I spent January 1995 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with Uncle Jim, who was dying of AIDS. He was my mother’s younger..
During my first day in the physical office of the Presbyterian Outlook in Richmond, Virginia, George Whipple assured me of his support...
As a hospice chaplain, I provide emotional and spiritual support to patients and loved ones as they approach an end-of-life event. We..
Concerned with reports of increasing numbers of pastors experiencing burnout and depression due to exhaustion during the COVID-19 pandemic, McCormick Theological Seminary..
Growing up as an only child on a remote Tennessee cattle farm, my summers were spent largely within the confines of my..
My introduction to play happened during a season of exhaustion. As the solo pastor of one church and session moderator of five..
A couple of summers ago, during what seemed to be an endless summer (joke was on me it seemed; 2020 was just..
From March until December of 2020 – from Easter until Christmas – not a week went by without the death of someone..
We like to think what we do matters. Has an impact. Changes lives. But does it? I confess: I’m a “change..
“We are all failures — at least the best of us are.” — J.M. Barrie “Everything stinks till it’s finished.” — Dr. Seuss Who..
This is what often happens. Over the years, a Presbyterian congregation gets smaller and smaller, its remaining core of members get older..
Reading is a key part of our lives. Usually when a printed text catches our eye, we read it. Reading is such..
My first memory of a storybook includes the Fisher-Price record player, an illustrated version of “Snow White,” a tone to turn the..
I cannot remember how, as an adult, I first got my hands on “A Ring of Endless Light” by Madeleine L’Engle. My..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has enabled over 100 new calls in three years. It has done so..
Remember those Zoom meetings early in the pandemic when “you’re on mute” became our communal refrain? At the start of the COVID-19..
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri explores art as a form of spiritual practice.
God is experiential. This might be more easily embraced by Pentecostals than Presbyterians (and I’ve been both), but Scripture affirms this..
“Will you take care of this child?” The question caught DeEdra Clinkscale off guard. As a teacher, she had phoned the..
In the tradition of Murray Bowen’s systems theory, Peter Steinke authored “Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter..
This spring, the board of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary named Asa J. Lee as the seminary’s new president and professor of theological formation..
“What do you think is going to happen with churches after the pandemic?” To this question, prominent Christian researcher Diana Butler..
When he was a boy, Leonard Jackson caught the school bus every day next to the old cemetery at First Presbyterian Church..
Self-control! It sounds so very Presbyterian, doesn’t it? This is the final fruit of the Spirit listed by Paul in Galatians 5:23...
Interview by Jay Blossom In more than 20 years as a hospital chaplain, Beth McKee has ministered to people in many stages..
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