“I have a dream that one day … the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be..
“God’s love never dies.” These words were spoken by a church elder, to fellow elders, in a time of crisis. The context..
The last two hours of the 2020 General Assembly tell a story of their own – a story about the nature of..
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.” Oddly, perhaps, in the church..
I left the 224th General Assembly questioning if our polity works in our fast-paced world. I wondered if assuming commissioners’ knowledge about..
Pastors typically experience tensions between what they see as their biblical role and the role imposed on them as leader of a..
We’ve asked several people to give us their plans for reading during the summer of 2020. Our hope was to give Outlook..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has a vision for the future. While COVID-19 has made the near future..
What are some of the lessons of the 2020 General Assembly? In a debriefing held June 30 following the just-concluded 2020 General..
One morning last fall, I excitedly headed to a local coffee shop to meet with one of our congregation’s college students, lamenting..
We had come to the real question: What about communion? The Lenten season of repentance was quickly accelerating into a time of..
The initial idea was this: introduce Presbyterians to the “squeegee kids,” mostly young black men who approach cars stopped at intersections in..
Imagine for a moment the General Assembly that wasn’t. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is preparing to launch into a virtual General..
While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and..
by Barbara G. Wheeler On Easter Sunday 2020, in the National Cathedral – empty except for the requisite “fewer than 10” musicians..
Gregory Bentley & Elona Street-Stewart Standing for co-moderators Gregory Bentley Teaching elder Presbytery of North Alabama Elona Street-Stewart Ruling elder Presbytery of..
As pastors and church leaders, we travel in and out of airports, train stations, even the local bus depots going to meetings,..
For two thousand years, the church has done a relatively good job of comforting bereaved people. Through ritual leadership, pastoral care, laments..
A few years ago, in the midst of the war in Syria, some 50 pastors from across the Middle East made their..
This issue is the fourth in a series of four exploring basic theological questions in ways designed to engender further discussion in..
What do we have to do with each other? This question may not be as simple as it seems. What do..
Never read the comments There is an adage in the social media lexicon: Never read the comments. Media outlets frequently curate their..
This issue is the third in a series of four exploring basic theological questions in ways designed to engender further discussion in..
While I was leading a church-sponsored trip, the father of a parishioner told me a family story. His two daughters had left..
Once upon a time, a professor of theology heeded the lasting wisdom of H. Richard Niebuhr. “Today,” he observed way back..
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