by Bill dePrater One morning my wife and I received a phone call from Katherine, our youngest daughter. “Dad, I am..
By Nina Simone With fall in full swing, Advent will soon be upon us. Busy as December is, Advent invites people into..
Guest commentary by Susan Phillips We give you thanks, Eternal G-d, for you nourish and sustain all living things by the gift..
Professor Amy Pauw, from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, wrote a piece recently on Ephesians 2:11-22 in which she made this observation: “An..
Church attendance in the United States is down. The mainline church seems to have lost its significance in American culture. The Presbyterian..
The only way I ever walked into a hospital room to visit the sick, or a home to meet with a bereaved..
Presbyterians, as Reformed Christians, are always on the lookout for resources that enlarge our knowledge of Christianity. Our learnings strengthen our..
Guest commentary by Robert L. Montgomery About 50 years ago I began an exploration trip into the social sciences in order to..
by Chris Keating As a resident assistant at Missouri State University, Jay Collier knows his job includes unlocking doors, calming nerves..
The church could learn a lot from Adele, and not just how to write hauntingly passionate songs. Adele was recently asked to..
by Tracy Howe Wispelwey In 2012 I took a pilgrimage to Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of protests over the shooting death..
by Gini Norris-Lane On a Monday night in November 2015, dancers were swirling around the area outside the main Schreiner University student..
Every August, a stream of first-year students from Lake Forest College walks across the street from their campus to our sanctuary...
I entered the sanctuary hoping to slip into a back pew, but the church was crowded. A summer Sunday during late June..
Guest commentary At a General Assembly luncheon in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2006, the then executive presbyter of Shenango Presbytery, David Dawson, introduced..
The Presbyterian Outlook is excited to introduce a new fundraising program to help you raise money for your local congregation - while..
Brown paper banners hung around the cavernous, stone auditorium. Names inscribed in black paint decorated the banners from ceiling to floor. Most..
Editor’s note: This year, the Presbyterian Outlook partnered with the Presbyterian Writers Guild in a short story contest called, “An experiment..
Most mornings I spend a couple of hours writing and working at the Pourhouse, a local nonprofit coffee shop. It’s a space..
There is a space between one word and another, a gap that yawns between truth and truth, between hands reached out to..
by Jason Brian Santos As the national director of UKirk (PC(USA) collegiate ministries), I’ve had the privilege of talking to a..
Guest commentary by Michael Isaacs In his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance tells an intertwined story of his life, the Eastern Kentucky-infused..
My memory is not what it used to be. I try not to panic about all the memorable moments that apparently weren’t..
By Diane Knauf “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” --Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer makes it clear that..
Guest Outpost blog by Samuel Son This week we asked our bloggers to share three things they would have liked to tell..
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