Boise Kimber, pastor of First Calvary Baptist Church in New Haven, Connecticut, saw his congregation pay more than $1,000 for a website, only to have the people they purchased it from disappear.
Now Kimber’s church is the model for a company, Grace Church Websites, launched in partnership with Kimber’s friend Don Vaccaro, a business executive who is also a Baptist.
Gertrude “Trudy” Bush, a contributing editor of the Christian Century, died December 13 at age 77 in Upper Arlington, Ohio.
Bush spent 13 years on staff at the Christian Century and continued to write for the magazine after her retirement in 2004.
She was a refugee from Yugoslavia at the end of World War II, and her family lived in several refugee camps before coming to the United States.
Gary Dorrien, professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, won the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in religion for his book The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel.
The award honoring “creative and significant insights into the relationship between human beings and the Divine” is given annually by the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville. The prize is one of five given in different fields and includes $100,000. Recipients will give free lectures in Louisville, Kentucky, in April.
Cristo Perez wishes he had listened to the bird. If he had heeded its warning, he might not have stepped on a land mine that day three years ago.
Birdsong is an omen to Perez, a 32-year-old father of eight and member of the U’wa people, whose ancestral territory is in northeastern Colombia.
John H. Glenn Jr., best known as the first American to orbit the earth, who was also a lifelong Presbyterian, died December 8 in Columbus, Ohio, at age 95.
Glenn was raised in New Concord, Ohio, and attended Westminster Presbyterian Church with his family. His mother was the first female ruling elder ordained in the congregation, where his father also served on the congregation’s governing body, or session.
Glenn and his wife, Annie, continued to visit Westminster, the last time they came to worship being seven or eight years ago, said George St. Clair, a ruling elder.
When Joshua Case and parishioners at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church bury some of Atlanta’s youngest victims of violence, they often do so alone. In many cases, family members are absent from the child’s life, lack transportation to the cemetery, or are incarcerated. Sometimes the state forbids them to attend.
For this brief, solemn service, Case, associate rector at Holy Innocents’, and the others become the child’s “family in mourning.”
In a community where AIDS is still viewed as a death sentence, Rahab Wanjiru is working to build an HIV-aware church.
The 46-year-old Anglican priest in Kenya has the credibility to help dispel the silence that surrounds the virus and combines with stigma, discrimination, and denial in this remote region about 185 miles north of Nairobi.
That’s because Wanjiru has the virus herself.