Flyaway Books has announced that Ian de Haes’ “Simon and the Big, Bad, Angry Beasts: A Book about Anger” has been recognized as a finalist in the 21st annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Read more »
March 14, 2019
‘Simon and the Big, Bad, Angry Beasts’ is book award finalist
Flyaway Books has announced that Ian de Haes’ “Simon and the Big, Bad, Angry Beasts: A Book about Anger” has been recognized as a finalist in the 21st annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Read more »
La junta directiva de La corporación presbiteriana de publicaciones ha anunciado que, efectivo desde el 1 de Julio, David M. Dobson será el nuevo presidente y editor ejecutivo de la agencia. 
Nana Boateng and Joy Durrant stepped into the massive foyer of the United Nations building Monday morning and were a little lost.
The destination was Conference Room 11, but how to get there? What did they need to get in? A helpful security officer told them where the room was, and that they might need special passes for the conference they wanted to attend in the opening hours of the 63rd Annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). 
Last week during their first day engaging communities in South Louisiana that were hit hard by natural and human-caused environmental disasters, members of the Mission Responsibility Through Investment Committee took a bayou boat ride courtesy of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe. 
About five years ago, Adam J. Copeland met with a husband and wife who were co-pastoring a church.The couple tithed their income to the congregation and had no extra income to give to other charities and causes that they wanted to support. That reality had made them resentful of the church.“If tithing to church is the goal, there needed to be a reality check,” Copeland says. 
There are many of us who don’t necessarily have much use for church anymore, but who love people and who want to do good in the world. Organized religion just doesn’t appeal to us. But that doesn’t mean we can’t serve God or that God doesn’t love us. 
Whether he’s writing about his pig-valve heart transplant, introducing readers to a galley of inspiring poets and poems, or describing the hearse ride at the funeral of Seamus Heaney, Thomas Lynch has an uncanny knack for writing about death — and ultimately, life — in ways that are never morbid, sometimes humorous, but always thoughtful. 
The 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti and changed it forever also set Andral Estes’s life on a radically different course. 
Meeting together since 2010 as a group dedicated to “vibrant theological discussion, spiritual growth and evangelistic courage” in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), NEXT Church is gathering this week under its 2019 theme “Woven Together: Stories of Dissonance, Sacrifice and Liberation.”