As a pastor, I have had many opportunities to visit local hospitals. As a part of my seminary training, I even spent..
Some Presbyterians write because they have to — those frantic Saturday night sprints, pounding out a sermon. Others write because they feel..
RECENTLY, I TOOK PART IN THE ORDINATION of one of our recent graduates. He was ordained in his home congregation in New..
by C. Christopher Smith The new creation that God is bringing forth is one that stands in contrast to the status quo..
Guest commentary by Beth Buckingham-Brown Language matters. More than we realize. The language we hear and the language we use shapes us,..
This month we asked our bloggers to share their thoughts on wearing vestments in worship. Here’s what they think. One of my..
This month we asked our bloggers to share their thoughts on wearing vestments in worship. Here’s what they think. One of the..
One hundred and fifty years ago the Van Dyck Bible was completed in Beirut in present-day Lebanon. According to David Grafton, a..
This month we asked our bloggers to share their thoughts on wearing vestments in worship. Here’s what they think. So there I..
During the past few years it has been fashionable to be openly critical of the Christian church in general and the Presbyterian..
As a tradition that says God is always in action among us, reformed and always being reformed, the grace of God calls..
by Carlton David Johnson Do something! This was the mandate facing Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary five years ago. JCSTS is one..
by David Gambrell At one end of the pew someone is whispering, “That communion liturgy felt so Catholic.” At the other, someone..
On the day that the gunman was subdued on a high-speed train heading into Paris this past summer, it just so happened..
I have been re-reading a book by Alister McGrath on the history of Protestantism. McGrath’s “Christianity’s Dangerous Idea” has given me some..
by Gary Neal Hansen Mention the Reformation and what do you think of? Theological opinions? Polemical positions? The phrase that ought..
by Jessica Tate Things are changing in North American mainline Protestantism. Harvey Cox calls it a “bumpy transition” into the “Age of..
by Cláudio Carvalhaes WHEN I TAUGHT AT LOUISVILLE SEMINARY, I had the chance to work with Christopher Elwood, a PC(USA) pastor and,..
Guest commentary by Cheyanna Losey In our rural congregation, there are times when death seems to come one right after another. During..
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Montreat’s Anderson Auditorium, almost 1,000 participants gathered to remember King’s message and consider..
This summer I spent time at Montreat Conference Center. I was lucky enough to be a recreation leader for two weeks of..
Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – the denomination’s top ecclesiastical officer – has announced that he won’t seek..
What makes for a life of substance? Put another way: At the end of the day or the end of our lives,..
Something there is that doesn’t love a tag line – that phrase you put on your letterhead just under the name of..
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there..
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