Clerks’ Corner
Below are the latest articles from the Clerks’ Corner blog.
Monmouth Presbytery Clerks’ Corner
We’re All Called Into Mission
Today I was reading a missionary letter by Dr. Karla Koll, a university professor who is one of our PC(USA) overseas mission workers in Guatemala. (These mission letters, posted on our denominational, website, are well worth keeping up on, by the way; they’re a treasure trove of stories for interpreting to our people how their contributions are put to good use for Jesus’ sake.)
Dr. Koll was telling a story that highlights one of the problems we’re having, these days, helping Presbyterians fee…
Encouragement from Cuba
In addition to serving as a pastor,…
Thought for the Day: Jimmy Carter on Church Unity
Christians who truly follow the nature, actions, and words of Jesus Christ should encompass people who are different from us….It is not easy to do this. It is a natural human inclination to encapsulate ourselves in a superior fashion with people who are just like us – and to assume that we are fulfilling the mandate of our lives if we just confine our love to our own family or to people who are similar and compatible. Breaking through this barrier and reaching out to others is what personifie…
New Ways of Believing, Behaving & Belonging
Following up on my March 18 ”Gutenberger or Googler?” post, I’d like to share this, which is from Diana Butler Bass, a Christian sociologist whose studies of the mainline Protestant churches are incisive, but also notably lacking in the “sky is falling” panic some other commentators display. Monmouth Presbytery leaders will remember Diana from the leadership-training event she led for us several years back.
One Foot in the ECO?
Many of us have been following with keen interest – and, in some cases, deep concern – the news of the formation of the Fellowship of Presbyterians, and especially the newer group calling itself the Evangelical Covenant Order, or ECO. Periodically throughout our history, disgruntled Presbyterian conservatives have formed such breakaway denominations, but their history is not encouraging. The new denominations have tended not to flourish in the long term, and they have often been subject to …