When I see the scions of wealth parade grandly through my town with, what I interpret as, smug entitlement on their faces,..
Editors' note: Please see below for the Spanish language version of this article. Many thanks to Aida Haddad and Alejandra Spir Haddad..
In Memory of Rev. Shannon O’Leary Tammy pounded her fist into her baseball glove: once, twice. The boys on the other side..
The prompt for this month’s blog on Outlook is about gratitude, inviting us to: “Make a list of 10 things that brought..
I have been voting in every presidential and state election since I was 18. But 2020 was the year God taught me..
“What are you most grateful for today?” I ask each member of my family every night.
The pandemic gods thought they had won by thinking they could say that touching and hugging were all bad so they took..
Last week, I found myself staring at a torn, yellowed page striped by paint and typeface with seven words marching down the..
I’ve always thought these should’ve been answered for me Until I confessed I hadn’t said anything And then left the sanctuary To..
It was my second year of seminary when I had the distinct honor of taking New Testament 1 with Frances Taylor Gench...
From November 2019 to June 2020, Pew Research Center conducted its first large-scale, nationally representative survey of Black Americans about their religious..
Oct. 4, 2021, is this generation’s “date which will live in infamy.” Okay, that may be a little drastic, but it definitely..
Congregations love to be together, as implied by the term.
I’m not sitting in my green La-Z-Boy, the chair I used to sit in to pray and write. It’s in the basement..
Gratitude is the way to go. Not only with the daily stuff – that too, of course – but at the end,..
I sometimes use a practice called the wheel of awareness, which I learned from reading Daniel J. Siegel, a clinical professor of..
I was disappointed to read Tish Harrison Warren’s New York Times editorial calling for a blanket ban upon online worship (“Why Churches..
During my first few months as the editor of the Presbyterian Outlook, I was often asked questions that I had no idea..
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a mom. Then, I learned I had a hormone condition that..
Before the pandemic, I was on autopilot all day, every day, preoccupied with everything and nothing at all. I was living in..
"When someone hurts us – especially repeatedly – we tend to merge the doer with the deed(s). To embody fire-hose forgiveness, we must unstick the deed(s) from the doer."
Tell us about yourself and your sense of call. What led you to apply to be our book review editor? When a..
Editor's note: The Outlook received word that Rev. Abel McIver “Mac” Hart, 93, of Black Mountain, North Carolina, passed away on Wednesday,..
Lauren Winner, author and Duke Divinity professor, told participants in a writing workshop to rework our sermons as sonnets as part of..
My Chicago neighborhood is known for its lively town square. The heart of the physical square is The Book Cellar, a locally-owned..
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