Congregations that recognize and train volunteers, Roozen said, are more than twice as likely to rate themselves as spiritually vital. The study, described as “a public profile of the organizational backbone of religion in America — congregations — at the beginning of a new millennium,” will be replicated in 2010. Large congregations are more likely... Continue Reading

Recently a newly-retired minister reminded me that I was not just called to be a Minister of Word and Sacrament, but also I was to be a faithful presbyter of the church, serving in all her functions faithfully as she needs it This letter is a late submission for the requests (of The Layman) for... Continue Reading

SJC states the Presbytery should have used a different procedure to handle the original complaint, but since the ‘Complainants’ did not object to the method of the proceedings, the question of the faulty procedure could not be dealt with by the SJC (REVISION IS NEAR END OF THE ACTUAL STORY AND IS MARKED.) In a... Continue Reading

It is the position of the undersigned that (overturning the Moderator’s opinion) was an error of the Presbytery and constituted an “irregular” action by the Presbytery. It is the position of the undersigned that the remanding of the matter to the Session was an error of the Presbytery. As previously reported First Presbytery of the... Continue Reading

CCP dealt with major changes to Stated Meeting structure to allow fixed period of discussion of crucial issues; PCA Stated Clerk Roy Taylor fielded more than an hour of questions on proposed changes to BCO Chapter 14 The Presbytery of Central Carolina, which was formed in 1978 when the state of North Carolina was divided... Continue Reading

In the coming months, ministers and elders in all 173 Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will vote on a series of amendments to the PCUSA constitution. These amendments would radically change our denomination—and not in a direction that you or I would want. Presbyterian Action for Faith & Freedom is committed to doing its... Continue Reading

Pastor Ray Aiuto is a member of Metro New York Presbytery. Prior to his becoming organizing pastor of Resurrection Church in 2005 he served as the RUF Campus Pastor at New York University. On Sunday evenings, a Hispanic Lutheran church on the gritty south side of the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn transforms into a hipster... Continue Reading

Decision not to proceed to judicial process against Dr. Jay Herring was based on the fact that the key piece of evidence, a signed document seeking to continue a previously filed lawsuit, was not accepted by the civil court. At the regular summer meetings of both First and Second Presbytery, both of which occurred the... Continue Reading

Covenant Presbyterian Church ordained Richard W. Sterling on Sunday, Oct. 17. Sterling, who has attended Covenant for over 30 years, and has served as a Ruling Elder for the past 28 years, will now serve as pastor. A graduate of Kings College in Briarcliff Manor, NY (now located in Manhattan), Sterling decided to follow the... Continue Reading

Dr. Williams’s suggestion came in his first public remarks since a parish in Kent and a London bishop announced their intention to accept the Pope’s offer to convert to Roman Catholicism In a surprise announcement, Dr Rowan Williams said he wanted to establish a new joint group of Roman Catholic and Church of England figures... Continue Reading