Every August, a stream of first-year students from Lake Forest College walks across the street from their campus to our sanctuary...
I entered the sanctuary hoping to slip into a back pew, but the church was crowded. A summer Sunday during late June..
Guest commentary At a General Assembly luncheon in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2006, the then executive presbyter of Shenango Presbytery, David Dawson, introduced..
The Presbyterian Outlook is excited to introduce a new fundraising program to help you raise money for your local congregation - while..
Brown paper banners hung around the cavernous, stone auditorium. Names inscribed in black paint decorated the banners from ceiling to floor. Most..
Editor’s note: This year, the Presbyterian Outlook partnered with the Presbyterian Writers Guild in a short story contest called, “An experiment..
Most mornings I spend a couple of hours writing and working at the Pourhouse, a local nonprofit coffee shop. It’s a space..
There is a space between one word and another, a gap that yawns between truth and truth, between hands reached out to..
by Jason Brian Santos As the national director of UKirk (PC(USA) collegiate ministries), I’ve had the privilege of talking to a..
Guest commentary by Michael Isaacs In his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance tells an intertwined story of his life, the Eastern Kentucky-infused..
My memory is not what it used to be. I try not to panic about all the memorable moments that apparently weren’t..
By Diane Knauf “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” --Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer makes it clear that..
Guest Outpost blog by Samuel Son This week we asked our bloggers to share three things they would have liked to tell..
"Remember that writing things down makes them real; that it is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know; and, most..
Almost two million. That is my best estimate of the number of words I have written for sermons, weddings, funerals, a book, articles, reviews, presentations and Bible studies since my ordination as a Minister of Word and Sacrament 16-and-a-half years ago.
We live times of extreme feelings and beliefs, when we staunchly bunk ourselves into camps and stay there without wanting to..
Outlook associate editor Jana Blazek wrote this blog post this week on the second day of a three-day new pastors retreat convened by the..
Guest Outpost blog by Christopher De La Cruz This week we asked our bloggers to share three things they would have liked..
Guest Outpost blog by Julie Raffety This week we asked our bloggers to share three things they would have liked to tell..
by Greg Stovell Throughout the years, my favorite and most honest prayer has been: Are you kidding me? I grew up..
This week we asked our bloggers to share three things they would have liked to tell themselves before starting seminary. Here are..
This week we asked our bloggers to share three things they would have liked to tell themselves before starting seminary. Here are..
Guest commentary by Andrew Whaley “They didn’t teach us that in seminary!” How many times have pastors shared this phrase when relating..
Hunter Farrell, who has served as director of World Mission for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) since 2007, has announced that he is..
by Lori Archer Raible and George C. Anderson As a newly ordained minister, Lori Archer Raible participated in the Trent Symposium,..
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