Renowned Presbyterian poet and pastor the Rev. J. Barrie Shepherd has penned a new Easter poem entitled “Easter Essentials.”
These are tumultuous times for Ukraine, for the Ukrainian students at LCC International University here where we serve, and indeed for all of us. The news is dominated by threats and rumors of war; we fear being overtaken by events.
As teachers, our students look to us for advice and reassurance; they ask us what will happen next. In their eyes we know they are looking for hope. But how can we possibly give reassurance in the face of such complex and rapidly changing events? When the news changes by the hour, what can we offer that will endure?
Continuing a decade-long drop, anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. declined by 19 percent in 2013, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s most recent annual audit.
A compilation of news from mid councils within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
It was Palm Sunday 2010 in the Christian quarter of Homs, Syria, where thousands of inhabitants gathered in the area square to celebrate the holy event.
Bob Abrams and Charles Stanford remember when the annual gathering of Presbyterian Men (PM) attracted 5,000 people to the campus of the University of Evansville in Indiana.
The grandchildren of evangelist Billy Graham have long been influenced by their famous “Daddy Bill.” But the children of daughter Virginia “Gigi” Graham wondered what kind of influence he had on other people ― those who attended his crusades or who watched him on TV.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) communicators won 14 DeRose-Hinkhouse Awards from the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) at the organization’s annual convention in Nashville on April 3.
More than a quarter of students graduating in 2011 with a Master of Divinity degree had more than $40,000 in theological debt and 5 percent were more than $80,000 in the red, a new study found.
Lent, a season for prayer and reflection for Christians around the world has become an opportunity for the churches to respond to climate change, an issue which deeply impacts the communities they serve.