Guest commentary from Leanna Fuller Two weeks ago, well-known pastor Mark Driscoll resigned from Mars Hill Church, a Seattle-based mega-church. Whether or..
ARE THERE SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD BABIES, or perhaps your own grandchildren, whom you wish had more connection to church? That the parents of..
I figure 1957 was the high-water mark of mainline Protestantism in the U.S. Although mainline churches kept growing until 1965, it..
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” The apostle John’s vision of God’s infinitude is..
I have often wondered if, in the two days following Christ’s crucifixion, Peter and James and John – the three whom Jesus..
The following is an edited version of a conversation the Outlook’s Leslie Scanlon had with theologian Marcia Mount Shoop, a Presbyterian Church..
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA. ASC has received a $2 million grant from The Goizueta Foundation for two new programs: the Goizueta..
OUTLOOK COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP AWARD RUNNER-UP ESSAY BY MCKENNA LEWELLEN I GREW UP IN A CULTURE that placed a premium on intelligence, until..
OUTLOOK COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP AWARD WINNING ESSAY BY HANNAH RASMUSSEN FAMILY MEMBERS WARNED ME of Macalester’s secular reputation. It’s true that the religious..
As I finish my Clinical Pastoral Education residency, I've been working as a pulpit supply preacher for Park View Christian Church, a..
by Davina C. Lopez and Todd Penner Since 2012, a select group of chaplains and Bible professors at Presbyterian-related colleges has explored..
As moderator of the 221st General Assembly of the PC(USA), I am having the remarkable privilege of traveling the country and meeting..
He’s the new guy. So it will take some time for Jason Brian Santos, the new associate for collegiate ministries for the..
NOT LONG AGO I WAS TALKING with a young adult about a choice that faced me. When I told him I was..
Most congregations are interested (if not desperate) to have new people attend worship and eventually join the church. The problem is that..
Earlier this year when I read about — and then read — the “Zionism Unsettled” report on sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,..
by Richard H. Dorman When a small group of Westminster College undergraduate students petitioned to start a campus chapter of a national..
Nine years ago, when reporting for duty to serve as the new editor of the Presbyterian Outlook, I carried ulterior motives in..
by John Bruington Some five years ago I was riding with some other pastors in the beautiful Bob Marshall Wilderness [known locally..
by William Yoo My family recently relocated to a new city. We packed up our belongings and bid farewell to the house..
by Steve Nofel I ranted, but my corgi-lab mix friend, Lexi, didn’t seem to care one way or another. It began early..
by Robert Johnson As a Presbyterian teaching elder for the last 26 years, and a church member all my life, I have..
We are living in the “age of the unthinkable,” declared Australian keynote speaker Alan Hirsch to 1,200 American Presbyterians who also bear..
Church leaders often worry that Sunday morning is the ”most segregated day of the week.” On Sunday, churchgoers gather inside congregations that..
by Laird Stuart For a number of years I taught a course at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary on parish administration and leadership. At..
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