Overture 02-2. On Affirming the Document "Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ" and Commending It to the Church in Accordance with G-13.0103p and q
From the Presbytery of Redstone — email your response

Overture 02-14. On Requesting the Theological Task Force to Clarify the Issues Raised by the Confessing Church Movement Concerning the Lordship of Christ, the Authority of the Bible, and Ordination Standards
From the Presbytery of Northeast Georgia — email your response

Overture 02-13. On Adopting and Affirming A Statement on the Lordship of Jesus Christ
From the Presbytery of East Tennessee — email your response

Overture 02-20. On Affirming the Centrality of Jesus Christ for the PC(USA)
From the Presbytery of Foothills — email your response

With comments like these, Nashville theologian Gerd Lüdemann has ignited an international controversy
     He is famous--or notorious, depending on one's predisposition--for saying what every liberal biblical scholar has heard and what a not insubstantial number believe...
     It is possible to believe as he does and yet flourish in modern-day liberal theology...
     Lüdemann considers himself a "non-theist," which he defines as one who "lives as if God does not exist and has no personal relationship to God. Yet he or she has an open mind and does not want to close the door for new discoveries."
     Eugene TeSelle, professor emeritus of church history and theology at Vanderbilt says, "...what he says is not essentially different from what most New Testament scholars are saying. He doesn't have any particularly different data or methods or necessarily even conclusions when you look at them one by one. It's that he finally puts it together in a different way, and he looks for the dramatic."

The assault on truth has spread beyond academia to infect the arts, law, journalism, and psychotherapy.
     Postmodernists teach that the truth is not merely irrelevant; they believe it simply doesn't exist.
     Those who maintain that truth exists, and that telling falsehoods is wrong, are increasingly under assault. "Fact fetishists" is how New York University professor Thomas Bender characterizes people who insist on accuracy. When reporters hounded him about Clintonian lies, then–White House aide George Stephanopoulos accused them of "an excess of literalism."
     The good news is that while America's tolerance of lying is greater than ever, Americans retain enough of their Judeo-Christian ethic that they are still scandalized when a public figure lies.
This article refers to Lynne Cheney, Telling the Truth.
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Why is success harder to handle than failure? Success is fleeting and temporary. Once you are at the top of the hill, there's no place to go but down. Successful people lose their perspective. The challenge of success is remembering where you came from and how you got there.
     Closing thought. Success is not an evil, self-serving objective.

"We wouldn't have bought here if we had known this is what it would be like. I don't know who would buy it unless it's a pastor."

A long-awaited constitutional showdown over religious school vouchers finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
    This case is seen by many as the biggest education case to be argued in a generation. A ruling in the case is expected by early July.

America leads the developed world in illegitimacy, teen pregnancy, and single parenthood - all invitations to poverty and crime.
      "True Love Waits" is the name of the Southern Baptist celibacy group that Britney Spears supports. Founded in 1993, the organization claims to have persuaded more than a million young girls to save themselves for marriage.
      Celibacy programs do seem to work, at least in the short run. Last year a study revealed that girls who had pledged abstinence between the ages of 15 and 18 stayed virgins for at least 18 months longer than their peers. Unfortunately, those who had pledged virginity were far more likely to have unprotected sex when they took the plunge.