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Written by Roy Howard Outlook book editor
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010 22:19 |
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. The third in the series of novels that began with Rosie and continued with Crooked Little Heart, I think this is Anne Lamott's most well-written and fully realized novel. She has a perfect ear for the moral and psychological nuances of a teenager coming to adulthood.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010 16:21 |
Dear Pres-outlook.org Friend,
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:34 |
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — along with three other Reformed churches — and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have reached agreement on mutual recognition of each other's baptisms.
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Written by Kristen Moulton The Salt Lake Tribune
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:32 |
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) — For a man who evangelized foreign leaders and taught Sunday school while U.S. president, Jimmy Carter has some strong words for what he sees as an “excessive melding of religion and politics.”
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Written by Adelle M. Banks
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:30 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) — President Barack Obama signed an executive order Nov. 17 that reforms the White House’s faith-based office in a bid to improve transparency and clarify rules for religious groups that receive federal grants.
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Written by Whitney Jones
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:29 |
(RNS) — Marriage is on the decline in American society, with nearly four in 10 people claiming the institution is obsolete, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.
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Written by Bill Barrow / The Times-Picayune
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:27 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) — The Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled regulations that will require hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid financing to drop any visitation policies that discriminate against gays, lesbians, and transsexuals.
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Written by Jack Flynn / The Republican
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:26 |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (RNS) — The first of three men charged with torching a black church hours after President Barack Obama's 2008 election was sentenced to nine years in prison for what the judge called a “particularly vicious act of stupidity.”
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:25 |
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Board of Pensions continues to adjust the Medical Plan covering church employees in response to passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by the U.S. Congress in March 2010.
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Written by Kevin Eckstrom c. 2010 Religion News Service
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:24 |
(RNS) — The calendar may have said 2010, but for Pope Benedict XVI and much of his global flock, it looked and felt a lot like 2002. For the second time in a decade, damning charges of child molestation at the hands of Catholic priests dominated headlines, this time reaching the highest levels of the Vatican, as critics questioned whether Benedict himself mishandled abuse cases.
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:21 |
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LOUISVILLE — While Presbyterians continued to struggle in 2010 with perennially troublesome issues such as membership decline, Middle East peace, and human sexuality, they also reached out in unprecedented ways to their communities, other faith groups and the world. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:20 |
LOUISVILLE — There’s a lot of talk in Presbyterian circles these days about how things are done, whether Presbyterians do what they do for theological reasons, out of habit, because it makes sense, or that’s just how things evolved.
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Written by Lawton W. Posey
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:26 |
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The church was beautifully adorned with poinsettias and greens, and the Advent wreath was fully lighted, including the candle in the center, which stands for Jesus. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:23 |
BALTIMORE — What is the future in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) of presbyteries and synods?
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Written by Daniel S. Williams
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:16 |
Long ago, in a presbytery not so far away where I served as stated clerk, I attended what now is called the Fall Polity Conference. During a meal, the conversation turned to the Book of Order, and even though it was only a few years after reunion, a consensus emerged that something needed to be done. The Constitution, particularly the Form of Government (FOG), was growing increasingly larger with each amendment cycle.
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter
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Monday, 20 December 2010 18:34 |
El Paso/Ciudad Juarez (PNS)
The Presbytery of Tres Rios of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) celebrated its 89th stated meeting Oct. 15 with an opening Communion Service at the fence that divides Mexico from the United States.
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Written by Al Webb
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Monday, 20 December 2010 18:31 |
LONDON (RNS) Five bishops have decided to leave the Church of England and join the Roman Catholic Church under the Vatican’s new program to welcome disaffected Anglicans.
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Written by Peter Kenny
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Monday, 20 December 2010 18:30 |
Geneva (ENI) Global Christian and Muslim leaders meeting in Switzerland have jointly called for the formation of a group that can be mobilized whenever a crisis threatens to arise in which Christians and Muslims find themselves in conflict.
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Written by Bethany Furkin
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Monday, 20 December 2010 18:29 |
LOUISVILLE (PNS) At its Oct. 29 meeting, the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) voted to write off about $315,000 in unpaid per capita assessments for 2009, in addition to the $600,000 it had already budgeted to write off.
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter
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Monday, 20 December 2010 18:28 |
FT. MYERS, Fla. (PNS) Thomas C. Paisley, chair of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Board of Pensions (BOP) has announced the appointment of a special committee of the board to consider same-gender benefits under the BOP’s healthcare and pension plans.
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Written by Daniel Burke
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Monday, 20 December 2010 18:27 |
WASHINGTON (RNS) As Democrats conduct a postmortem on this November’s elections, some liberal leaders say one diagnosis is clear: the party’s outreach to religious voters was lifeless from the start.
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter
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Friday, 17 December 2010 20:50 |
A decision by the Mo-Ranch Conference Center in Texas to allow an Islamic group to hold a retreat later this month for Muslim teenagers is drawing criticism from some local Christians.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Friday, 17 December 2010 18:40 |
GENEVA (ENInews) — ENInews is to suspend publication of its news service from December 21 while a new editorial team is assembled during a restructuring process needed to sustain the ecumenical news agency.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Friday, 17 December 2010 15:31 |
Carol Weir, 86, a former missionary to Lebanon and former professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary, died unexpectedly December 14 in Oakland, Calif., after months of declining health.
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