Painful legacies: Acknowledging the church’s role in atrocities at Indigenous boarding schools
The reckoning has already started in Canada, where the unmarked graves of hundreds of Indigenous children were discovered earlier this year —..
Leslie Scanlon is the former national news reporter for the Outlook. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
The reckoning has already started in Canada, where the unmarked graves of hundreds of Indigenous children were discovered earlier this year —..
Editor's note: The Outlook has received word that shortly after this article was published, Roy M. Nageak Sr. died at Mat-Su Regional..
This is what often happens. Over the years, a Presbyterian congregation gets smaller and smaller, its remaining core of members get older..
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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) budgets look good — at least for now. Plans for the $2.4 million renovation of the first floor..
In 2018, the General Assembly reconfigured the board that governs the corporate activities of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation — basically,..
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A church that centers those on the margins. A church that is willing to challenge structures of inequity — to not just..
In October, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board will be asked to vote on a restructuring plan for the Presbyterian Mission Agency —..
The Presbyterian Foundation is planning to file legal actions in secular court in Indiana and possibly Pennsylvania that could free up funding..
On paper, this might have seemed like a straightforward property transaction: On June 23, Cherokee Nation acquired about 200 acres in Sequoyah..
When he was a boy, Leonard Jackson caught the school bus every day next to the old cemetery at First Presbyterian Church..
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The stories of churches serving in a pandemic year are full of faithfulness. Faithfulness not defined as unfettered success, but as..
The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) has voted to ask for an exception to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s..
While I know I should be awash in appreciation for the sheer scientific wonder of these winged creatures – living underground for..
In 2019, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ordained Deanna Hollas as the nation’s first gun prevention minister — she’s the gun violence prevention..
Although the event itself is still a year away, decisions about the configuration of the 2022 General Assembly continue to unfold —..
Will spending $2.4 million in renovations on the Presbyterian Center in downtown Louisville, in order to hold a hybrid General Assembly with..
It will cost an estimated $2.4 million to renovate the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s office building in downtown Louisville to get ready for..
The Coordinating Table – made up of 15 top Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders – met via Zoom May 13 and reached consensus..
The next editor and publisher of the Presbyterian Outlook will be Teri McDowell Ott, a Presbyterian minister and current dean of the chapel at Monmouth..
The Presbyterian Mission Agency is about to enter an intense new phase of its Vision Implementation Process — creating a new structural..
The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board is deliberately shifting the way it does work — moving from focusing in its meetings mostly on..
Who are the 140 million Americans living in poverty, or in spitting distance to it? What are their lives like? What policies..
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