Mary Crawford Brown : a memoir /

Mode of access: Internet.

Minutes.

Vols. for 1980- contain also 1981- statistics for the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Minutes.

Mode of access: Internet.

Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly ...

Report of each board has special t.-p. and paging.

Discours sur la nécessité de la force morale adressé aux members de "L'union Catholique",

At head of title: Union Catholique.

Report.

Mode of access: Internet.

An Address delivered in the Mercer Street Church at the funeral of the Hon. Benjamin Franklin Butler

Address

History of the Sycamore Associate reformed church, now United Presbyterian.

Mode of access: Internet.

Outline of a work of grace in the Presbyterian congregation at New Brunswick, N.J., 1837.

Mode of access: Internet.

Churches of the valley : or, an historical sketch of the old Presbyterian congregations of Cumberland and Franklin counties, in Pennsylvania /

Mode of access: Internet.

Ecclesiastical relation of Negroes : speech of Robert L. Dabney, in the synod of Virginia, Nov. 9, 1867, against the ecclesiastical equality of Negro preachers in our church, and their right to rule over white Christians.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the Presbyterian churches of the world, adapted for use in the class room,

Mode of access: Internet.

A narrative of the confinement and exile of William Steel Dickson, D. D., formerly minister of the Presbyterian congregations of Ballyhalbert and Portaferry, in the county of Down, and now of Keady, in the county of Armagh.

Mode of access: Internet.

Experiencing religious information literacy : informed learning in church communities

This paper reports an exploration of religious information literacy in terms of how people use information to learn in the context of church communities. The research approach of phenomenography was used to explore Uniting Church in Australia members' experience of using information to learn as participants in their church communities. Five ways of experiencing religious information literacy were identified, using information to learn about: growing faith, developing relationships, managing the church, serving church communities and reaching out beyond church communities. It is anticipated that such findings will be of interest to information professionals, including information literacy specialists, as well as leaders and members of church communities.

Lessons on sin and forgiveness : a crisis in the Roman Catholic Church

One of the greatest challenges facing the Roman Catholic Church (the Church) across the world continues to be found in addressing complaints of child sexual abuse (csa) by clergy. The list of Catholic clergy in Australia who have been criminally processed for sexual offences against children is disturbingly long. As disturbing as this list is, more disturbing are the accounts of clergy who have not been criminally prosecuted, but protected within the cloister of the Church. It is increasingly recognised that the significant difficulty with child sexual abuse in Catholic Churches, in particular, has not been the presence of perpetrators but the response of Church leadership to allegations of csa by clergy. Those who have faced criminal charges have often done so due to the resilience of victim/survivors and not because of the support of Church structures or culture. The Church has been slow to come to terms with the realities of the perpetration of csa by its clergy and even slower to recognise the need to prioritise victims in any effective, just response. The church has been slowest of all recognising that there are significant cultural and discursive challenges to confront in addressing the management of csa by clergy. There is, however, progressive recognition of the role that discursive constructs of forgiveness have played in perpetuating the crises and ultimately in perpetuating abuse. The institutional praxis of forgiveness can be demonstrated not only in the Church, but in lessons learned from use of forgiveness as an institutional response to mass violations of human rights. This paper explores the juncture between criminality, church culture and forgiveness in responding to csa by clergy.