July 29, 2016
- Since it started four years ago, the “Ventures in Christian Discipleship” program at McPherson (Kan.) College has focused on providing small church congregations with useful, affordable education. With the course offerings in 2016-17, Ventures is about to become even more affordable and, therefore, even more useful.
- In this issue: Remembering L. Gene Bucher, personnel and job openings, Youth Peace Travel Team blog, African Great Lakes Batwa Conference, Brethren Academy hosts TRIM/EFSM orientation, 46th Annual Dunker Church Service at Antietam, disaster ministry events in Ohio, “Sing Me High” at CrossRoads, and more.
(This week the NCC hosted a delegation from the National Council of Churches in Korea. The delegation came to Washington, DC, to meet with White House, Congressional, and State Department leaders to advocate for a permanent peace treaty between North and South Korea. Below is the statement by Jim Winkler, given as part of a consultation between NCCK and US faith leaders:)
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[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart spent 20 years working as a police officer for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department. She joined the department in 1972, four years after riots destroyed parts of the city following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.At the time African-Americans made of 70 percent of the people living in the nation’s capital; at the same time, the police department was overwhelmingly white. Fisher-...
[Episcopal Dioceses of Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts press release] The Episcopal bishops in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have issued a joint statement of support for Attorney General Maura Healey.
In her Op Ed published in the Boston Globe, Healey expresses the importance of state law in the effort to end the bloodshed: “...
- B’nai B’rith has issued the following statement:
B’nai B’rith International commends Moldova’s parliament for its recognition of the country’s Holocaust victims. A report, published in 2004, estimated that 45,000 to 60,000 Jews were killed in 1941, in what is now the country of Moldova. The report also stated that 105,000 to 120,000 Jews died after being sent to Trans-Dniester region. The compendium of... - The Rev. Dr. Douwe Visser, the executive secretary for theology, communion and mission for the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), will be taking early retirement in 2017 after an extended medical leave. The medical leave, which began... Read More