Editorials Tipping point The commissioners and delegates need our prayers. They are feeling the weight of a load we are asking them to shoulder during..
Outlook Features Those other matters coming before the GA Some Presbyterians pay no attention at all to General Assembly — “What’s that,” they ask — while others drill all the way..
Outlook Features In a world of hurt: Justice issues coming to GA While the “big news” at this year’s General Assembly is likely to concern marriage issues, the ongoing struggle in the Middle East..
Outlook Features Outlook forum on special offerings: A bold goal: $20 million by 2020 { OUTLOOK FORUM } We have a problem. Special Offerings giving is down. In 11 years, giving has slumped 25 percent. In..
Voices Not Rotary club! It’s a cliche we’ve all read dozens of times, and maybe uttered with indignation — “The church is not a Rotary club!”..
Outlook Features Long-simmering divestment issue may come to a boil at 220th GA Among mainline churches, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has led the way in considering divestment as a means of defusing hostility and violence..
Outlook Features Report charts a course for the church through challenges of the 21st century The Special Committee on the Nature of the Church in the 21st Century got clobbered by reality. As its report states: »..
Voices People and policies in the more flexible church administration With the availability of increased flexibility to sessions provided by the New Form of Government (see my previous column, “New Flexibility in..
