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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Friday, 22 August 2008 21:15 |
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The 2008 Peacemaking Colloquium at Stony Point Center with the theme of “Gun Violence and Gospel Values,” is planned September 15-17 at Stony Point Center, 35 miles north of New York City. |
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Written by Pat Cole, PC(USA) associate for mission communications
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 18:00 |
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(PNS) Twelve new Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission appointees recently completed orientation and have begun their international assignments. |
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Written by Duane Sweep
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Monday, 18 August 2008 20:24 |
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Synod of Lakes and Prairies Communications Director EAGAN, MINN. — (PNS) The Permanent Judicial Commission of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies on Aug. 12 dismissed a remedial case filed against the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area that sought to nullify the presbytery’s Jan. 26 action to restore Paul Capetz, an openly gay man, to the exercise of ordained ministry. |
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Written by Cheryl Heckler
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Monday, 18 August 2008 19:33 |
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(ENI)--Barack Obama articulated his Christian faith thus dispelling rumors he is a Muslim. John McCain demonstrated an ability to electrify evangelical Christians. And Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren proved Americans can discuss religion and politics without the bitterness, rancor and polarization that characterized the 2004 U.S. election. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 00:00 |
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This is what people from the Gulf Coast tell Linda Gebetsberger, a pastor from Oregon, every time she heads home. “Let them know that we still need help.” |
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Written by compiled from articles of Presbyterian News Service
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 00:00 |
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LOUISVILLE — Four top leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have sent a letter to all of the denomination’s congregations asking them to pray for those affected by the shootings in a Knoxville, Tenn., church on July 27. |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, OUTLOOK correspondent
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 16:15 |
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“It is not about getting the world into the church, it is about getting the church into the world,” said Rob Weingartner to the closing session of the third annual PGF Inside Out Conference that concluded Saturday (August 16.) Throughout the three-day conference in Long Beach, California, that sentiment was intertwined with a question explored in the Friday night session, “Can We Be Faithful in the PC(USA)?” |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, Special Outlook correspondent
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 16:13 |
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The Presbyterian Global Fellowship’s third annual conference, “Inside Out,” began in Long Beach, California on Thursday evening. While a praise band filled the room with U2’s “Beautiful Day,” close to 1000 conference attendees from 34 states and 4 continents filed into the event’s opening session. After half an hour of praise and worship music led by the Bel Air Praise Band, PGF Executive Director Kelly Kannwisher welcomed the attendees to the conference. |
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Written by Evan Silverstein, PNS
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Friday, 15 August 2008 20:32 |
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LOUISVILLE — As the conflict in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia continues, Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has joined with Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, general secretary of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), in sending a letter of concern and solidarity to church partners in Georgia and Russia. |
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Written by Evan Silverstein, Presbyterian News Service
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 21:21 |
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LOUISVILLE — Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is supporting humanitarian relief efforts to help refugees and those displaced by fighting in the embattled former Soviet republic of Georgia. |
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Written by Evan Silverstein, PNS
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:26 |
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LOUISVILLE — Janet Edwards, a Presbyterian minister in Pittsburgh, is headed back to church court later this year for conducting a marriage ceremony for two women even though charges against her for performing the nuptials were dismissed in 2006. |
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Written by Sharon Youngs, Communications Coordinator, Office of the General Assembly
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 19:27 |
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LOUISVILLE — (PNS) The Form of Government Task Force (FOGTF), expanded in size and loaded with comments from this year’s General Assembly, is scheduled to meet for the first time since the 218th General Assembly adjourned in June to begin revising the original task force’s report. |
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 19:24 |
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LOUISVILLE — Sue Mooney, parish nurse for Overbrook Church in Columbus, Ohio, has been named recipient of the 2008 Elise Stutzer Award in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s health ministries. |
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Written by PNS
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 20:50 |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed civil fraud charges against Stanley W. Anderson, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) elder from Colorado who made a dramatic pledge of $150 million to the denomination at the 2006 General Assembly. |
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Written by Sophia Kishkovsky, Ecumenical News International
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:18 |
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NEW YORK — The patriarchs of the Russian and Georgian Orthodox churches have issued calls for peace as military conflict between Russia and Georgia over the pro-Russian separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia escalated into the first war between countries with Orthodox Christian majorities in modern history. |
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Written by Ecumenical News International
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:02 |
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GENEVA — Two global bodies grouping Protestant Christians — the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) and the Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council (DECC) — say they are looking to establish a closer relationship. |
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Written by Bill Kling
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:00 |
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Members of St. Andrews Church in Kilmarnock, Va., took off for the Gulf Coast on August 12 for a trip of more than 1,000 miles to deliver a shower trailer to Olive Tree Volunteer Village, a hurricane relief camp supported by Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) near New Orleans, La. |
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Written by Pat Cole, Associate for Mission Communications
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Monday, 11 August 2008 21:47 |
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LOUISVILLE – (PNS) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission leaders are asking the church to help them identify qualified candidates for international mission service. |
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Written by Anto Akkara
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Monday, 11 August 2008 19:01 |
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BANGALORE, INDIA — Pictures on the Internet depicting Jesus smoking a cigarette and holding what appears to be a can of beer have caused repeated trouble for media in Asia in recent months. |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, Outlook Correspondent
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 00:00 |
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Mustard seeds are small and easily overlooked, but inside is the potential for growth and fruitful productivity. Jesus called them a picture of the Kingdom of God. “Sowing Mustard Seeds: Working for God’s Justice — Confronting Poverty” was the theme of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Conference July 15-19 in Orange, Calif. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 00:00 |
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Americans consider themselves to be religious, but not dogmatic, meaning that most believe there can be more than one path to eternal life and more than one way to interpret even the teachings of their own faith tradition. |
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Written by Klaus Rieth, Ecumenical News International
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 00:00 |
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TELSKUF, northern Iraq — The Ghassan family had only 24 hours to leave Mosul, a city in Iraq about 400 kilometers northwest of Baghdad. They were able to take only what they could hastily gather together. |
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 00:00 |
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LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Publishing Corporation (PPC), the official publisher for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has unveiled a new management team following the confirmation of Marc Lewis as president and publisher. |
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS
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Friday, 08 August 2008 18:20 |
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CLEVELAND — Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), underwent successful open-heart surgery on Aug. 7 at the Cleveland Clinic here. |
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