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While trying to predict what shape any Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly will take, several issues are shaping up to take center stage June 16-23 when the 223rd General Assembly convenes in St. Louis.
The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) ended its pre-General Assembly board meeting here reaffirming, with one amendment, its Governance Task Force’s comments(GTF) to General Assembly 223 (2018) regarding reformation the A Corp proposal from the Way Forward Commission and Office of the General Assembly.
Thursday morning’s plenary of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) meeting here focused much of its attention on a series of comments issued by the PMAB to General Assembly 223 in response to the joint recommendation of the Way Forward Commission and All Agency Review Committee on the PC(USA) A Corp.
A new Pew Research Center survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults finds that one-third of Americans say they do not believe in the God of the Bible, but that they do believe there is some other higher power or spiritual force in the universe. A slim majority of Americans (56 percent) say they believe in God “as described in the Bible.” And one-in-ten do not believe in any higher power or spiritual force.
The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board wrapped up its first day of meetings in Cincinnati by hearing from representatives of the Way Forward Commission (WFC) and the All Agency Review Committee (AARC). Despite weeks of lengthy meetings and phone calls between both groups and the board’s Governance Task Force, there is still no unified agreement on the A Corp proposal based on Wednesday’s meeting.
The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) began its second meeting of 2018 to discuss matters pertinent to its reporting and recommendations to the 223rd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) meeting in St. Louis in June.
Westminster John Knox Press is proud to announce the release of A Gospel of Hope, the latest from beloved author Walter Brueggemann. Filled with nuggets of wisdom, this must-have volume gathers Brueggemann’s insights on the beauty of the Gospel and the many ways it can inspire hope.
Los compañeros de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.) piden oraciones por la crisis que se desarrolla en Nicaragua.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) partners are asking for prayers for the unfolding crisis in Nicaragua.
The men were taken first, then the women and children were brutalized. Witnesses saw the Euphrates run with blood, and women plunged into the river to escape the terrors of the desert march. Armenian villages throughout the Ottoman territories of 1915 were emptied out in a systematic campaign to demean and destroy innocent victims.
