With an influx of Christian immigrants from the global South coming to America, some writers forecast a more conservative American Christianity. Katherine Pater looks at statistics and Acts 8 to argue an inclusive future is possible.
For gun-owning Presbyterians, control is – and isn’t – a cut-and-dried issue, Leslie Scanlon finds.
David Lincicum makes a Christian case for repealing the Second Amendment.
What can poetry accomplish?
Otis Moss III wonders when we will love enough to recognize everyone’s right to live.
Gun violence prevention minister Deanna Hollas unmasks the powers behind the gun violence epidemic in the United States and provides proven actions you and your congregation can take to help save lives.
For her June 2023 editorial, Teri McDowell Ott goes to her local gun shop to learn a different perspective. Afterwards, she wrestles with fear and love.
Christopher Hays ponders where we can find hope in a worsening situation.
Karie Charlton offers three words of advice to churches charting a new path.
America’s caught in a cycle of fear and violence when it comes to guns, writes Elana Keppel Levy. Christians have an opportunity to pave a new way forward.
Too often, churches find that their crumbling buildings are standing in the way of their ministry. Where is God at work in this, Eliza Jaremko wonders?
The PC(USA) may be following in the footsteps of the once-popular department store, writes N. Graham Standish, but not if we think like entrepreneurs.
A poem by Scott Barton on Genesis 1:1–2:4a.
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Rebecca Gresham reflects on what she’s learned as the mother of a camper and a volunteer camp chaplain.
Where have you seen God recently?
The church’s potential to reach the younger generations depends on our ability to prioritize relational ministry over programmatic ministry, writes Aaron Neff.
“Grief makes all things new, just in the way no one wanted.” — Becca Messman
Phillip Blackburn encourages the PC(USA) to remember the vulnerable outside of the city — and for Presbyterians in rural areas to utilize the gift of community.
Maggie Alsup wonders if we should resist the urge to “go back to normal.”
"I had always felt firmly rooted in my Presbyterian identity yet drawn to ecumenical and interfaith spaces." — Eliza Smith DeBevoise
Mark DeVries and Trey Wince encourage a generational approach to innovation.
If a Bible is read in the forest and no one is there to hear it, is it still God’s Word?
The PC(USA)’s financial support system for pastors was built in the 1980s and doesn’t meet the church’s current needs and challenges, writes Board of Pension’s president Frank Spencer. We can change this if we adapt our understanding of church.
Episcopalian Jay Blossom wrestles with the holy symbols and contradictions displayed at the coronation of King Charles this past Saturday.
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