Monday, May 15, 2006
New Presbyterian leader for Lower Hudson Valley:
But she knows that if Presbyterian churches in the Lower Hudson Valley are going to play to their strengths — and stop losing members — they have to become known for something other than warbling old hymns and opening their doors to the local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
"The Presbyterian Church has not done a good job telling our story," she said. "We can offer spirituality as something other than a Pentecostal, born-again experience or rigid Catholic doctrine or right-wing, pro-life stuff. It's about an imaginative, metaphorical approach to faith, not a doctrinaire, rigid, biblically literal approach."
Andrews will soon have a chance to create a Presbyterian laboratory in New York. She has been chosen as the new leader of the Hudson River Presbytery, a regional, diocese-like body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that includes 92 congregations in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and five northern counties...
Andrews previously appeared in these pages here: 500 million Christians urged to divest - The See No Evil World Council of Churches, and here: Presbyterian-Jewish Dialogue with a Dash of Moral Equivalence wherein Andrews compared her experience at Yad Vashem with the "plight of the Palestinians." JAT has a page for her, here:
Rev. Andrews favors both divestment and the resolution demanding that Israel dismantle the security fence that has saved so many lives, calling those stances "bold and courageous stances related to peace in the Middle East, and particularly for the rights of Palestinian people... it has put us putting our money where our mouth is in terms of our very strong commitment to speaking up for justice for the Palestinian people."
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Oh, good grief.
The PCUSA rewards Israel-bashing with promotions.
No wonder the righteous flee for churches able to see the difference between good and evil.
Why does this surprise anyone?