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News & Analysis
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Written by RONALD P. SALFEN
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Friday, 30 July 2010 18:46 |
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"The Dry Land." Ryan Piers Williams, the writer and director of “The Dry Land,” is the “significant other” of America Ferrerra, so it’s not surprising that she would be a primary figure in his movie about post-traumatic stress disorder. However, she plays the secondary victim, the wife of the man who comes home from war and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life. Click here to read the full review. “Predators” & “South of The Border.” Click here to read what they both have in common “Salt” is a throwback movie. Though set in the present, it hearkens back to the Cold War era, when the two world powers on the earth grappled clandestinely in the deadly, covert world of spy networks. The desperation is high because the stakes are ultimate: the threat of nuclear holocaust is imminent and pervasive. Both sides played at Armageddon scenarios, both sent secret agents deep undercover, preferably in the heart of the highest security clearances of the oblivious enemy. read more |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:25 |
HARARE (ENI) — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has lashed out at churches that allow same-sex marriages, and said gay rights would not be included in a new constitution being written for the southern African country.
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Written by Bethany Furkin, Presbyterian News Service
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:22 |
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — There are two kinds of people in the world: those who play it safe and those who take risks, the Rev. Graham Baird told those attending a service July 23 at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium.
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Written by Ruthie Merced, special to Presbyterian News Service
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:07 |
I don't remember when I developed a passion and fascination for the mysteries that lie inside the hearts of people who were born in different landscapes than my own. I think this love for cultures developed somewhere between 49th street and 8th Avenue in New York City.
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Written by Alexa Smith
, Presbyterian Hunger Program
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:43 |
LOUISVILLE — A Senate vote July 15 gave final approval to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act with a landmark provision requiring energy and mining companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose how much they pay to foreign countries and the U.S. government for oil, gas, and minerals. President Barack Obama later signed the bill into law.
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter
, Presbyterian News Service
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:34 |
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Jim Tebbe, vice-president of missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, has been named president of Friends of Forman Christian College (FCC) in Lahore, Pakistan, and president-designate of the college. |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:33 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI)
David Beckmann and Jo Luck were named co-winners of the 2010 World Food Prize at a June 16 ceremony at the U.S. State Department. The award is often seen as the Nobel Prize on issues related to food security, hunger and farming.
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Written by Matt Vande Bunte, The Grand Rapids Press
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:32 |
(RNS) The Reformed Church in America’s general synod president wants the church to be a bigger advocate of social justice.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:31 |
WASHINGTON, D. C. (RNS) President Obama has named Suzan Johnson Cook, a pastor from New York, as his nominee to be ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:30 |
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology and a scholar on the work of Karl Barth, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2010 Karl Barth Award by the jury of the Union of Evangelical Churches in the Evangelical Church in Germany.
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Written by Adelle M Banks
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:30 |
Washington D.C. (RNS) Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt has urged members of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States to seek new ways to evangelize and combat declining baptism rates.
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Written by Fernando Alfonso III
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:28 |
Washington D.C. (RNS) Religious organizations reported a 0.7 percent decrease in donations last year, according to a study by Giving USA Foundation, a marked contrast from the 5.5 percent increase in giving reported in 2008. Total donations for all charitable groups in 2009 were down by 3.6 percent.
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Written by Jonathan Luxmoore
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:27 |
Warsaw (ENI) Poland’s bishops have warned Roman Catholic Church members that they cannot receive Holy Communion if they support in vitro fertilization, because it is a violation of church law comparable to abortion.
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Written by Jack Haberer, Outlook editor
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:26 |
As this magazine goes to print, thousands of Presbyterians are gathering in Minneapolis, Minn., for the meetings of the 219th General Assembly. By the time this edition arrives in your home or study, the actions of the GA will have concluded, as reported in detail on our Web site (www.pres-outlook.org) and summarized in brief in our Post-GA Bulletin Insert (can be purchased at the Website).
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:17 |
GRAND RAPIDS
With calls for reconciliation, the healing of old wounds, and the courage to act for peace and justice in the world, the two major networks of Reformed Christians around the globe have combined to form a new body, the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:15 |
Complied from reports by ENI and Religion News Service
“Good evangelism” and “bad evangelism” came under discussion when a diverse group of Christians gathered to discuss the 1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference 100 years later in the capital of Scotland.
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Written by Jack Haberer, Outlook editor
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:14 |
Kristen Riegel, from Batavia, N.Y., is the 2010 recipient of The Presbyterian Outlook Church-College Partnership Award. Judges selected her essay on the assigned topic, “How my education at a PC(USA)-related college has shaped my faith and prepared me for significant service and leadership” as this year’s best entry.
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Written by Peter Kenny
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Monday, 26 July 2010 14:07 |
(ENI) — The Lutheran World Federation has chosen Palestinian Bishop Munib A. Younan, a campaigner for peace, justice and inter-faith dialogue, as its next president.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 05:44 |
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WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — The Presbyterian Youth Triennium, held on the campus of Purdue University this week, is a place for music. |
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Written by Bethany Furkin, Presbyterian News Service
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Friday, 23 July 2010 13:54 |
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — As a young girl, Debra Matthews was inspired to "step into greatness" at a Stillman College step show. The young adults who were performing weren’t much older than the thousands of youth gathered at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium here this week.
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Written by Anli Serfontein
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 18:21 |
(ENI) — The recently retired senior Vatican official responsible for ecumenical affairs has said his biggest regret during his tenure in Rome is that he did not achieve an agreement on a common communion with Protestants.
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Written by Munyaradzi Makoni
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 18:07 |
(ENI) — Archbishop Desmond Tutu, — Nobel Peace Prize laureate has announced his intention to wind down his public engagements, when he turns 79 in October.
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Written by Peter Kenny
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:43 |
(ENI) The 70-million strong Lutheran World Federation has struggled to live up to its
own vision of inclusiveness regarding the role of women, LWF General Secretary
Ishmael Noko, has told LWF members.
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Written by Anli Serfontein
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:20 |
(ENI) — The outgoing president of the Lutheran World Federation has appealed to delegates at a global Lutheran gathering in Germany to hold together and avoid splits in the face of differences over issues of sexuality.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:22 |
NEW IMMIGRATION HYMN
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me …" — Jesus
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