(By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook). The All Agency Review Committee and the Way Forward Commission have jointly decided not to recommend a merger of the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency. The All Agency Review Committee announced that decision Aug. 21, following a two-hour closed session. Both the Way Forward Commission…
(By Brandon O’Connor, The Vicksburg Post). The Hand Pointing to Heaven is once again in its rightful place atop the steeple of First Presbyterian Church in Port Gibson, Miss. The 10-feet 4-inch, 250 pound golden fist with its index finger pointing skyward was returned to the top of the steeple at First Presbyterian Wednesday morning following a…
(By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, The Gospel Coalition). The week before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. was late for a march. The sanitation workers in Memphis had been on strike for six weeks, when simmering anger over low wages, unsafe conditions, and outdated equipment boiled over after a malfunctioning garbage truck crushed two sanitation workers seeking shelter inside it during torrential…
(By Gregg Brekke and Rick Jones, Presbyterian News Service). LOUISVILLE – Opposition to white supremacist, KKK and neo-Nazi groups gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia for a “Unite the Right” rally over the weekend included several Presbyterian Church (USA) clergy and members. The Rev. Ken Henry, of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, was one of the organizers of a Thursday…
(Posted by the Huffington Post, Canada). MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Despite a grim account of his imprisonment, the mood was joyful as a Canadian pastor freed from a North Korean prison addressed the congregation at a Toronto-area church Sunday. During his first public appearance since arriving home, Hyeon Soo Lim described his two years in isolation, where…
(By ECO News). The ECO Book of Confessions is a very special collection of documents that give witness to the system of doctrine embraced by countless reformed and Presbyterian believers over many centuries. Each document has played an important part in our history as a church and continues to guide us through the present and into…
(By Peter Johnson, Juicy Ecumenism). The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), released a statement criticizing President Donald Trump’s recent decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military. In it, he compared the transgender ban to the racial discrimination practiced by the military prior to 1948. Many civil rights advocates have been…
(By Rick Jones, Presbyterian News Service). The moderator of the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) was among five interfaith leaders denied access to a passenger jet headed for Israel this week. Rick Ufford-Chase was part of an interfaith delegation of 23 Muslims, Jews and Christians boarding a Lufthansa Airlines jet at Washington Dulles…
(By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook). A Kentucky Court of Appeals panel has upheld a state court ruling dismissing the defamation lawsuit that Roger Dermody brought against the Presbyterian Church (USA). In a July 28 decision, a three-judge appeals court ruled that the lower court was correct to apply the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine, saying that not to…
(By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, The Gospel Coalition). When Joel Kim’s father told his five children that they would be moving from South Korea to the United States, Kim thought hard. Then he had a question. “Do they have milk in America?” the 9-year-old asked. Assured by his father that they had both his favorite foods—milk and bananas—…