I’ve glimpsed the easy business of power, God, and I am frightened. It consumes the needs of the poor like an appetizer,..
Guest commentary by Lou Nyiri A father was deep in thought as his child excitedly conveyed something important. The father acknowledged this..
My wife and I are due during Holy Week of 2021. We’re both full-time co-pastors, which means our kid isn’t just a..
Pastors find a place in my prayers every day, both those known to me and the many who are not. Pastoral ministry..
“A garden’s a prideful thing!” When he spoke those words, this parishioner and I were gazing upon his rows of vegetables. Leafy..
Friends, Ever since the founding of #GivingTuesday in 2012, nonprofits, small businesses, schools and faith-based organizations all over the world have mobilized..
How do we listen to one another in a fractured world? Our society is polarized by increasing partisanship. According to the Pew Research..
Not to be too sensationalist, but when the sky is falling, what does gratitude look like? To my ears, the language of..
These thanks we give fit best with simplest things, the ordinary benisons we scarcely note as our times go fleeting past. This..
You’ve seen the pleas from the CDC: “Spend Thanksgiving with just your immediate household this year.” My sister called me this week and..
I am not sure if it is true for you, but for me, grace and gratitude are hard to find these days...
The post on my public Facebook page from the man I did not know started out innocently enough. George said that..
Guest commentary by Nelson Reveley John 11:35 reads: “Jesus wept.” Specifically, this is Jesus’s reaction to the death of Lazarus. More broadly,..
Dear Outlook reader, To introduce myself: In June of 2019, I retired from 17 years of service as the senior pastor of..
What is your relationship to social media? What about the congregation’s use of social media? I confess to having a love/hate relationship..
The newish pastors group in my presbytery is reading “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going” by Susan..
Dear Presbyterian Outlook reader, On behalf of the Presbyterian Outlook Foundation Board of Directors I am pleased to share the news that..
Undergirding the well-worn wisdom of “Give folks a fish and nourish them for a day, teach folks to fish and nourish them..
I love being a ministry coach because I get to be present for people’s aha! moments. Sometimes, the things I say or..
America is being smothered by multiple traumas. The COVID-19 pandemic – which has taken over 200,000 lives in America and thrown..
I preach about God’s grace on the regular. I make it a point to remind people that this big, generous, expansive grace..
As I wrote this article in my guest-room-turned-shared-office, the following distractions occurred: Screaming children refusing to do homework. Barking dogs. Lawn mowers..
Guest commentary by Mark McCormick For 144 years, Stillman College, an HBCU (historically Black college or university) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, started by..
Mr. Rogers had a plaque hanging in his office that read, “What is most essential is most invisible.” Of course, Fred Rogers..
When we bought our house, my husband and I inherited well-tended front and back yards, complete with bushes, flowers and established fruit..
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