Treading carefully on a rippled and rifted sidewalk, I passed toothless pumpkins that grinned in the pre-dawn light. Once poured to provide..
I am back in an active search for another position. It has been 20 years since I was in the call process..
David Lee Jones explores how “parking lot meetings” reveal deeper issues of maturity, communication, and conflict in church leadership, using Bowen’s family systems theory.
It all started with a sign. One year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, The Episcopal Church of..
"And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." (Revelation 22:2) “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation..
Robert Hedges, a Presbyterian minister who leads the Resurrection Power recovery ministry in Washington, Pennsylvania, describes the work he does as “the..
I was baptized as infant in a white clapboard church in the rural Canadian Rocky Mountains. The week before I received the..
Andrew slid up to the table to speak to the chaplain at the Travel Center of America (TA) in Columbia, New Jersey...
St. Louis - Stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson articulated a vision for the 223rd General Assembly well before Presbyterians arrived in St...
Afriyie Maxine Huie dances. Ashley Armistead runs. Carvel Bennett teaches. This is how they spend much for their time. The wonder of..
The great Baptist theologian Carlyle Marney used the phrase “a priest at every elbow.” Marney was emphasizing a key theological insight in..
ST. LOUIS — Families who have suffered detention and separation from their children upon reaching the southern U.S. border have typically left..
Did you know that, but for the commissioners’ vote on the floor of a plenary session at General Assembly, our Presbyterian Church..
Motel 6 famously advertises, “We’ll leave the light on for you.” A clever slogan that embodies a sense of hospitality and home,..
To work for the transformation of society The two of us have spent the last two years (and longer) working in the..
The 223rd General Assembly will address issues of racial justice in the convention hall and on the streets. Look for it, weaving..
June 18, 2016, was the beginning of an excellent adventure. On election night at the 222nd General Assembly in Portland, Oregon, we..
“Go in peace, go in love, go with blessings from above. Help a friend, say a prayer for the children everywhere. Amen...
The Presbyterian Outlook asked those standing for co-moderator or moderator and vice moderator to share their sense of call as well as..
Adoption is the act of taking a child born to another woman and claiming that child as family. It is an act,..
Before my daughter arrived at toddler-hood, I read a lot about healthy toddler interactions. I read how to talk about sharing. (One..
There is good news to report! The majority of ministers ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the last decade were in..
In a previous Outlook article, I noted several key points about Murray Bowen’s family systems theory: It’s based on cellular biology, not..
The only big theme in this year’s constitutional overtures appears to be the broad spread of topics and proposed remedies. In the..
Every committee has at least one of them. We know who they are. They say “no” to everything. They are the..
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