UCC News Headlines
Ecumenical community observes 60th anniversary of World Council of Churches
August 19, 2008
Kinnamon called on member communions of the National Council of Churches to offer prayers of celebration for the WCC during worship services on Sunday, August 24.
In defense of church-state line, UCC clergy will publicly call for IRS investigation of Alliance Defense Fund
August 14, 2008
In response to a plan announced by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund to initiate a legal test of IRS limits on electoral political speech by at least 50 pastors on Sept. 28, a UCC church in Columbus, Ohio, is calling for at least 10 times that number to preach on the value of church-state separation on the Sunday prior.
UCC’s New Church Leadership Institute grows to 100 participants
August 13, 2008
More than 100 new church planters, coaches, seminarians, presenters, and Conference and National ministries staff are participating in the UCC’s second annual New Church Leadership Institute meeting this week in Atlanta, Ga.
UCC pastors visit Iran, hope to avert war
August 6, 2008
Two UCC pastors have returned from a three-week trip to Iran, convinced that the UCC should take the lead in helping to prevent the United States from attacking or invading Iran.
Governance team: Consensus 'emerging' for single UCC board of fewer than 100 members
August 5, 2008
A new Governance Follow-up Team, meeting July 30 – Aug. 1 in Cleveland, is reporting “emerging consensus” among its members that the UCC’s national setting should be governed by a single board with a membership of fewer than 100 persons.
More than $100,000 now in hand toward $350,000 Steeples TV ad goal
July 31, 2008
A fundraising effort to return UCC TV ads to the national airwaves has gathered more than $100,000 toward that effort, according to a blast e-mail announcement today.
Thomas reaches out to Unitarian church in wake of tragedy
July 28, 2008
Shortly after word of the shootings at a nearby Unitarian church reached attendees at the UCC's National Youth Event in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 27, the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC General Minister and President, sent a message to Unitarian Universalist President William Sinkford.
NYE youth remember victims of nearby shooting
July 28, 2008
Youth attending the UCC's National Youth Event in Knoxville, Tenn., found their own ways to remember the families and congregation assaulted by a lone gunman July 27 at nearby Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
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