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Originally posted: yesterday at 11:30 p.m. Central
Florida church ordered to rescind their confession
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"...The Permanent Judicial Commission of Central Florida Presbytery orders the Session of First Presbyterian Church of Sebastian to rescind their confession of May 22, 2001...."
Full text of this letter
Index of news on the "Sebastian Case"
as reported by Presbyweb |
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Palestinian pastor is third moderator candidate
Greater Atlanta Presbytery endorses the Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel |
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With the presbytery's unanimous vote, Abu-Akel, a U.S. citizen born in Kuffer Yassif, Galilee, Israel, joins the Rev. Laird Stuart of San Francisco Presbytery and the Rev. Jerry Tankersley of Los Ranchos Presbytery as announced candidates for the Assembly's top elected office. The election will take place on June 15 in Columbus, OH. |
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"The walls of the PC(USA) have fallen down"
Movement founder calls for "Habitat project" to rebuild the church
By Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service |
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The Rev. Paul Roberts, whose Summit Presbyterian Church in Beaver-Butler Presbytery launched the Confessing Church Movement (CCM), greeted several hundred supporters Monday with a ringing call to "look up, pray up, stand up and speak up" for the renewal of the Presbyterian Church (USA)... |
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Pull the plug on dying church, panelist says
Confessing Church group told to 'put resources in Godly causes'
By Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service |
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The only solution for an institution as weak as the PC(USA), Conner said,
is to withdraw support, point out its failures and set up a parallel
institution that can assume control when the existing structure collapses.
We need to let whatâ's not working die, remove our support that keeps it alive, and put our resources in Godly causes," he said. |
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| General Assembly 214 Online |
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The official web site of the 214th General Assembly (2002) is now available.
Among other things: the first 22 Overtures have been posted; also: the text of the GA 214 Registration Book is now online. More...
Note: We have added a link to it in our left column, which will stay there until the official GA website of 2003 is opened, probably about a year from now. |
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Straight or gay
A commentary on Matthew 23
Viewpoint of Hal Porter, Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church |
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"...Who would block such love? Who would slam the door of Heaven on such a life? Who?" |
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Not stoned to death but flogged - Sudan
By Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI
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A young Sudanese
Christian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery was instead given
75 lashes and then released, human-rights activists in the United States
and Germany told United Press International Monday.
They said that
while this punishment was still cruel, the reduction of her sentence nevertheless
proved that the Sudan did heed international pressure. |
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Archbishop proposes to die in place of woman sentenced to stoning - Nigeria
Okogie’s offer is a protest against Nigeria’s Islamic Shari‘ah law. |
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A Nigerian Catholic archbishop has voluntarily offered to die in place of a Muslim woman who has been condemned to death by stoning by an Islamic court for the crime of adultery. |
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| 1 diocese settles, faces debt |
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The Catholic Diocese of
Tucson[Arizona] probably will have to borrow money to pay off a settlement
reached in 11 lawsuits alleging four priests molested boys, a diocese official
said yesterday.
The amount of the settlement has not been disclosed. The 16 plaintiffs
involved in the cases alleged the molestations occurred from 1967 to 1989. |
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Why are Christians still persecuted?
By David Kupelian |
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Why the horrific brutality, against not only Christians, but Jews as well? (Indeed, the level of anti-Semitism in any age, in any hemisphere, has long been a barometer of the state of civilization itself.)
Funny thing about corrupted human beings - whether they're communists, radical Islamists, Nazis, criminals or just plain dishonest, shallow, selfish folks: When they're confronted by a person more innocent than they are, someone who lets God's light shine out even a little bit, they can't stand it. The pain is unbearable. They feel compelled to put the light out.
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Ripping off slave 'redeemers'
By Karl Vick, Washington
Post |
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The highly publicized practice of buying the freedom of Sudanese slaves,
fueled by millions of dollars donated by Westerners, is rife with corruption,
according to aid workers, human rights monitors and leaders of a rebel movement
whose members routinely regard slave redemption as a lucrative business.
