A poem by Karie Charlton.
"There is a beauty when everything is in its correct place and we move from A to B. But that’s not how life works. I’m pretty sure that’s not how God works either."
"The Presbyterian church has given me so much: a voice, an unrelenting passion for making our world better, compassion for others, a deep appreciation for diversity. And on my bad days, when the news is filled with despair, I take heart in knowing that somewhere within the PC(USA), there’s a committee working faithfully to solve it."
Presbyterian Outlook shares our plans for covering the three-week General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Katy Shevel reflects on the lessons she learned in pastoring a small church and the value of these congregations.
Maggie Alsup, the chaplain at Lyon College, shares what she learns from college students as they celebrate Earth Day each year.
First Presbyterian Church and other churches in Waukon, Iowa, respond to global hunger.
Inspired by Austen Hartke’s Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
Roy Howard shares some of God's creatures found on the Galápagos Islands.
White Christians in the U.S., let this be a call not to contemplation but to action.
Rev. Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes reflects on the pressures Black women experience and the need for true White allyship.
Philosophy and experiential learning form a practical theology in the Tahoe Semester program.
The editorial from "Gathering as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): General Assembly 2022."
An op-ed by Kerri Allen and Lindley DeGarmo, the chair and vice-chair of the Mission Responsibility through Investment Committee, about the committee's role in a multipronged strategy to halt the impact of climate change.
A letter from the Presbyterian Outlook team.
Easter 7c Acts 16:16–34 We sang it yesterday with gusto; The old timers love it— and the new ones will; What, do..
In adrienne maree brown’s futuristic short story “the river,” a Detroit girl makes extra money by taking passengers on boat tours.
Activist, artist, and public theologian Tricia Hersey looks at the radical biblical instruction to rest and how claiming it can be a form of resistance.
We couldn’t be more excited to share our new digital platform with you.
“I am so glad you are Black.” That was Rev. Shanea Leonard’s response after joining the Zoom meeting and seeing my face.
"'There is always ‘a before’ that makes a beginning possible.' This afternoon, I charge you to re-member by recalling the “before” that makes this day possible."
We call on your protection — from spaces that do not always apprehend the image of God in us, from systems that do not uphold our dignity.
Trust Black Women. Builders of cities and nations. Women from ancient of days. Queens — Nzinga, Nefertiti, Sheba, and Cleopatra.
Most pastors were trained to be prophetic by tenured seminary professors who have typically never led congregational transformation. Graham Standish believes the Bible offers us a much better example of ministry in Acts: the apostolic model.
The Gospels record that Jesus chooses when he makes himself known after his resurrection. He is perceived as a gardener or a..
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