It can be incredibly powerful to think of confirmation for the young people in our congregations as a rite of passage –..
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) It’s nearing the end of summer..
A dozen years ago, Robert Reich, academic economist and secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, published a brief essay in The..
Jane Gray Suggs’s face beams as she shows off the picture of her late husband, Forest DeWitt Suggs Jr. It is a..
While sitting in a Catholic funeral recently, I was struck by the richness and depth of the liturgy. It said so much,..
What is “healing”? Doctors tend to emphasize one aspect of healing: physical healing. Counselors and therapists focus on a different aspect:..
When I directed the doctor of ministry program at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, we employed Bowen family systems theory in several ways...
As a Korean-American church was about to purchase a new building, its members raised a question about the future of the church...
In the late 19th century, Protestant Christians who sought to engage in foreign mission work carefully observed diplomatic developments in East Asia...
The first time Mihee Kim-Kort witnessed a female Korean-American pastor preach in the pulpit was in 2008. It was Grace Ji-Sun..
Every year, researchers visit the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia to access our extensive Korea mission collections. Many are individual scholars and..
When Beth Garrod-Logsdon, pastor at Wilmore Presbyterian Church in Wilmore, Kentucky, prepared to broach the subject of a sabbatical with the session,..
How will you feel if we decide to close? About 45 minutes into the interview for the solo pastor position at Kirk..
On any given Wednesday night in downtown Casper, Wyoming, a group of once-strangers gathers for a shared meal in a small retail..
The latest count: The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) now has 383 new worshipping communities, nearing the halfway mark of the denomination’s push to..
The cycle of General Assemblies bring with them a certain rhythm. And as we reach the midway point between the last GA..
We greet you with great hopes for our denomination and with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your co-moderators. By the..
When caring for persons who are living with a serious life-limiting illness such as cancer, we as pastors, chaplains and caregivers encounter..
Her head was wrapped in a bright orange and yellow tie-dyed scarf, a material that looked silky and shiny. The dark..
“In life and in death we belong to God. And life is a gift to be received with gratitude and a task..
My cancer story, like many others, started with a routine check-up. I turned 40 and dutifully scheduled my first mammogram. With..
Is there any other word in our language that causes the same emotional reaction as does the word cancer? To even say..
The idea is deceptively simple. When someone is diagnosed with cancer – a diagnosis that often overloads the mind and heart with..
Society generally views technology through a rational lens, judging technological products only insofar as they enhance convenience, or provide some new capability...
How do we make faithful sense amidst the racket and discord of digital media? How do we “pay attention” in these spaces?..
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