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Cover designs for new hymnal released
'Glory to God' to be published in Red, Purple
by Bethany Furkin
Presbyterian News Service
Louisville, KY -- The Presbyterian Publishing Corporation has released the cover design of "Glory to God," the new Presbyterian hymnal to be published in the fall of 2013.
"Glory to God" will be the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s first new hymnal since 1990. The Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song (PCOCS), formed in 2008, will submit a final list of hymns to the 220th General Assembly this summer.
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Yamada says church must focus on multiple futures
'The view from 2040' is theme of McCormick President's inaugural
by Jerry L. Van Marter
Presbyterian News Service
CHICAGO -- By 2040 there will be no majority racial ethnic group in the United States, so theologians and seminaries must lead the way in "helping us see our futures in the plural lest we die in our lack of understanding of each other," said the Rev. Frank Yamada in his inaugural address Feb. 8 as the 10th president of McCormick Theologial Seminary.
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Commission calls for national racial ethnic ministries task force
Eliminating Synods - Bastions of Advocacy - is 'last straw' for some
by Jerry L. Van Marter
Presbyterian News Service
DALLAS -- The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mid-Council Commission is recommending to the upcoming 220th General Assembly that a National Racial Ethnic Ministries Task Force be created "to exclusively review, assess and explore the call to, responsibility in and vision for racial ethnic ministry within the PC(USA.)"
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John Buchanan tapped for top Writers Guild award
Chicago Pastor honored for books, sermons and Christian Century columns
by Jerry L. Van Marter
Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE -- The Rev. John M. Buchanan, who has informed and inspired generations of American Christians through his books, sermons and weekly columns as editor/publisher of the progressive ecumenical journal The Christian Century, has been named winner of the 2012 David Steele Distinguished Writer Award (DSDWA) by the Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG).
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