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News & Analysis
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Written by Bill Lancaster
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:45 |
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The Presbyterian Writers Guild and author Cecil Murphey are sponsoring a Presbyterian Writers Conference April 23-24, 2009, at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. The conference is aimed at helping writers produce marketable articles or books, develop a freelance career, and “impact the world with their words.” The faculty will include a publisher, a literary agent, freelance writers, a novelist, book authors, and a journalist. “We will offer a wide variety of topics, such as: getting started as a writer and the easiest articles to sell, … devotional and personal-experience articles,” said Murphey, who is author or co-author of more than 100 books including the NY Times bestseller, 90 Minutes in Heaven. “Dr. Michael Brewer (Presbyterian pastor and published author) will offer a class on going from sermon to print and print to sermon,” Murphey said. “We’ll provide classes on nonfiction books and novels. Conferees can learn how to get an agent, and Twila [Belk] will teach on how to promote or publicize our books.” The faculty includes Brewer and Murphey; Vince Patton of Westminster John Knox Press; Jerry Van Marter of the Presbyterian News Service; James Clinefelter, a freelance writer; Mitali Perkins, a young adult novelist; Patrick Borders, a ghostwriter; Belk, a writer/speaker/publicist; Deidre Knight of the Knight [literary] Agency. The Knight Agency has five agents and handles most types of books, including young adult, fantasy fiction, romance, all types of nonfiction, and screenplays. “Make this your big step to becoming a published author,” a flyer beckons. “Speak with a literary agent. Learn about the needs and opportunities in Presbyterian publications. Learn from successful writers who have published with Thomas Nelson, Tyndale, Bethany, Penguin, Harper-Collins, Random House and others.” The conference will be held at the Harrington Center on the seminary campus, where limited housing is available. Rooms are also available in nearby hotels. The fee is $200, with a 10 percent discount for Presbyterian Writers Guild members. Meals are available on campus for less than $20 per day. To register, call the seminary at 404-687-4578, or go online at http://www.ctsnet.edu/LL/Events.aspx and scroll down to April 23. The conference will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 23, and end at 5:00 p.m. Friday, April 24. For more information or questions, contact Steve McCutchan, conference liaison, at steve@smccutchan.com or Twila Belk, conference director, at twilabelk@mchsi.com |
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Written by Grant M. VanderVelden, Special Outlook correspondent
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 23:40 |
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DUBUQUE, Iowa – The John Knox Presbytery voted here Tuesday to enroll as a candidate for ministry an inquirer who declared a scruple to the denomination’s ordination standards. |
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Written by Bob Allen
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:12 |
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(ABP) -- The Georgia Baptist Convention has decided to refuse gifts from a historic member church that last year called a woman as pastor. Messengers to the Nov. 9-11 annual meeting approved a policy change authorizing convention leaders to decline funds from churches "not in cooperation and harmony with the approved work and purpose" of the convention. |
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Written by Gradye Parsons
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:11 |
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LOUISVILLE — Maybe we should skip Thanksgiving this year. After all, it has been a rough fall. Our investment crops have been devastated. Our long election campaign has left us an angry divide. We still have sons and daughters in harm’s way. The number of people who are homeless, sick, and hungry grows daily. |
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Written by ENI
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:31 |
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GENEVA — (ENI) A global Protestant grouping representing 75 million Christians says a new global economic order that puts people first is urgently needed to help the poor, following a meeting of the G20 nations about the worldwide financial turmoil. |
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Written by Oivind Ostang
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Monday, 17 November 2008 22:36 |
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(ENI) — Sixty years after the creation of the State of Israel and of the resulting expulsion of Palestinians from their homes, the (Lutheran) Church of Norway says that "the Church should see its responsibility in light of this, and care for Jews as well as Palestinians.” |
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Written by Stephen Brown
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Monday, 17 November 2008 22:15 |
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GENEVA — (ENI) The 16th-century Reformation figure John Calvin is often portrayed as a stern Protestant but an exhibition in Geneva of selected passages from his writings shows a dimension of the reformer that many people do not know. |
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
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Monday, 17 November 2008 22:07 |
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LOUISVILLE — Jane Parker Huber, 82, renowned Presbyterian hymn writer and tireless advocate for women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), died Nov. 16 in Hanover, Ind. |
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Written by ENI
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Monday, 17 November 2008 22:03 |
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Harare, 17 November (ENI)--Zimbabwean Christians have vowed to press on with
weekly prayer vigils "until something happens" after efforts at forming a
unity government to resolve the country's economic and political crisis
faltered. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 00:00 |
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What does it mean for Christians to accompany those who are in need? |
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Written by PNS Staff & Outlook Staff
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 00:00 |
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By a narrow margin, members of breakaway Kirk of the Hills Church in Tulsa, Okla., voted Oct. 19 to pay $1.75 million to Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery for the congregation’s land and buildings. They have until Nov. 15 to pay the presbytery. |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 00:00 |
