90 recipes for your first 18 months in 1001. Are you hungering for God’s love?
A central question of political ethics is: 'Why ought one to obey the state?' A Christian political ethic puts a different question: 'How can we love God in serving our neighbors through politics?' The purpose of humanity is to love God and to help our neighbor know the love of God. Therefore, Christian political ethics cannot be autonomous; that I, Christians cannot think of the state as an order independent of God that they are free either to remold or to rebel against apart from God. Christian political ethics are not heteronomous; that is, the laws of the state are …
Religious Freedom Without Discrimination and the shorter related resolution, The Boundaries of Religious Liberty, draw on the Historic Principles of Church Order (1788) to affirm that religious freedom should be “equal and common to all.” They thus build on the long policy statement, God Alone is Lord of the Conscience (1988), to provide contemporary Reformed interpretation of the First Amendment that is both practical and theological. Religious liberty can thus not be claimed to justify “discrimination in the provision of secular employment or benefits, healthcare, public or commercial services or goods, or parental rights to persons based on race, ethnicity, …
This report focuses on the role that religion plays in relationship to violence, most specifically the form of violence used to attack important centers and symbols of American power on September 11, 2001. It also examines actions that have been, or can be, mounted to counter such violence and the role religion plays in supporting or challenging those counter terrorist actions.
| Description of services provided by PeopleJoy to recipients of student loan coaching from the Mission Agency. |
Reflection piece by Ann Jones from First Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Indiana. Part of the HIV/AIDS mission toolkit.
Your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing enable Presbyterian Disaster Assistance to respond immediately after natural or human-caused disasters like the devastating hurricanes last year. Please give generously.
Use this card as you pray for mission co-workers Betsey and Eric Moe. This card includes a photo of them and a description of their ministry in Guatemala. Betsey is serving as a facilitator for the Intercultural Encounters Program of the Protestant Center for Pastoral Studies in Central America (CEDEPCA). CEDEPCA provides North American church groups, theological seminarians, and college/university students the opportunity to discover Guatemala in all its diversity, beauty, and complexity, and to experience the everyday life of Guatemalans through immersion programs. Betsey is part of the team that receives visiting groups, plans and facilitates their educational …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers the Rev. Bob and Kristi Rice. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Bob and Kristi serve alongside partners in ministry in South Sudan. Bob teaches theology and ethics at Nile Theological College, training future pastors and leaders. Kristi serves as economic development advisor for community development projects of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church. They are encouraged that the church in South Sudan seeks to be a light for Christ and a voice for peace in the midst of suffering and conflict. Bob and Kristi seek …
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers the Rev. Choon Lim and Yen Hee Lim. The card includes a photo of them and an overview of their work. Choon and Yen Hee Lim were appointed as mission co-workers in 1991. For six years, they worked on the islands off the coast of South Korea in the “Island Medical Mission” of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. In 1997, they went to Taiwan to develop a ministry among aboriginal college students in Hualien with the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. In their third assignment, Choon is the PC(USA) regional liaison …