Part II – The Text by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein Suggestions For Study If we can leave exercises in misappropriating history to the politicians, we can return to the text itself. How should we engage a rather difficult book of…
Part I by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein Introduction The Book of Joshua is part of the Bible. To believers, every part of the Bible offers us some Divine instruction. In some cases, the message is instantly available and always uplifting….
Attending the Workshop, “Joshua: A Journey of Faith” at the Pesbyterian Women’s Gathering by Viola Larson Going to a Presbyterian Women’s Gathering is somewhat like going to an information bazaar. The plenary sessions are there for information, inspiration, and, thankfully, this year, for the worship of the…
One Person’s Opinion by Sylvia Dooling How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down upon the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down over the collar of his robes. It…
by Viola Larson The new issue of Horizons, subtitled “Recreation and Re-creation,” sent my thoughts to a favorite book by C.S. Lewis. The Screwtape Letters tells the fanciful story of a young demon, Wormwood, and his uncle Screwtape -His Abysmal Sublimity Under-Secretary to our Father below (the Devil.)…
The Era and Impact of a Victorian Missionary by Viola Larson Mary Slessor – Everybody’s Mother: The Era and Impact of a Victorian Missionary. Jeanette Hardage. WIPF & Stock, Eugene, Oregon. 331 pages A small redheaded Presbyterian missionary from the…
by Alan Wisdom What does this vote mean? In an IRD press release [1] I praised Presbyterians who “have stood against the cultural pressure to legitimize any relationship between ‘people who love one another.’ They have maintained the Church’s historic teaching: that God’s provision for human sexuality is found…
by VOW News On September 3, 2009, the Presbytery of Charlotte will be sponsoring a full-day anti-human-trafficking training conducted by the Freedom Network Training Institute, an educational effort co-founded by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers that has trained US Department of Justice, FBI, law enforcement, social service providers…
by Una Stevenson According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Human Trafficking is defined as: “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means or threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of…
“Joshua” by The VOW Board of Directors When the VOW Board met in April, we carefully reviewed the Horizons Bible Study for 2009-2010, Joshua: A Journey of Faith, by Mary Mikhael with Suggestions for Leaders by Joyce MacKichan Walker and contextual information by W. Eugene March. We reflected on the lessons in light…