"The more children, the more money," said Mario Muor Muor, a former senior
official in the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA), the leading southern
rebel group in Sudan's 19-year-old civil war. Insiders say that SPLA commanders
and officials have pocketed money paid to buy captives' freedom and in some
instances stage-manage the transactions, passing off free southerners as slaves. |
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Scholars get religion
By Mark Clayton, Christian
Science Monitor |
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For most of the 20th century, scholarship and religion were at opposite poles when it came to research - with religion confined to its own department. Religion's ingrained values were seen as antithetical to a search for answers based on a scientific line of reasoning.
Now, however, a broader range of academics are beginning to see the "religion factor" as a key to understanding historical, political, social, and even economic forces.
"Increasingly, scholars are realizing there is no such thing as value-free inquiry," Dr. Mahoney says. "Why can't Christians bring their values into inquiry - and have that perspective inform their research?" |
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Celibacy doesn't create pedophiles
By Rev. James J. Gill |
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"The church's pedophile problem, as I view
it after years of dealing with priests sent to psychiatric centers and sometimes
prisons, lies not in its celibacy policy but in the way priests are educated
in seminaries.
"Countless men have told me that they had had serious questions about
their sexuality since adolescence but were reluctant to bring these issues
to the faculty preparing them for ministry. Most feared that if they described
their sexual problem, they would be told they didn't belong in the seminary
or priesthood..." |
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| Let non-English bishop replace Carey, Tutu says |
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Desmond Tutu has called on the Church of England to consider appointing a non-English bishop to replace Dr George Carey as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Such an appeal from one of the world’s most respected churchmen can only enhance the chances of the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, becoming the first black Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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| Court won't hear Commandments case
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Courts across America have reached different conclusions in emotional Ten Commandments cases, some allowing government displays of the biblical list, others barring it. Only the Supreme Court can resolve the question,
and it chose Monday to steer clear for now. |
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Top court eyes solicitation ordinance |
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The Jehovah's Witnesses do not go door to door in Stratton, Ohio, however: a town ordinance bars them and almost everybody else from doing so without a permit. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court considers whether such laws violate the constitutional right to free speech.
The Jehovah's Witnesses says its members spend more than a billion hours a year telling others about the religion, much of it going door to door with leaflets and invitations to hear the group's teachings.
Mormons, Independent Baptist Churches of America, Gun Owners of America and the American Civil Liberties Union are among more than a dozen organizations that signed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the church.
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| Paula Zahn interviews Pat Robertson on CNN - transcript |
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The topic: Robertson's earlier remarks on Islam:
"I have taken issue with our esteemed president in regard to a stand in saying Islam is a peaceful religion. It is just not, and the Quran makes it very clear if you see an infidel, you are to kill him".
Robertson also said, "Islam is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominated, and then if need be destroy".
He doesn't backtrack, points to Koran and history. |
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The vote on Amendment 01-A: 40 yes - 107 no (2/26)
Details on our acclaimed, fast-loading Vote chart
See Graph: Cumulative Presbytery Votes by month (updated 02/26)
and the Chart of votes per Synod (updated 02/26) |
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Results of this week :
YES:
NO: Philadelphia; Charlotte; Cherokee
If the remaining presbyteries vote on 01-A as they did on 97-A, amendment 01-A will fail by 46 yes - 127 no (latest adjustment: 2/25)
(See our analysis "Will results be close to those of 97-A?")
Please,
to us. Thank you!
Official tally on all 8 amendments
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| Letters from readers |
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Dean C. Waldt "In the response of Rev. Brundage to my prior letter, he suggests that I need to set aside "the spirit of hostility". As I mentioned previously, anger toward unrepentant sin in the Church is both righteous and good..." |
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Christian Boyd responds to "Why stay?" letter from Roger Dennie. |
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Whitman Brisky "Jim Tony asks whether the Constitution of the PC(USA) will remain effectual in the face of what seems to be a determined strategy to disregard G-6.0106b by some of the supporters of failed Amendment 01-A. The stakes here are not only anarchy (the opposites of peace and purity), but unity itself..." |
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Richard E. Hoffman 'I am saddened that the Circleville Presbyterian Church is seeking to move to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, especially now that Amendment 01-A has been soundly defeated..." |
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