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..
Sam is a 45-year-old male who presents to the behavioral health clinic for initial evaluation of depressive symptoms and anxiety that have..
Guest Outpost blog by Alex Becker I used to be a runner. Back in elementary school, my parents thought it would be..
OUR COUNTRY IS IN TURMOIL due to the intense race between the presidential candidates. So my blessing to you is for discernment...
She talked about it in code. She would say things like, “You know, that time I spent at Camp Minnehaha.” Few knew..
Guest commentary by Wayne Sankarlal Much of the work that I do relates to small- and medium-sized churches. You know, the ones..
There are times when new directions emerge from meticulous planning and long-range processes, and there are times when new directions completely take..
I was riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a very rutted, dusty dirt road between Anse a Galets, a..
The year before men landed on the moon, I learned about the Holy Spirit in a small white church, sandwiched between a..
Her name was Grace. She was homebound when I started at my church. Actually she hadn’t been out of her house..
by Deborah Thompson Prince The church moves through Pentecost so quickly that it is difficult to do justice to the beauty and..
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