended the “Decade of Hearing and Singing New Songs to God” until 2022.
When people of faith and institutions of healing join hands in cooperation, God surely smiles on what the world can be.
In the last decade, several countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region have had the opportunity to experience economic growth and establish redistributive fiscal policies aimed at reducing poverty, reducing inequality and improving the coverage and quality of health, education and social protection services.
Amid persistent criticism that the U.S. marginalizes religion and religious people in its foreign policy, Secretary of State John Kerry Aug. 7 tapped ethicist and campaign adviser Shaun Casey to lead the State Department’s new Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives.