Some Presbyterians write because they have to — those frantic Saturday night sprints, pounding out a sermon. Others write because they feel..
One hundred and fifty years ago the Van Dyck Bible was completed in Beirut in present-day Lebanon. According to David Grafton, a..
During the past few years it has been fashionable to be openly critical of the Christian church in general and the Presbyterian..
by Carlton David Johnson Do something! This was the mandate facing Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary five years ago. JCSTS is one..
by David Gambrell At one end of the pew someone is whispering, “That communion liturgy felt so Catholic.” At the other, someone..
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Montreat’s Anderson Auditorium, almost 1,000 participants gathered to remember King’s message and consider..
Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – the denomination’s top ecclesiastical officer – has announced that he won’t seek..
What makes for a life of substance? Put another way: At the end of the day or the end of our lives,..
I am pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Presbyterian Outlook church-college partnership essay awards. Seniors at Presbyterian-affiliated colleges were invited..
by Mickensie Neely There is a false yet pervasive myth that students graduating high school know what they want to pursue in..
By Helen Wilkins I was surprised to find myself calling Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, “home” in the fall semester of..
by Karen Wright Marsh This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask..
The people of South Carolina October 2015 A hard rain on dry ground, grief in torrents whelms and washes away all..
by Marilyn Washburn How do we care for those who grieve? Specifically, how can and should pastors do that care? Moreover, how..
poetry by Paul Hooker In memoriam, Rev. O. Floyd Hooker (1922–2014) We sat for ninety minutes in the room where he lay..
by Alex W. Evans The words of Psalm 46 are familiar to most of us: God is our refuge and strength, a..
by Magdalena I. García “Death will come, always out of season.” — Big Elk, Omaha chief It was a sizzling Sunday with..
by Rob Lohmeyer Where was the first funeral in Bible? How did it mark the occasion of death and what might it..
by Cynthia Campbell Not long ago, I was with a group of women who were asked to do several sentence-completion exercises. One..
In a sermon several weeks ago, one of my trustees narrated an encounter with a group of little children with whom she..
by Bradley Longfield and Beth McCaw Recently Heath Rada, moderator of the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), asked, “How might..
When the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) catalogs its institutional strengths — its polity, its considerable financial reserves, its many sturdy congregations — the..
My time at seminary seems like a lifetime ago – and it almost was, starting in the summer of 1978. When I..
by Cláudio Carvalhaes “Metaphor has the extraordinary power of redescribing reality.” — Paul Ricoeur “Ideology is a ‘representation’ of the imaginary relationship..
by Robert Hoch As we were about to process into church, the preacher of the day turned to me and confessed, “I’m..
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