Listen to the September 15, 2015 Conversation with Carmen
Click here for the audio (Mp3) of our 2015 September 15, 2015 “Conversation with Carmen” conference call. If you want to download the file, right-click on the link above.
Click here for the audio (Mp3) of our 2015 September 15, 2015 “Conversation with Carmen” conference call. If you want to download the file, right-click on the link above.
In honor of Super Bowl 50. the USAToday is going to be running a weekly list of “The 50 Things we learned from week X of the NFL Season.” (That’s the National Football League for those who live in hobbit holes.) But what happened yesterday is noteworthy for more than the 50 discreet reasons noted by the…
There are times that God speaks through the earthquake or through the fire, but there are also times that God speaks through the still small voice. In the past few days, God has been speaking through the small silent voice of a Syrian boy whose little lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach. His…
In a question and answer session in Dubuque, Iowa, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said, “I love the Bible. I’m a Protestant. I’m a Presbyterian. I went to Sunday school.” He went on to identify New York’s Marble Collegiate Church as the place where his religious identity was formed under the teachings of Norman Vincent…
Click here for the audio (Mp3) of our August 18, 2015 “Conversation with Carmen” conference call If you want to download the file, right-click on the link above. Here was the pre-call description of what was going to be discussed: The August 18 Conversation with Carmen will begin with real-time live updates from The Fellowship…
I attended a parent meeting last night in preparation for the new school year at Franklin Classical School. The school’s founder, Dr. George Grant, reminded us all of our calling and invited us each to always do the next right thing. His remarks reminded me of the continual need to be reminded of primary things….
In an article that appeared over the weekend, the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Rev. Gradye Parsons, comments on an on-going case in which the congregation and its leaders are barred from making public comment. Parsons told the reporter that, “The way we got here is the way America got here. People…
The workshop opened with the invitation for each participant to share their preferred pronoun and how they would be identifying during our time together. After listening to a few others answer I better understood what was expected of me. When it was my turn I said, “Hi, I’m Carmen and my preferred pronoun is ‘she’…
If you’re looking for an official or even unofficial response from the Presbyterian Church (USA) to the revelations about Planned Parenthood’s grotesque treatment of human fetuses, manipulation of medical procedures that put pregnant women at risk in order to preserve parts on order, or the crass focus on making money off other people’s misery, you’ll…
Carmen Fowler LaBerge, my colleague and the president of the Presbyterian Lay Committee keeps a close watch on the changing landscape of religious freedom here in the United States and around the world. As such, she listens to those who are leading in the discussion, those who seek to increase awareness of where religious liberty is…