The release of American missionary Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd by North Korea was widely welcomed while raising questions about why the reclusive State made the gesture.
North Korea freed two Americans on November 8 after it sentenced them to hard labor in separate and unrelated trials.
But mystery surrounded the release.
The painting is one of dozens produced as part of an art therapy process undertaken by the Khulumani Support Group, a South African network of Apartheid survivors and victims.
The opening of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago was one of the most dramatic symbols of the global changes sweeping across the world in 1989. Yet as Konrad Raiser, the former general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has noted, “the transformations in Europe and in other parts of the world had come so suddenly that neither governments nor the churches were sufficiently prepared for the new situation.”
For many mega-churches, a pastor can become larger than the church itself — particularly for multisite churches where the pastor’s sermon is the only thing binding disparate congregations connected by little more than a satellite feed. Before his resignation, the name “Mark Driscoll” was more widely known than “Mars Hill.” The dueling brands sometimes clashed along the way. Some say Driscoll once told staff “I am the brand.”
Hace treinta años, Kathleen «Katie» Kelly Hopper y su esposo, James Harmon Hopper, encontraron su primer llamado, al ser co pastores de tres pequeñas congregaciones, en un evento de Face to Face; un tipo de feria laboral Presbiteriana en Dallas.
Los dos estaban en su último año de seminario. «Conducimos desde el Seminario de Austin Seminario», Katie recuerda. «Fue una buena experiencia».
The Rev. John M. Coffin, a native Texan and one of the livest wires the Presbyterian Church has ever seen, died Nov. 9 at the medical facilities related to Presbyterian Villages in Austell, Ga., where he lived with his wife, Lou Alice. He was 85 and had struggled with Alzheimers Disease in recent years.
Following a longstanding tradition of speaking to issues in the life of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that touch the basic commitments that shape the church’s shared denominational life, the Office of Theology and Worship has released a ‘white paper’ entitled “Our Challenging Way: Faithfulness, Sex, Ordination and Marriage.”
The new Feasting on the Word Advent Companion offers an all-in-one pastor’s companion for Advent. This companion offers an alternative to strict lectionary use for Advent, with six thematically-designed services for the four Sundays in Advent, as well as, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
It’s November 3, the day many of us traveled to Johannesburg. We are twelve and while not the originals, we are disciples. Jesus said, “Come, follow me” to the disciples and in the next chapter taught, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” (Mt 5:9a). As called children of God, we arrived safely beginning the 2014 Presbyterian Peacemaking Program’s Travel Seminar to South Africa.
“Give us Free! Give us Free! Give us Free!”
At this point in her sanctifying of 193 early-19th Century members and congregants of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church here, the Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, pastor at Middle Collegiate Church, paused in her invoking of the Amistad mutineer’s cry at his trial, looked up into the ceiling of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, then concluded: “Give us Free!”
She, along with those gathered on the blustery afternoon of Sunday, Oct.19, were memorializing the decedents ― including 75 children ― whose bones were discovered during a December 2006 construction accident on the church’s former site at the southeast corner of Spring and Varick Streets.