by Theresa Cho The 222nd General Assembly in Portland will soon be upon us. If you are a commissioner to this year’s..
I will admit that I have been somewhat disengaged from the 2016 political process – partly for reasons of disillusionment and my..
Guest commentary by Wilson Gunn Please grab your Book of Order. I’d love to be less BOOish – but this is, plain..
I got my first tattoo when I was serving as the youth director at a small Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida. The..
SEVEN YEARS AGO, one of Austin Seminary’s most beloved professors retired. He was a man of uncommon integrity — an ethicist, a..
Did Presbyterians play a significant role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s? The short answer is “yes.” As in confronting..
It’s very personal, why people choose to get tattoos and the stories behind the images they select. For some people, their faith journey..
Guest commentary by Kurt Esslinger I first started thinking about getting a tattoo in college. I knew I didn’t want to take..
This is the story of a tattoo. It begins in a French village at the base of the Pyrenees Mountains and ends..
by Kerra Becker English Far from love the Heavenly Father Leads the chosen child; Oftener through realm of briar Than the meadow..
IT’S NO NEWS TO ANYONE that for decades our denomination has been roiled in conflict. This is neither unexpected nor shameful; instead,..
After serving dozens of churches as a pastor or consultant, I have concluded that there is no single formula for health. There..
Child of the covenant, you have been sealed by the Holy Spirit in baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever.” These words..
Guest commentary by Donald McCall It happened on a Sunday Morning. I was sitting in our usual pew in church next to..
by Danielle Estelle Ramsay Human beings are born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. –Job 3:7 In the book of..
Guest commentary by Christian Iosso After the 221st General Assembly in 2014, a state department official suggested that we not call..
Guest commentary by Emily Brewer As the afternoon slowly turned to evening in January 2014, the 28 of us on the Presbyterian..
Guest commentary by John Wimberly A paper on Israel-Palestine, recently produced by an Advisory Committee for Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) study team,..
by Sarah Griffith Lund The tears were ancient, welling up from generations of silence. As Jack, an octogenarian with a smart red..
The Defense Department maintains the numbers of those killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Enduring Freedom and in New Dawn and..
Guest commentary by Clay Allard When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s, I watched my father..
Guest commentary by Jim Allison The 222nd General Assembly will face the issue of climate change and our response. The agenda includes..
Guest commentary by Abby Mohaupt and Dan Terpstra One of our core beliefs as Presbyterians is that we are called to love..
by Kenneth Phelps Parents of a 4-year-old with autism and intellectual impairment find themselves preoccupied with how their gregarious boy is behaving..
Both less and more than family and good friends, still you belong there at the high moments and low, included in the..
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