(ENI) Vatican critic Hans Küng has warned against “condemning the church and its priests wholesale” for the current spate of sex abuse allegations.
On April 21, 2010, facing the mayor of Rome and a room full of civic leaders, the press, and scholars, a series of former victims of horrific crimes came forward and testified that they had forgiven their tormentors.
The rain is falling in torrents so heavy that I cannot see the end of my street (May 1, 2010, the weekend of the Middle Tennessee flood).
When an interim pastor showed up for work at a congregation in Queens, a borough of New York City, she thought the congregation had already died.
I saw my father dead once. He was in his casket, but the undertaker had put the wrong face on him. In death Dad wore an odd smirk that I never saw in life.
Not long ago I was dashing from a lunch meeting in Lower Manhattan to the nearest subway station when two well-dressed young men approached me, both with side-locks and the broad-brimmed hats that some Orthodox Jewish men wear.
The wedding season is upon us! Given the large number of single female Ministers of Word and Sacrament, I am amazed that I am one of this year’s brides.
Of the three venues for Multichannel Church — on-site, off-site and online — “the greatest of these” is online.
My friend Peggie was in her 50s when she answered God’s call to ministry. She’s active in the local church, serves on the leadership team, preaches on occasion, and is naturally gifted in evangelism.
Will it play in Peoria?”
TPO: In your opinion, what is the most significant matter to come before this General Assembly, and how do you propose that the Assembly respond to it?
The report going to the General Assembly cuts to the quick. It affirms the denomination’s determination to be faithful to the teachings of Scripture and the Reformed tradition, but it admits that the effort to define what constitutes such faithfulness “has created significant debates among us.” It laments, “These debates (have) both clouded understanding of our mission and inhibited cooperative participation in it.”
interview by Jack Haberer, OUTLOOK editor
Linda Valentine has been re-elected by the General Assembly Mission Council (subject to confirmation by the 219th General Assembly) to serve a second four-year term as executive director – the chief of staff to most of the denomination’s national and international staff. Editor Jack Haberer sat down with Linda Valentine to talk about her first term and to look ahead.
Perhaps the most stunning piece of business coming to the 219th General Assembly is Recommendation 42 proposing to create a commission (the..
I remember a story my mother often told me. As a late teenager, she read in 1 John 4:7 that God is love, and concluded that God was nowhere to be found in the church in which she was raised.
Editor’s note: The Presbyterian Outlook will confer the E.T. Thompson Award for lifetime achievement in service to our Lord, the church and world to Syngman Rhee at its General Assembly luncheon banquet on July 3. Louisville Seminary President Dean Thompson prepared this tribute.
the silence in the coastal communities
is almost deafening,
Perhaps the most difficult principle for the Multichannel Church to implement is moving some activities and ministries off site, out into neighborhoods and homes.
My friend Molly T. Marshall is accustomed to controversy.
Today’s my birthday. Forty years young, spiritually speaking.
Throughout much of the modern era, Christian educators, along with most modern people, assumed a linear process for Christian education starting with Biblical and theological scholars handing on their scholarship to teachers, who, in turn, effectively passed it on to students, who, ostensibly, learn and change their behavior.
It may not come as a great a shock to the Outlook to know that this reader seldom files for future reference most copies of this publication.
In an October 8, 2009, Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, Paul Krugman opines:
What’s actually new about a Multichannel Church?
If ever I were totally convinced and totally unconvinced, it’s right here and right now: on the matter of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) speaking out regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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