While a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was the most headline-grabbing event of their recent trip to Syria and Lebanon, two leaders in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) said it was the time spent listening to and learning from partners on the ground that was most important.

At its meeting today (Feb. 28), the Board of Directors elected Frank Clark Spencer to succeed Robert W. Maggs Jr. as president of The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

After a racial divide that lasted for nearly a century, two denominations, the Assemblies of God and the United Pentecostal Council of the Assemblies of God, have agreed to a new partnership.

Desde la popular línea de currículos de Participe, ya está disponible Participe: Evangelio en español y coreano.

그리스인들이 어떻게 인종과 성별 차이에 관해 건설적으로 이야기할 수 있을까? 교회는 변화하고 있는 세계에서 어떻게 담대히 증인이 되라는 부르심을 회복할 수 있을까?

이러한 긴급한 질문들이 미국 장로교 총회장인 닐 프레사가 3월 중순 경에 준비하고, 태평양 연안에 있는 한 대학과 한 신학 대학원이 주최하는 두 행사의 초점이 될 것이다.

“다름과의 화합”(Unity with Difference)에 관하여 총회장이 준비하는 세 번째 대화의 시간은 3월 12-14일 사이에 워싱톤 스포케인에 있는 Whitworth University에서 열릴 것이다. 그 시간에는 “인종, 성별, 종교적 정체성”과 관련된 주제들에 대해 7개의 발제가 있을 것이며, 각 발제 후에는 일정의 토론 시간이 있을 것이다.

¿Cómo pueden los cristianos hablar constructivamente acerca de las diferencias raciales y de género? ¿Cómo puede la iglesia recuperar su vocación de ser testigo de valentía en un mundo cambiante?

Estas preguntas urgentes serán el enfoque de dos eventos a realizarse a mediados de marzo, organizados por Neal Presa, Moderador de la Asamblea General de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.), y organizada por una universidad y un seminario en la costa oeste.

La tercera conversación del moderador sobre la Unidad con diferencia a realizarse del 12 al 14de marzo, se llevará a cabo en la Universidad de Whitworth en Spokane, Washington. Se contará con siete ponencias sobre temas relacionados con la «Raza, género y las identidades religiosas», cada uno seguido por un período de discusión.

If you were planning a prayer vigil for victims of violence — locally, nationally and across the globe — and planning to conduct it at the United Nations’ New York headquarters, it’s almost certain you’d want to use Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd’s sculpture Non Violence, an oversized Colt .357 Magnum handgun with its barrel twisted into a knot, as your backdrop.

The National Council of Churches (NCC) is joining with other member groups of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) to push for an end to solitary confinement in prisons.

Member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in South Sudan say “we are tired of war,” stressing the urgency to “work for peace and rebuild what has been destroyed.” 

A new Presbyterian Youth Book Club study on the wildly popular young adult novel Divergent is now available on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)’s website.