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CATEGORIES
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Presbyterian Church (USA)
is the official website for our
denomination, including our highest
governing body, The General Assembly. The site has many
resources,
including the online version of Presbyterians Today.
The Synod of Lincoln
Trails is a middle governing
body of the Presbyterian Church
(USA) serving eight Presbyteries and over 700 congregations in Indiana
and Illinois.
The Presbytery of
Chicago is a regional governing
body of the Presbyterian
Church (USA) serving Lake, Cook, and DuPage counties.
Presbyterian 101: A
General Guide to Facts About the
PCUSA includes information
about Presbyterian distinctives, history, theology, sacraments,
social isssues,
and the church's people.
Related
Organizations and
Publications
Layman Online is
the
official website of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, a group commited
to raising the biblical and
theological standard in the Presbyterian
Church (USA). The site has news and information from their journal,
as
well a link to the site that they provide for the Confessing Church
Movement.
Presbyterian Outlook
is an independent publication
which addresses the major issues before
the church. The web site includes news, commentary, and
book reviews
from the print edition.
Voice of Orthodox Women is
a network of women and men
who promote the doctrines and practices of
the historic Christian faith as expressed in the Ecumenical Creeds
of
the Church.
Voices of Sophia is a community of
women and
men in the larger community of the Presbyterian Church (USA) being reformed by God through the Spirit of
the living
Christ, and working toward the transformation of the church into a discipleship of equals. They work jointly with the
Witherspoon Society.
Wicker Park Grace is a welcoming
community which seeks to grow in spirit, mind, and heart. Our community is centered in a generous and dynamic
Christianity. This exploratory church is supported by several Presbyterian churches and organizations, including
the Presbytery of Chicago.
Witherspoon Society
offers news and views from a
progressive Presbyterian perspective.
They advocate for peace, justice, and integrity of creation, and the
full inclusion of all God's people in church and society.
General Information
BeliefNet is a
multi-faith virtual community
designed to help meet religious and
spiritual needs by providing information and inspiration. It is
not
affiliated with a particular religion or spiritual movement.
Global Ethics and Religion Forum
promotes global ethical
responsibility by addressing specific issues through an intercultural and interreligious approach.
Ontario Consultants
on Religious Tolerance are
dedicated to helping the
development of a religiously tolerant culture. Their site describes
many faith
groups and belief sytems. They also have essays discussing
various religious topics and beliefs.
The
Religious Movements Homepage was created in the context of the
study of the
Sociology of Religion, and contains a wealth of
information about various religious groups, especially new religious
movements. A new editor-in-chief will be
working on the site, but the archives are still at the University of Virginia.
ReligiousResources.org contains a comprehensive,
searchable
directory of over 4000 religious-related Internet resources, organized
into over 300
categories.
Bibles and Bible Study
The Bible Gateway
has numerous bible
translations available for reading and searching,
including foreign language editions.
The
Revised Common
Lectionary is prepared by the
Consultation on Common Texts, and provided by the
Vanderbilt Divinity Library. Suggested
readings from the Hebrew Bible, Psalms, Epistles, and Gospels are given for
each week of the year, based on
a three-year cycle.
The Unbound Bible
is a collection of searchable
bibles, including Greek and Hebrew,
along with several reference texts.
Magazines and Weblogs
Credenda Agenda is a
bimonthly periodical exploring
all areas of life from a biblical,
classical Protestant perspective. The web site contains the full text
of the
journal.
First Things is
published by The Institute on Religion
and Public Life, an
interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose
purpose is to
advance a religiously informed public philosophy. The
web site has one or two articles from the current issue
online, as
well as the most of the articles from older issues.
Touchstone: A Journal of
Mere Christianity is
conservative in doctrine and eclectic in
content, with editors and readers from each of the three great
divisions of Christendom — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox. The web
site has full-text of selected articles.
Specialty Topics
Christian Classics Ethereal
Library Classic Christian books
in electronic formats,
currently located at Calvin College. Some are in specialty editions,
such as MP3,
Palm docbook, and Microsoft Reader, in addition to text.
Works include both early church writers and later
authors. For those
overwhelmed by the choices presented, there is a list of recommended
readings.
The Interview With God
is an
inspirational presentation by Reata Strickland, with landscape photographs,
and text.
The Labyrinths The
labyrinth
section of the Grace Cathedral (San Francisco) website includes an online
interactive
"finger labyrinth."
Veriditas - The Voice of the
Labyrinth Movement is
committed to reintroducing the labyrinth in its many
forms as a spiritual tool.
DISCLAIMER: These links are
provided as a helpful
resource. Inclusion of a link does not imply an
endorsement of the site nor of its owner or sponsor. The
First
Presbyterian Church of Wheaton is not responsible for information
found or materials
viewed as a result of links or connections
accessible from its web site.
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