The word is that springtime arrives late this week, yet here on the Maine coast we have little to show for it...
I remember in college I started getting hives seemingly out of nowhere. We never did figure out what caused them. They were..
Everything is the same. I walked outside and pollen covered my car, birds were chirping and I noticed all the yardwork that..
As COVID-19 continues to grow in cases across the United States, those of us in higher education have been bracing for what..
If the church wants to contribute to a society grounded in empathy and love, it has a civic responsibility to enthusiastically fund..
We all have familiar comforts we turn to when times are tough. A particular blanket or food or even a smell may..
In the early 1990s a savage war broke out in the streets of Serbia. Fear and anxiety spread like a virus. Schools..
Guest commentary by Ashley-Anne Masters The last time I saw many of my college students in person was Ash Wednesday. During the..
Guest commentary by Matthew J. Skolnik Some of my friends are celebrating that their introverted nature finally feels useful. Others who have..
I am still trying to grasp what happened this past week. On Sunday, March 8, Faith Presbyterian Church in San Diego..
Before last Wednesday We were like ancient Babylonians Huddled together building our babel towers And we all spoke one language Work, make,..
Raise the yellow flag that marks disease. This lonely ship will not soon come to rest in port of comforting communion, or..
I really want to write a good column for you, because these are important times. But I’m tired. As a leader in..
Taking a deep breath, I pushed record and tried to smile into the laptop camera. Parishioners were counting on me. But I..
Eternal God, sustainer, provider, God of all wisdom and knowledge, Our spirits are weary, our faith quivers, our minds get clouded by..
David, the shepherd accustomed to protecting the sheep from wild animals, jettisoned Saul’s ill-fitting armor and instead went to the creek to..
Guest commentary by Jeffrey Myers God our Creator, who calls the stars by name and sets the fireflies dancing, who makes the mountains..
Guest commentary by Susan Krummel For leaders in congregations, the current health crisis is new territory. I was in worship on Sunday,..
I’ll never forget a story from Jim Lowry, then-pastor at Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis, of how each Saturday evening in his..
A basic theological question is this: Who is God, really? This issue of the Outlook is devoted to answering this very question...
Guest commentary by Matthew J. Skolnik It appears to me that as the church wrestles with how to respond to COVID-19, that..
My 4-year-old came home from preschool singing, “He’s got the whooooooole world, in his hands!” His 7-year-old brother replied: “The whole world?..
Singing of where and who God is, Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu philosopher and a Nobel laureate for literature, passionately insisted, “God..
What God looks like In his TED Talk, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” Sir Ken Robinson tells the story of a little girl..
A wondrous mystery One of my favorite theological quotes comes from Saint Augustine who insists that “if we have understood, what we..
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