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(ENI) — The United Reformed Church in Great Britain, shortly after the shooting, condemned as “an offense against God” the assassination of Gayle Williams, a 34-year-old Christian aid worker in Kabul, and the chilling comments of those who said they killed her. |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Friday, 14 November 2008 20:10 |
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Written by Munyaradzi Makoni
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Friday, 14 November 2008 20:04 |
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Cape Town — (ENI) Miriam Makeba has stopped singing but the ongoing music and spirit of the legendary South African singer who was driven into exile under the apartheid regime has touched the religious community of her native country. |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Friday, 14 November 2008 19:57 |
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(ENI) — The World Council of Churches has warned that a meeting scheduled to discuss the current global "financial meltdown" in Washington, D.C., includes many of the people, governments, and institutions whose policies are responsible for the crisis. |
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Written by Chris Herlinger
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Friday, 14 November 2008 16:23 |
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(ENI) — Otis Moss III, the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, which the U.S. president-elect once attended, has said that even with the election of Barack Obama, who is of black African and white American descent, it is premature to talk of the end of racism in the United States. |
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Written by Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 23:28 |
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After three days of making friends, comparing notes, hearing testimonies, and brainstorming their dreams, might 75 Presbyterians hope to create an evangelistic future for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? Most of those attending the Grow the Church Deep and Wide: Evangelism Consultation at Stony Point Center on November 10-12 hoped for that very thing. |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:35 |
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One church in our presbytery has left the denomination and another is threatening to do so. The bitterness, the suspicion, the anger that often accompanies such a divorce (on both sides) can cause one to wonder how the good news of grace can be preached or heard from Sunday to Sunday in the midst of such rancor and discord. Click here for full story http://www.pres-outlook.com/blog.html |
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Written by Jack Haberer, OUTLOOK editor
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 00:00 |
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We sing that we love to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love, but Presbyterians notoriously keep the story to themselves. So reported Eric Hoey, the associate director for evangelism for the denomination’s General Assembly Council, to conferees at the Grow the Church Deep and Wide: Evangelism Consultation at Stony Point Conference Center on Nov. 10. |
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Written by Jack Haberer, OUTLOOK editor
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 21:31 |
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STONY POINT, N.Y. — If we’re going to do evangelism well in the US, who better to train us than a veteran mission co-worker fresh from the foreign mission field? About 80 participants at the Grow the Church Deep and Wide: Evangelism Consultation at Stony Point Center soaked in a tour de force collection of lessons from one such worker on Nov. 10. |
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Written by Jack Haberer, OUTLOOK editor
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 21:29 |
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STONY POINT, N.Y. — Mainline Protestant denominations have being shrinking for the past 40 years because they’ve scaled back what they did so well for decades before: birthing babies. Growth surged during the baby boom of the 1950s, but when that faded so did membership. |
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Written by Michael Jinkins
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 21:23 |
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Written by Sharon K. Youngs, Communications coordinator Office of the GA
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:41 |
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(PNS) Thomas D. Hay has been named director of operations for the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), beginning in January. |
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
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Monday, 10 November 2008 18:41 |
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LOUISVILLE — Evan Silverstein, a veteran reporter who served the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for 10 years as senior reporter for the Presbyterian News Service, died Nov. 9 in his Louisville home, apparently of natural causes. He was 42. A Louisville native, Silverstein graduated from Atherton High School and the University of Kentucky. Before going to work for the Presbyterian News Service, he worked for a number of newspapers including the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Elizabethtown (Ky.) News-Enterprise. Joining the Presbyterian News Service staff in the fall of 1998, Silverstein quickly established himself as an award-winning journalist, scoring several Associated Church Press awards for coverage of such PC(USA) stories as disaster relief, myriad judicial cases, and human interest stories about interesting and inspiring Presbyterians. He was a fixture in the General Assembly Communications Center and traveled extensively overseas for the PC(USA). And though he was Jewish, Silverstein displayed a far better understanding of and appreciation for the mission and ministry of the PC(USA) than many Presbyterians. He is survived by his parents, Nanette and Mark; his sister Betsy and brother-in-law Mark Prussian; two nieces, Dana and Dorrie; and a huge extended community of family and friends. Funeral service is set for Nov. 11 at Herman Meyer and Son Funeral Home in Louisville. The Presbyterian Hunger Program has established an Extra Commitment Opportunity account, ³Evan Silverstein Memorial Fund² (Acct. H-000004) and all contributions to the fund will support the ongoing work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a PC(USA)-supported organization which seeks to improve wages and working conditions for Florida farm workers and to put an end to slavery in Florida¹s
agricultural fields. Messages of condolence may be sent to Evan¹s parents, Mark and Nanette Silverstein, 1402 Lancaster Essex Court, Louisville KY 40242.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 10 November 2008 15:34 |
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Marjorie Hass, provost of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., has been selected to serve as the fifteenth president of Austin College in Sherman, Texas. She will begin her duties on July 1, 2009. |
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