Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Whitworth University’s new hiring policy will allow LGBTQ faculty
By Yonat Shimron — June 30, 2023
(RNS) —The school in Spokane, Washington, joins a sliver of Christian colleges and universities that have bucked a largely sturdy resistance to hiring married gay faculty.
To be ordained, would-be PCUSA pastors had to interpret the worst story in the Bible
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 8, 2023
(RNS) Some are criticizing the mainline denomination’s choice to base its recent winter exegesis exam on the biblical story known as ‘The Levite’s Concubine.’
American Jewish groups denounce Presbyterian Church for calling Israel ‘apartheid’
By Yonat Shimron — July 11, 2022
(RNS) — The vote was just the latest in a long line of deteriorating relations between mainline Protestant denominations and the US Jewish establishment.
Presbyterians to divest from 5 oil companies, including Exxon Mobil, after years of debate
By Bob Smietana — July 7, 2022
(RNS) — Presbyterians have long had ties to the oil industry, as have many other faith groups in the United States. Leaders see this year’s vote as a sign that addressing climate change is gaining momentum.
The UN’s positions on Israel are not gospel. Why do Christians cite them?
By David Michaels — July 7, 2022
(RNS) — How can we explain important church groups’ preoccupation with, and stridency on, Israel?
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church elects second woman and African bishops
By Adelle M. Banks — July 1, 2022
(RNS) — Despite temperature checks and other measures attempting to keep the gathering free of COVID-19 free, some attendees tested positive during the General Conference.
Columbia Theological Seminary students object to firing of Black administrator
By Kathryn Post — June 23, 2022
(RNS) — Students say it’s the latest in a series of firings of faculty and administration of color since 2019.
Meet the first minister of gun violence prevention
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 1, 2022
(RNS) — The Rev. Deanna Hollas urged Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations to host Guns to Gardens events at their churches, inviting — and sometimes incentivizing — gun owners to hand over their weapons to be turned into garden tools.
When people of faith lie about Israel
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 23, 2022
(RNS) — Remember ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’? Some faith leaders need a brush-up.
Top Presbyterian executive calls on US Jews to end ‘enslavement’ of Palestinians
By Yonat Shimron — January 20, 2022
(RNS) — In his reflection on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Rev. J. Herbert Nelson said he hoped U.S. Jews would influence the U.S. government in ‘ending the immoral enslavement’ of Palestinians.
‘Go in peace’: Pennsylvania church founded in 1800 holds last service
By Associated Press — December 27, 2021
BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (AP) —The First Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, which is nearly as old as the borough itself, held the final scheduled service on Christmas Eve.
Jewish group condemns United Church of Christ resolution on Israel, Palestinians
By Yonat Shimron — July 19, 2021
(RNS) — The American Jewish Committee took offense to the liberal Protestant denomination, which called the oppression of the Palestinian people a sin.
Tim Keller’s new book is not about cancer, but race, justice and resurrection
By Maina Mwaura — March 15, 2021
(RNS) — "I wanted the book to focus primarily on the resurrection and the hope that we have," Keller told me.
The nondenominational Donald
By Mark Silk — October 28, 2020
(RNS) — The president discovers that his Presbyterianism was so 20th century.
How to fund ministry amid mainline decline? Get creative, say campus ministry leaders
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 18, 2020
MADISON, Wis. (RNS) — When it came to the future of the historic Presbyterian campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, its co-pastors innovated by looking to the past.
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