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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:52 |
LOUISVILLE — Nearly three-dozen Christian leaders across the theological spectrum have issued a public statement saying they are "deeply troubled by the recent questioning of President Obama's faith."
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Written by Jack Haberer, Outlook editor
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Monday, 30 August 2010 23:50 |
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WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2010 – Western Presbyterian Church here welcomed leaders of Christian, Jewish and Muslim organizations to a press conference, in which those leaders called upon Americans to end the rhetoric of contempt that has arisen from a proposal to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York City. |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 30 August 2010 18:08 |
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It is easy to say as a Christian we want to follow Jesus. But Outlook blogger Tom Hobson asks us which Jesus we are choosing to follow? And how does that choice determine our understanding of Scripture and issues such as sexuality? See his new blog post, as "Presbyterian Bible Junkie" on the Outlook Web blog (hit the blog box at the top of this page.) |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 18:45 |
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When the General Assembly headed home from Minneapolis, it left the definition of marriage intact in the Book of Order of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The PC(USA) continues to define Christian marriage as being between “a man and a woman.” |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Friday, 27 August 2010 15:27 |
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Written by Chris Herlinger, Ecumenical News International
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:13 |
What does the future hold for the institutional church in the United States, particularly “mainline Protestant” churches that once dominated the country’s cultural landscape?
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:08 |
MONTREAT, N.C. — Institutions and movements — secular and religious — need each other to retain their vitality, even as they frustrate each other, cutting-edge theologian Brain McLaren told several hundred Presbyterians gathered here in mid-August for "Church Unbound."
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 14:57 |
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Citizens of different political ideologies are weighing in on the proposal to build an Islamic community center with a prayer room two blocks from Ground Zero in New York City. Wilson College Professor David True blogs his thoughts on this issue and how it reminds Americans of others who defined in part the character of our country in different times with fractious issues.
Please read his blog by clicking here.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 14:45 |
Houston (RNS) — Delegates of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has elected the denomination's director of disaster response as president, a candidate backed by its more conservative members.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 14:44 |
(RNS) — A Michigan-based gay rights foundation has given more than $400,000 to the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif., to help craft formal same-sex covenanting liturgies for the Episcopal Church.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 14:41 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) — U.S. Catholic bishops are defending the Vatican's decision to include the ordination of women with the sexual abuse of children in a long-awaited revision of the church's most serious crimes, “delicta graviora.”
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 14:40 |
BANGALORE (ENI) — The governor of southern India's Karnataka state, where most of the recent atrocities on Christians have been committed, has paid tribute to the Christian contribution to national life.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 05:07 |
Deborah A. Block has been elected to serve as chair of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation board of directors. Block, a member of the PPC board since 2004, is the first woman to serve as chair in the history of PPC. She succeeds Kenneth Godshall, who has been chair since 2006.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 05:06 |
CANTERBURY (ENI) — The Church of England may be facing a war over the issue of ordaining women as bishops after a vote by its ruling general synod.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 23 August 2010 05:04 |
VIENNA (ENI) — Faith leaders can play a key role in the fight against the HIV pandemic if their public statements help combat stigma and discrimination, a meeting of faith groups here in advance of the 18th International AIDS Conference has heard.
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Written by Michael Jinkins
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Monday, 23 August 2010 05:00 |
It is almost a truism to say that we live in the most anxious of times. A few brush-strokes pain the picture.
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Written by Cathleen Falsani
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Monday, 23 August 2010 04:54 |
Editor’s Note: Leading New Testament scholar N. T. Wright, 61, retired after seven years as the Bishop of Durham on August 31. He will take a chair in New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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Written by Earl F. Palmer
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:31 |
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During a mountaineering experience, two of us found a small lake beneath Mount Shasta. We studied the map and noticed that it was indicated but unnamed. |
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Written by Maurice Malanes
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:44 |
MANILA (ENI) — Although Philippines President Benigno Aquino has drawn public support for his "agenda for change," a Protestant churches' leader says reform will be hard to achieve if the leader of this southeast Asian nation of almost 100 million is to misread "the fundamental roots" of its "misery."
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:07 |
Howard Leland Rice, a longtime professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary, a former General Assembly moderator, and an academic who reminded Presbyterians for decades of the importance of spirituality in everyday life, has died at age 78. |
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Written by Alfredo Garcia
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:04 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI-RNS) — Twenty religious organizations are calling for the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama to ensure a fair and thorough investigation into allegations of forced human experimentation by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on detainees after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Written by Stephen Brown
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:03 |
GENEVA (ENI) — Somalia is a "prime example" of an emergency the world has forgotten, says the ACT Alliance of churches and humanitarian agencies.
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Written by Anto Akkara
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:01 |
BANGALORE (ENI) — Churches throughout India have been urged to hoist black flags tomorrow (August 10) to protest against continued discrimination faced by Christian Dalits, people from low castes treated as untouchables.
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Written by Anto Akkara
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:58 |
BANGALORE (ENI) — The International Assistance Mission, a Christian development agency, has rejected Taliban claims that 10 of its staff killed in an attack in Afghanistan had been trying to convert Muslims.
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Written by Bethany Furkin, Presbyterian News Service
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:56 |
NEW WILMINGTON, Penn. — On a recent morning, Saleem Ghubril took a walk around Brittain Lake on the campus of Westminster College. He was taking some time for solitude and reflection before delivering his final speech at the New Wilmington Mission Conference, where he had served as the daily morning speaker.
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