Insights columns Addressing pandemic anger: a Presbyterian psychiatrist’s perspective Family and friends, we live in extraordinary times. The pandemic wilderness of Greek alphabet variant soup is palpable and unrelenting. The global..
Insights columns Palm Sunday as a call to non-violence Matthew’s version of Palm Sunday (Matthew 21:1-11) is the only one of the synoptic Gospels to quote from Zechariah 9:9. What did..
Insights columns Retelling stories I read voraciously when I visited the Alamo a few months ago. History has never been my interest, despite marrying a historian...
Insights columns Global and local mission in the PC(USA) “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This Martin Luther King Jr. quote reminds us that the church must match their..
Insights columns Patience as an active waiting As my colleague explained the mechanics of muting and unmuting on Zoom for what seemed like the millionth time to the members..
Insights columns A call to gratitude When I see the scions of wealth parade grandly through my town with, what I interpret as, smug entitlement on their faces,..
Insights columns A new take on Outlook’s social media Oct. 4, 2021, is this generation’s “date which will live in infamy.” Okay, that may be a little drastic, but it definitely..
Insights columns An invitation to “simply be” Before the pandemic, I was on autopilot all day, every day, preoccupied with everything and nothing at all. I was living in..
Insights columns Using disruption for good Recently, the world opened up enough for me to accompany my son, a high school senior, on several college tours. Even though..
Insights columns Bearing the pain of others In the spring of 2016, I was laying on my back in a hospital bed at Duke University Medical Center. Sickness and..