At the end of a very long day during the evening General Assembly plenary session on Wednesday, I had exhausted all of..
Guest commentary by Tanner Pickett I have felt God’s presence in many places at General Assembly this week: in a historic moderator..
Guest commentary by Lauren Deming I love my job marketing for the Menucha Retreat & Conference Center, located here in Oregon’s Columbia..
Guest commentary by Jacob Bolton I am a parent of two young children, so my family is constantly on my mind at..
Guest commentary by Greg Bolt I am so thankful for the new dependent care reimbursement policy that the Office of the..
The General Assembly committee I have been a part of for my first days at GA (Social Justice Issues) concluded its work..
As I write this, in the early morning hours of the second day of committee work at the General Assembly, I am..
Saturday was one of those good days—you know the kind that you don’t really want to end. It was the convening of..
I’ve been a part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for nearly 25 years – over half of my life. My relationship with..
Guest GA commentary by Barry Ensign-George There promises to be a lot of talk at General Assembly – and no doubt long..
Special GA commentary Probably the longest ongoing discussion coming to the PC(USA) General Assembly this year concerns the role of synods and..
Special GA commentary by Brian Ellison and Paul Detterman It has been one of the privileges of our ministries — our very..
We were invited by the Outlook this month to consider our marks of faith. I don’t have any tattoos or even major..
I will admit that I have been somewhat disengaged from the 2016 political process – partly for reasons of disillusionment and my..
Guest commentary by Wilson Gunn Please grab your Book of Order. I’d love to be less BOOish – but this is, plain..
I got my first tattoo when I was serving as the youth director at a small Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida. The..
Guest commentary by Kurt Esslinger I first started thinking about getting a tattoo in college. I knew I didn’t want to take..
Guest commentary by Donald McCall It happened on a Sunday Morning. I was sitting in our usual pew in church next to..
Guest commentary by Clay Allard When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s, I watched my father..
Guest Outpost blog by Alex Becker I used to be a runner. Back in elementary school, my parents thought it would be..
Guest commentary by Wayne Sankarlal Much of the work that I do relates to small- and medium-sized churches. You know, the ones..
I was riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a very rutted, dusty dirt road between Anse a Galets, a..
Her name was Grace. She was homebound when I started at my church. Actually she hadn’t been out of her house..
My husband and I are currently participating in Dave Ramsey’s curriculum, “Financial Peace University.” Ramsey urges participants to carry cash for regular purchases..
Guest commentary by Edward Bowen I may not support the same presidential candidate as you do, but please don’t hate me. Perhaps..
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