With Micah 6:8 as its theme, the New Wilmington Mission Conference will encourage participants to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God at its July 19-25 gathering at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
A group of Latin American church leaders met here recently to discuss how the Latin American churches can concretize in the world the economic and social justice principles and theological declarations outlined in the Accra Confession of the former World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC).
So let’s talk shoes.
I’ve never liked shopping for shoes. I’ve had bad feet from birth and rarely have found a truly comfortable pair of shoes. My mom forced me to wear orthopedic shoes through Junior High school, which, as you can imagine, just gave the other kids one more reason to think I was geeky and weird. I’ve never been able to wear fancy high heels, although I don’t mind all that much. Still, it would be nice to have the option of wearing whatever shoes I wanted without limping in pain.
The Rev. Joe Evans, pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Tenn., is the featured preacher for the 5th and 6th Sundays after Pentecost, July 20 and 27, on “Day 1” with host Peter Wallace, the nationally broadcast ecumenical radio program also accessible online at Day1.org.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to finally issue its ruling this week in the highly anticipated case of the craft companies vs. Obamacare.
Marilyn Gamm, interim associate pastor of Crossroads Presbyterian Church in Mequon, Wis., is the new chair of the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) Board.
During a brief ceremony at the conclusion of the final report of the 221th General Assembly’s Mission Coordination Committee, Gamm received a stole and cross from outgoing board chair, Matt Schramm, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Bay City, Mich.
A group of Latin American church leaders met here recently to discuss how the Latin American churches can concretize in the world the economic and social justice principles and theological declarations outlined in the Accra Confession of the former World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC).
Along our way to the Promised Land, we like Jesus may well find ourselves driven into the wilderness.
“Maybe you felt yourself in the wilderness a time or two this week, languishing in the dry ravines of Robert’s Rules of Order,” Martha Moore-Keish, associate professor of theology at Columbia Theological Seminary, preached on Saturday during closing worship of the 221st General Assembly (2014) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The wilderness may well be a fearsome place, “but for Israel it was also the place where people learned to trust in God and in one another,” she said. “Could it …
On June 21 here, the Rev. Marilyn Gamm took the stage as the new chair of the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) Board, succeeding the Rev. Matt Schramm, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Bay City, Mich., who completes his two-year term as chair with the adjournment of the 221st General Assembly.
In a first meeting since 2009 and since the 2013 appointment of a new leader for the Korea Christian Federation (KCF) of North Korea, an international group of church leaders from 34 countries, including North and South Korea, met at Bossey near here to seek ways to advance reconciliation and peace on the peninsula.