Luke 24:1-12 Easter Year C The women wasted no time doing the business death requires. I know these women, don't you? In every congregation I've served, as soon as I learned of the death of a church member, I picked up the phone and called the president of the Presbyterian Women group. She in turn called up other women who would then get busy making pimento cheese sandwiches, purchasing mixed nuts and making sure the punch bowl and cups were cleaned and ready for the reception that would follow the memorial service or funeral. In some churches there were women who lined up ushers for the service, typed and copied the bulletin and played the organ. Others made casseroles and delivered them to the family's home, ensuring all those coming in town would be fed for days. The women, and some men, too, took care of the details that must be tended to by the living in the wake of death. Often the one in the casket or urn was beloved by those making sure the reception was beautiful … [Read more...]
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Looking into the lectionary 13 hours ago
Resurrection of the Lord/Easter Sunday — April 21, 2019
Luke 24:1-12 Easter Year C The women wasted no time doing the business death requires. Jill Duffield’s lectionary reflections are sent to the Outlook’s email list every Monday. I know these women, don’t you? In every congregation I’ve served, as soon as I learned of the death of a church member, I picked up the phone and called the president of the Presbyterian Women group. She in turn called up other women who would then get busy making pimento cheese sandwiches, purchasing mixed nuts and making sure the punch bowl… continue reading... -
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Prayer for Good Friday
My God, my God, why have you forsaken your Son? How can you tolerate the suffering of the One who came to save? How can it be that He who brought abundant life has been sentenced to a cruel death? Hear our lament. Stand with us in our sorrow. Sit with us in the dark. Remind us of our Savior’s promise that we will see him again. Grant us the strength to get through the night in the hope of a new day. Amen. continue reading... -
Outlook Reporting 2 days ago
Presbyterian Outlook recognized at Best of the Christian Press Awards
CHICAGO — The Presbyterian Outlook received top honors in several categories at the Associated Church Press (ACP) 2019 annual conference in Chicago last week. The ACP awards recognize excellence in faith-based media — including magazines, news services, online media and podcasts. The Presbyterian Outlook was commended at the ACP “Best of the Christian Press Awards,” receiving: Best in class: Denominational magazine. Best in class blog: Outlook Outpost blog, featuring voices of younger Presbyterian leaders. Here are three of the posts the judges considered: My children aren’t part of my résumé by Rachel Young. The correct… continue reading...
Parties in Stamford case had tried to expedite process in order to get a ruling on the merits of the case January 1, 1995 Uncategorized84 views The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission -- in sidestepping the question of exactly how deeply a session should be required to probe into the private life of a gay elder who has acknowledged being in a committed, life-long relationship but has declined to say whether he is sexually active -- has put the question off but has not put it to rest.- Ministering with the Earth January 1, 1998 Book Reviews56 views By Mary Elizabeth MooreChalice. 1998. 226 pp. Pb. $19.99. ISBN 0-8272-2323-4 Ministering with the Earth is a quiltwork, both the on-the-ground activity and Moore's book about so ministering. Moore, professor of theology and Christian education at Claremont School of Theology, is fond of the metaphor, suitably pastoral and feminist.
- Remembered Voice: Reclaiming the Legacy of 'Neo-Orthodoxy' January 1, 1998 Book Reviews53 views By Douglas John HallWJKP. 1998. 145 pp. Pb. $18. ISBN 0-664-25772-0 It was in this order. I first read Tillich's Dynamics of Faith. Riveting. Next came The Courage to Be. Gripping. Then I went back and read the first volume of the Systematic Theology. Things began to make sense. Next came Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality. Positive.
Appointments to General Assembly Special Commissions, Committees, Task Forces, and Task Groups Continue March 19, 2019 Presbyterian News Service2 comments (OGA) The special committees reviewing the current per-capita based system of funding and reviewing national church financial sustainability have been combined into one, fifteen-member special committee by Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri and Cindy Kohlmann, Co-Moderators of the 223rd General Assembly (2018). The combined special committee allows the opportunity to facilitate efficiency and leverage the information needed by both groups while still providing necessary members and expertise for each discrete function.
The Special Committee on Per-Capita Based Funding and National Church Financial Sustainability ...- Presbyterian Outlook recognized at Best of the Christian Press Awards April 18, 2019 Outlook Reporting1 comment CHICAGO — The Presbyterian Outlook received top honors in several categories at the Associated Church Press (ACP) 2019 annual conference in Chicago last week. The ACP awards recognize excellence in faith-based media — including magazines, news services, online media and podcasts.
