“I can’t believe he said he was lucky.” My 16-year-old is processing our cab driver’s story. Wasim is a native of Libya..
Banana bread, coffee, a glass bowl of mixed nuts. These treats welcomed us into the large, cinderblock classroom. Every week a comforting..
Many groups, two sides, one right response Many groups converged on Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, but only two sides were represented: good..
AIDS, homelessness, wars fought at a distance and quickly, famine in far-off countries, marriages, deaths, cocaine addiction and alcoholism, divorce, youth struggling..
Fewer and fewer people I encounter have any idea what “Presbyterian” means. When, upon meeting someone, I am asked, “What do you..
This year’s Big Tent conference took place in St. Louis and had the theme, “Race, Reconciliation, Reformation.” As I prepared to go,..
I recently came across this quote attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold..
As I worked on this issue dedicated to how faith communities can best support those facing cancer, I read a lot of..
I read Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” while in seminary in the 1990s. His prescience blew my mind. First published in 1954,..
I have had the pleasure of hearing Philip Jenkins, the noted professor of history, lecture on a number of different occasions –..
Have you ever noticed how matter-of-fact Risen Jesus is with those who first encounter him? He says to the women in Matthew,..
Don’t you sell ads? Doesn’t the cost of my subscription pay for the magazine? Doesn’t the denomination partially fund the Outlook? The..
If often we in the church don’t have much to say about economics, Jesus sure does. The sermon on the plain, a..
I have held the last of what remains of an earthly life in my hands, whole people now only ashes, years of..
I remember repeatedly reminding my children that, as Christians, we believe in grace, not karma. One instance remains vivid in my memory...
Let’s start with fact that ignorance is unavoidable. Like sin, we can never escape the reality of our finitude. There will always..
Forget New Year’s resolutions, how about a commitment to renewed spiritual practices? Or, dare I say, disciplines? I know, I know… the..
As 2016 draws to a close I am filled with gratitude for God’s blessings. I have the joy of working with faithful,..
Friends, As 2016 comes to a close I am keenly aware of divisions: within families, churches and, of course, our country. The passing..
Black lives matter. I must begin there, and if I begin there then I must confess. I must confess that I was..
"Away in a manager, no crib for a bed." The beloved Christmas hymn came vividly alive to me one Advent when I..
On this #GivingTuesday, please consider making a financial gift to the Presbyterian Outlook. Last year, more than 45,000 organizations in 71 countries..
I don’t much like Thanksgiving. What’s not to like? There are the three F’s – food, family and football, not necessarily in..
I am tired of waiting for Jesus. The wrangling of a national election that had the tenor of a raunchy reality show,..
In the wake of the election, a Scripture passage has been coming to my consciousness over and over. It is from the..
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