’Tis the season
Merry Christmas from all your friends at The Presbyterian Outlook!
Merry Christmas from all your friends at The Presbyterian Outlook!
By a very close margin, San Francisco Presbytery voted Nov. 10 to permit the ordination of Lisa Larges, a lesbian who has sought for more than 20 years to become a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Mark Achtemeier, an evangelical theology professor from Iowa, is in many ways an unlikely candidate for radical change. He’s a white, middle-aged Presbyterian father and husband who grew up in the church, the son of Biblical scholars.
Sometimes, in trying to figure out what a new thing means in the world, people look to the past for explanations.
Freshly graduated from a Presbyterian seminary, the young pastor dreamed of creating a retreat center, a place of prayer for a community of faith. Touched by his experience with the Taizé community, he yearned to do graduate study in Europe in preparation for this dream.
Perhaps more than any other figure in Scripture, Mary has held the expectations and norms of humanity with a complicated tenacity.
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
The dawn from on high will break upon us … to guide us in the way of peace (Luke 1:78-79).
So how will you spend Christmas afternoon? The one thing I don’t miss now that I’m no longer serving as a congregation’s pastor, is the way I used to spend Christmas afternoons.
GENEVA (ENI) — The life of Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, an English Presbyterian instrumental in the creation of the united Church of South India and who played a key role in the World Council of Churches, is being commemorated 100 years after his birth.
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Remember that book How to Win Friends and Influence People? Let’s just say that Duke University ethicist Stanley Hauerwas has been hugely influential, but that doesn’t mean his salty tongue has made him a lot of friends along the way.