“Why does our country want you here but your country doesn’t want us there?” This was the innocent question that Panchito, my..
The following is an edited version of a conversation the Outlook’s Leslie Scanlon had with theologian Marcia Mount Shoop, a Presbyterian Church..
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA. ASC has received a $2 million grant from The Goizueta Foundation for two new programs: the Goizueta..
OUTLOOK COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP AWARD RUNNER-UP ESSAY BY MCKENNA LEWELLEN I GREW UP IN A CULTURE that placed a premium on intelligence, until..
OUTLOOK COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP AWARD WINNING ESSAY BY HANNAH RASMUSSEN FAMILY MEMBERS WARNED ME of Macalester’s secular reputation. It’s true that the religious..
by Davina C. Lopez and Todd Penner Since 2012, a select group of chaplains and Bible professors at Presbyterian-related colleges has explored..
He’s the new guy. So it will take some time for Jason Brian Santos, the new associate for collegiate ministries for the..
by Richard H. Dorman When a small group of Westminster College undergraduate students petitioned to start a campus chapter of a national..
by John Bruington Some five years ago I was riding with some other pastors in the beautiful Bob Marshall Wilderness [known locally..
by William Yoo My family recently relocated to a new city. We packed up our belongings and bid farewell to the house..
by Steve Nofel I ranted, but my corgi-lab mix friend, Lexi, didn’t seem to care one way or another. It began early..
by Robert Johnson As a Presbyterian teaching elder for the last 26 years, and a church member all my life, I have..
We are living in the “age of the unthinkable,” declared Australian keynote speaker Alan Hirsch to 1,200 American Presbyterians who also bear..
by Laird Stuart For a number of years I taught a course at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary on parish administration and leadership. At..
by Shane Berg, Donald M. Vorp, John Andrew Newgren and Gregory Murray Libraries, since their inception, have focused their efforts on two..
When the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary pulled out of the Interdenominational Theological Center this past June 30th, disapproval..
by Nancy Benson-Nicol Since 1986, when the Theological Education Fund (TEF) was established by the 198th General Assembly, we in the ministries..
JACK HABERER: Jim, your credentials are impressive: a teaching elder in the PC(USA); current professor of church history and dean at Vanderbilt..
“Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. was only a..
The number one goal at summer camp for my teenage son, Garrison, was to skipper a Lightning, a 19-foot-long fully rigged sailing..
PASADENA, CALIF – “I was 18 years old when God called me to America,” explained Sam Theophylus, born in Hyderabad, India. “I didn’t know what it..
Most American churches have sought to diversify their membership in recent decades so that that the 21st century faith community would better..
In 2010, the General Assembly approved an authoritative interpretation (AI) that included the following statements: “Neither the General Assembly nor the GAPJC..
What’s next for mid councils in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? That’s still to be determined, as the decisions the 2014 General Assembly..
by Jacob Bolton I was learning about compost. I’d never composted before, but a member of the church I serve informed me..
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