The Presbyterian Outlook was commended at the ACP “Best of the Christian Press Awards,” receiving:
Best in class: Denominational magazine.
Best in class blog: Outlook Outpost blog...
Serving the world at a truck stop August 7, 2018 Outlook Features1 comment Andrew slid up to the table to speak to the chaplain at the Travel Center of America (TA) in Columbia, New Jersey. He had been eavesdropping on a conversation the chaplain was having with a group of elders and pastors who were visiting from Kenya to learn about the truck stop ministry that had been active there since 1985.
“I overheard you talking about the needs of drivers. There are things you should know,” he told the group. “Drivers need chaplains. This is a secret society. We’re all looking for a cave — no real attachments; we avoid relationships. We don’t want to be hurt.” He further explained...
Resurrection of the Lord/Easter Sunday — April 21, 2019
Prayer for Good Friday
My God, my God, why have you forsaken your Son? How can you tolerate the suffering of the One who came to save? How can it be that He who brought abundant life has been sentenced to a cruel death? Hear our lament. Stand with us in our sorrow. Sit with us in the dark. Remind us of our Savior’s promise that we will see him again. Grant us the strength to get through the night in the hope of a new day. Amen. … [Read more...]
Walls
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall …” So begins Robert Frost’s famous poem “Mending Wall” from 1914 — musing on presumably his neighbor’s aphorism, inherited from his father, that “good fences make good neighbors.” There is, to be sure, something wonderful about walls. My wife Kay and I enjoy a wall of brick and wood that surrounds the backyard of the manse in which we live. Above it peek the second stories of houses surrounding us, and within it we have delicious privacy. There are terraces and large oak trees (one of them sporting a swing). Elsewhere in the heavily Spanish-influenced architecture of this region, there are mossy walls that embrace urban patios, often richly decorated with sculptures and mobiles and covered in bright foliage. You can walk past blocks and blocks of such adobe walls and peek through iron gates that give a glimpse of joyful outdoor meals or happy hours. These are not menacing walls; they radiate domesticity and hospitality. Some walls, … [Read more...]
God with us (Horizons 9)
“God’s Promise: I Am With You” Lesson 9: God with us Matthew 18:15-20; 28:16-20 Sometimes unhappiness and discouragement taint our actions. I’ve found that to be true for me. Years ago, I attended a board meeting of a nonprofit organization that assists homeless women and children. I was cranky, negative and probably obnoxious. The executive director of the organization came to see me after the meeting and we sat down together. Her first words were, “How are you doing?” It was a terrible time in my life and I told her some of what was going on. After a time, she gently said that I had offended other board members. I thought about my behavior and realized that it was true. Her coming to me was a tremendous gift because it gave me the opportunity to immediately apologize and amend my behavior. The director’s actions were exactly what Jesus taught us to do. She took the initiative to come and let me know of my offense. She did so with kindness, which made it much easier for me to … [Read more...]
Tackling tough topics
When I trained to be an emergency medical technician, this was a paramount lesson: Identify the life threats. Your patient might be complaining about a sore shoulder, but if blood is spurting from a ruptured artery, deal with the bleeding first. Don’t pursue the problem you understand, like splinting a bone, but fail to see the problem you don’t understand, like inhalation of toxic fumes. When well-meaning believers want to work on having conversations about tough topics, we need first to see what is truly tough — not the issues that make us squeamish or angry, but the issues that are life-threats: the ones destroying human lives and drawing our neighbors and us into the orbit of evil. We will disagree on what the tough topics are, but one thing is clear: Tackling the issue we tackled last year just because we know how to have that conversation is a mistake. The point isn’t to get better at having a conversation, but making sure we are talking about the right things. I know … [Read more...]
Black women cracking ‘stained-glass ceilings’ with Jesus’ 7 last words
(RNS) — Days before Good Friday, the Rev. Stacey Hamilton continued to contemplate what she would preach about some of the last words of Jesus: “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Hamilton, one of seven black women preaching at “Women With a Word,” a service hosted by the Fellowship of Churches of Atlantic City and Vicinity at Faith Baptist Church in Pleasantville, N.J., prayed and did her “due diligence” by studying the meaning of the passage’s original Greek as she prepared to write her sermon. In a growing tradition, at least a dozen churches across the country are hosting Good Friday services this year that feature seven African American female preachers, expounding in seven short sermons on the last seven phrases uttered by Jesus before his crucifixion. “It’s a big deal because historically black women have been underrepresented,” said Hamilton, associate pastor of innovation and engagement at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville. “There’s … [Read more...]
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