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| NOW Available: Information for your congregation: Bulletin inserts summarizing the January Fellowship Gathering |
WHAT HAPPENED at the Covenanting Conference of the Fellowship of Presbyterians meeting in Orlando? Your fellow church members will be wondering. The national newspapers may or may not provide sketchy reports. |
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| Turnaround Strategies for Your Church — Part 5: Rethinking Affiliation |
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The Future is Now New Technologies are Affecting How Writers Get Published Tuesday, March 6 at 2pm EST What you will learn in this Webinar:
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| WHY STAY? HOW TO STAY? |
This expanded edition of the Outlook provides a candid look at what's going on as a result of the adoption of Amendment 10-A. It clarifies just what has changed and what has not changed. It elevates sound reasons for staying in the PC(USA) -- from Biblical teaching on the body of Christ to a call to be light and leaven within a diverse denomination. To the disaffected, it offers creative ways to be fruitful here in this church family. Buy one for yourself. Buy a stack for your friends. |
News
Read your own story into the Bible story, APCE toldMary Margaret Flannagan - Friday, 3 February 2012 Grand Rapids, Mich.(Special to PNS) The Bible should be read “as if God was actually talking to us,” the Association of Presbyterian Christian Educators (APCE) was told here at its annual gathering this week. |
Commission calls for initiatives in racial ethnic efforts and GA agenciesLeslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter - Friday, 3 February 2012 DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission is calling for reviews of the denomination's top-level agencies and its racial ethnic ministry. |
Janet Edwards, same-sex couple advocate fails to obtain Pittsburgh Presbytery's endorsementAnn Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Friday, 3 February 2012 The Rev. Janet Edwards, a nationally prominent advocate for same-sex couples in a presbytery that consistently opposes gay ordination and gay marriage, tried and failed to obtain Pittsburgh Presbytery's endorsement for her to seek one of the two highest offices in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Read full story |
Mid-Councils Commission calls for non-geographic presbyteries, movable affiliationsLeslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter - Thursday, 2 February 2012 DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission has voted 15-5 to permit non-geographic, “provisional presbyteries” as part of a “designated season of reflective experimentation” in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). |
Mid-Councils Commission lays out next steps in synod transitionLeslie Scanlon, Outlooks National Reporter - Thursday, 2 February 2012 DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission made a key decision last fall: it would recommend to the 2012 General Assembly that synods would no longer exist in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as councils with ecclesiastical responsibility. |
Editorials
| Road to recovery |
LAHORE, Pakistan If the road to recovery begins with confessing your sins, then the future of Pakistan should brighten. |
| Here I stand if only |
Here I stand; I can do no other.” I’ve heard those words more times than I can recall — mostly from pastors who were drawing a line in the sand and separating themselves either from a rival faction in the congregation or from their denomination of affiliation or both. However, many of those pastors ultimately sounded a different refrain: “If only I’d known what would have resulted, I never would have started this.” |
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Film in review: “Red Tails”Ronald P. Salfen - Sunday, 29 January 2012 In a way, it’s disingenuous to complain that this movie could have been made better. Of course it could. |
Film in review: “Haywire”Ronald P. Salfen - Sunday, 29 January 2012 Gina Carano has developed an interesting pathway to Hollywood: through being a professional fighter. And a good one. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s good-looking, in a girl-next-door, slightly hard-edged but still a little vulnerable kind of way. You might even enjoy a lunch date with her. You just wouldn’t want her after you. |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseRonald P. Salfen - Sunday, 29 January 2012 It was a risk, casting an unknown in the primary role. |
Film in review: “The Grey”Ronald P. Salfen - Friday, 27 January 2012 “The Grey” is one of those rare contemporary films that not only mention faith, but holds a significant and serious discussion about it. |
Film in review: "Albert Nobbs"Ronald P. Salfen - Friday, 27 January 2012 Glenn Close has been trying to get this movie made for oh, about 30 years or so. |












