Parents, ministers and other caregivers who love teenagers can sometimes wonder if Johnny or Janie have a brain in their heads. Reasonable..
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The Gospel of Mark begins … Jesus announces … … about this good news? The eleven members of First Presbyterian Church’s confirmation..
On New Year’s Eve, I went hiking with a good friend of mine at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest near Asheville, NC...
Little has appeared in the Outlook to date about the recommendations of the Special Offerings Advisory Task Force which were approved by..
The commissioners and delegates need our prayers. They are feeling the weight of a load we are asking them to shoulder during..
Some Presbyterians pay no attention at all to General Assembly — “What’s that,” they ask — while others drill all the way..
While the “big news” at this year’s General Assembly is likely to concern marriage issues, the ongoing struggle in the Middle East..
{ OUTLOOK FORUM } We have a problem. Special Offerings giving is down. In 11 years, giving has slumped 25 percent. In..
It’s a cliche we’ve all read dozens of times, and maybe uttered with indignation — “The church is not a Rotary club!”..
Among mainline churches, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has led the way in considering divestment as a means of defusing hostility and violence..
The Special Committee on the Nature of the Church in the 21st Century got clobbered by reality. As its report states: »..
With the availability of increased flexibility to sessions provided by the New Form of Government (see my previous column, “New Flexibility in..
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