People of the words: On humility
This week, Andrew Taylor-Troutman reflects on words that guide people of faith. Find his blog series here. Humble thyself in the sight of..
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People of the words: On endurance
This week, Andrew Taylor-Troutman reflects on words that guide people of faith. Find his blog series here. Romans 5:3 identifies the need for..
People of the words: On posture
This week, Andrew Taylor-Troutman reflects on words that guide people of faith. Find his blog series here. A friend was raised in..
The speaking gun
While preaching from the Gospel of Mark, Brian K. Blount, president of Union Presbyterian Seminary, used a word in his sermon to..
Little signs
This week we asked our bloggers to consider their experience of alcohol and church. Here are their reflections. With her typical wry..
Friends go gently between the words
I sat in the publisher’s brightly-lit office, fidgeting with my hands. First, I drummed my fingertips on the armrests of my chair...
Pentecost and building a “God Exists” list
After the rushing wind and the fiery tongues, after the amazement of the crowds and the preaching of Peter, I read that..
Laboring transitions
I prefer “transition” to “change,” for a transition implies intention. Change is our only constant. But “transition” means to go or cross..
All are included
We asked our bloggers to share their biggest dreams for the church. Here’s what they imagine. The 5-year-old exclaims, “There’s my friend!”..
Ministry hack: Write a little song
This week we asked the Outlook bloggers to share a “ministry hack” they’ve learned. Here’s what they shared. Oscar Wilde once lamented..
The mirror of love: Listening to 1 Corinthians 13
Love is patient, love is kind… The minister begins the reading from her leather-bound Bible, and the famous love ode in 1..
That something that happens
“Between the rupture of life and the rapture of language lies a world of awe and witness.” — Christian Wiman I was..
Toes
We asked our bloggers to share what they have learned about managing conflict in ministry. Here are their reflections. What should really worry..
A resolution to wonder
Whereas a year is a wondrous fleeting thing, and there is no time like the present and no present like the..
A witness: Reading Revelation in Advent
During this Advent, I am reading through the Book of Revelation every week. Sure, it’s a helter-skelter time for a pastor, but..
Outside boys
“Go outside. Look up. Secret of life.” – Anne Lamott My wife and I are raising our children only about 30 miles..
Surprised by flexibility
This week we asked our bloggers what younger pastors are thinking about and what they think the rising generation of Presbyterian leaders..
Mightily
This month we asked our bloggers about how they view the role of pastor, how they understand their pastoral identity, or to..
Pastor as saunterer
This month we asked our bloggers about how they view the role of pastor, how they understand their pastoral identity, or to..
Let’s say that we are more than our tragedies and our triumphs
Unlike that brashness of the snowcapped peaks out West, the Blue Ridge Mountains are elder statemen, gently sloped and quietly easing across..
A letter to watch over you
I was baptized as infant in a white clapboard church in the rural Canadian Rocky Mountains. The week before I received the..
You are special
My earliest memory of Dad’s church is autographing the Order of Service. A pastor’s kid knows not to call the paper the..
Peanut butter on both sides now
Somehow you forget what it was like. Your baby eventually does rip off five, six hours of sleep in a row and..
En el corpus
I did not get to watch Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri speak in Spanish as the newly elected co-moderator of the 223rdGeneral Assembly, being held..
The church speaks in tongues
Guest commentary by Andrew Taylor-Troutman The church speaks in tongues. I know you immediately think of what’s known as glossolalia, the strange..