The rain is falling in torrents so heavy that I cannot see the end of my street (May 1, 2010, the weekend of the Middle Tennessee flood).
I saw my father dead once. He was in his casket, but the undertaker had put the wrong face on him. In death Dad wore an odd smirk that I never saw in life.
Not long ago I was dashing from a lunch meeting in Lower Manhattan to the nearest subway station when two well-dressed young men approached me, both with side-locks and the broad-brimmed hats that some Orthodox Jewish men wear.
The wedding season is upon us! Given the large number of single female Ministers of Word and Sacrament, I am amazed that I am one of this year’s brides.
My friend Peggie was in her 50s when she answered God’s call to ministry. She’s active in the local church, serves on the leadership team, preaches on occasion, and is naturally gifted in evangelism.
interview by Jack Haberer, OUTLOOK editor
Linda Valentine has been re-elected by the General Assembly Mission Council (subject to confirmation by the 219th General Assembly) to serve a second four-year term as executive director – the chief of staff to most of the denomination’s national and international staff. Editor Jack Haberer sat down with Linda Valentine to talk about her first term and to look ahead.
Perhaps the most stunning piece of business coming to the 219th General Assembly is Recommendation 42 proposing to create a commission (the..
I remember a story my mother often told me. As a late teenager, she read in 1 John 4:7 that God is love, and concluded that God was nowhere to be found in the church in which she was raised.
Editor’s note: The Presbyterian Outlook will confer the E.T. Thompson Award for lifetime achievement in service to our Lord, the church and world to Syngman Rhee at its General Assembly luncheon banquet on July 3. Louisville Seminary President Dean Thompson prepared this tribute.
the silence in the coastal communities
is almost deafening,
Perhaps the most difficult principle for the Multichannel Church to implement is moving some activities and ministries off site, out into neighborhoods and homes.
My friend Molly T. Marshall is accustomed to controversy.
Throughout much of the modern era, Christian educators, along with most modern people, assumed a linear process for Christian education starting with Biblical and theological scholars handing on their scholarship to teachers, who, in turn, effectively passed it on to students, who, ostensibly, learn and change their behavior.
It may not come as a great a shock to the Outlook to know that this reader seldom files for future reference most copies of this publication.
In an October 8, 2009, Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, Paul Krugman opines:
“We are the Church of Jesus Christ. When the powers of the world decide that they will conduct business as usual, and that business is contrary to the teachings of Christ and the will of God for humanity, then it is time for the church to end its complicity in this sinful behavior. If we do not, then we remain unrepentant.”
The year is 1948. The place, the holy island of Iona. The Rev. Dr. George MacLeod is sitting with a young man, John, who has spent time in a borstal for young offenders. Sensing that the young man is troubled, MacLeod invites him to write down any burden he has on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope, before receiving the laying on of hands.
My associate pastor wasn’t surprised, but I was.
LOUISVILLE — Yes, Virginia, there is a vital Presbyterian Church in Cuba.
On this particular Sunday we are celebrating the Lord’s Supper by intinction. The congregation has been served except for those in the nursery.
(ABP) The snow has stopped falling here in Washington. At least for the moment. After almost two weeks, we are still digging out from a few weeks ago when whoever is in charge of weather patterns mistakenly thought we were Alaska and dumped multiple feet of snow on our unsuspecting city.
Just before Christmas I received notice that a childhood friend had written a book. He had gone on to college to major in Religious Studies. He had been very serious, but the book was described as a satire, written to make people laugh. I was intrigued. I couldn’t wait to read it and got it right away.
The eastering I look for
Have you ever had one of those moments when you knew, you KNEW, God was present? I did recently.
More tea, vicar?
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