In her new song 'Church Girl,' Beyoncé doesn’t just give church girls permission to dance, she also defends us.
YAAD Daniel Herron shares a moment where he saw the Spirit show up at GA225 and the hope he has for the church.
Teri McDowell Ott's editorial for Outlook's "Wrapping up a historic, hybrid General Assembly" issue.
Citing the all-women synagogue of Acts 16, the female leaders of the Philippian church and the “Mother of Quakerism” Margaret Fell, Rev. Aaron Neff argues that the Spirit does not discriminate against gender, humans do.
Rev. Greg Rapier looks at his son’s chicken-scratch drawings and sees something beautiful — holy, even. Perhaps creativity, whether it is in a child or adult, points to something greater.
In tribute to Rosemary Radford Ruether: Nov. 2, 1936 – May 21, 2022.
Andrew Taylor-Troutman, pastor of Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church, honors the work of the church's founding pastor Rev. Dr. Mindy Douglas.
Rev. Karie Charlton shares how she claims space as a female pastor.
Rev. Zeena Davis reflects on the spiritual and communal work of claiming space and claiming our voices.
Rev. Julie Raffety reviews Skye Jethani's book about four common perspectives in the American church that try to control God. In contrast, Jethani promotes the goal of having a relationship with God, simply for the joy of God.
Rev. Rebecca Gresham-Kesner shares her experience of being a woman in ordained ministry.
Rev. Eliza Jaremko shares how she is learning to keep house like Mary and Martha.
Rev. RJ Kang served as a commissioner of GA225 on the Addressing Violence in the USA Committee. Here, she shares one way she feels the committee misused its time, and why it is essential that teaching elders receive local training on how to support victims and survivors of domestic violence.
Presbytery Executive of the Presbytery of Chicago Rev. Dr. Craig M. Howard reflects on the changes he's witnessed in gender representation in the PC(USA), and the work that remains to achieve true equality.
Anghaarad Teague Dees, the first woman to serve as head pastor at Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, remembers all the women who have paved the way for her.
Lyon College Chaplain Maggie Alsup shares her ritual before each fall semester.
Ashley Brown, a seminary student working to become a PC(USA) minister, shares her first encounter with 1 Timothy 2:12, and how she has learned to wrestle with the Bible as a woman of faith.
Rev. Stephanie Sorge writes a love letter to her fellow clergywomen.
Rev. Karie Charlton shares how a book by Becca Stevens, founder of Thistle Farms, helped her to claim the holiness of female wisdom and arts and crafts.
A lot happened during this year's unprecedented General Assembly spanning three weeks in Louisville, Kentucky. With special thanks to our talented photographers Jonathan Watson and Gregg Brekke, Outlook captured some amazing pictures of this summer's hybrid assembly. Here are some of the highlights.
Rev. Katy Shevel processes her recent divorce through the lens of Ecclesiastes 3. Are we subject to the patterns of life? Or do we have agency in naming our own “seasons”?
A poem by Kathryn Lester-Bacon.
Rev. William E. W. Robinson wonders, how is it possible to be “in” the Spirit?
Beth Waltemath reviews Tallu Schuyler Quinn's memoir, written in the 18 months between her sudden diagnosis with glioblastoma, a terminal brain tumor that affected her sight and speech, and her death at age 42, in February of this year.
Angie Andriot, a research analyst for the PC(USA), paints a picture of the current state of women in leadership for the denomination using data. There is room to grow.
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