(To my friends at Central Presbyterian Church) I was lost. I didn’t know it. I thought I had it all together. I..
“Language is a living thing, and when it dies, it leaves bones.” Maria Dahvana Headley writes this line in the introduction to..
I nurse my newborn son and run the shower. His breath knocks against the night air, nose clogged by a cold. I..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has enabled over 100 new calls in three years. It has done so..
I think it was about this time last year that I confessed here on the Presbyterian Outlook blog that I didn’t have..
Quarantine is a period of social isolation to help arrest the spread of disease. Turns out, it is also apparently the time..
Guest commentary by Matt Matthews “To be quiet, even wordless, in a good place is a better gift than poetry.” —Wendell..
Remember those Zoom meetings early in the pandemic when “you’re on mute” became our communal refrain? At the start of the COVID-19..
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri explores art as a form of spiritual practice.
One year I took a 4 a.m. Christmas morning airport shuttle alone with a sweet driver. “Merry Christmas,” he said and handed..
Growing up in Oklahoma, I had a complex relationship with how I learned about Indigenous people and land — about how we..
Guest commentary by Paul Hooker As I write these words, the news is coursing around the internet that Simone Biles, American gymnast..
On a hot summer Friday night, 30 millennials, a few seasoned saints and a couple of kids gathered in the basement of..
In Ana Menéndez’ book ‘’In Cuba I was a German Shepherd,’’ Máximo, a Cuban immigrant, tells a joke about Juanito the dog..
God is experiential. This might be more easily embraced by Pentecostals than Presbyterians (and I’ve been both), but Scripture affirms this..
A few years ago, when I found myself creatively stuck, my writing coach encouraged me to visit the art gallery on the..
The church gets it wrong sometimes when it comes to food allergies. I learned this about 15 years ago. I have a..
Around seven years ago, due to a health crisis, I became sensitive to a long list of foods. While I’ve added back..
Guest commentary by Glenn Burkland In leading and attending Bible studies over the years, I have noticed one topic that eventually makes..
“Will you take care of this child?” The question caught DeEdra Clinkscale off guard. As a teacher, she had phoned the..
In the tradition of Murray Bowen’s systems theory, Peter Steinke authored “Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter..
This past year has been marked by loss: Loss of loved ones and friends, loss of community and social gatherings, loss of..
Guest commentary by Jim Chatham When I was in high school, I occasioned now and then into the home of a woman..
This spring, the board of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary named Asa J. Lee as the seminary’s new president and professor of theological formation..
A generation goes, and a generation comes. (Ecclesiastes 1:4) For decades, my maternal grandmother made dozens of crescent rolls every week. Gran’s..
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