My life before 2010: attend lecture, take notes, read, attend discussion group, pretend I understood the reading, take quiz, stress over exam,..
Guest commentary by Derek R. Davenport Black Friday is coming. It comes earlier each year. This year, some retailers are starting their..
For many years, churches used the language of “belonging.” Now we find ourselves in a world where “belonging” has changed and, for..
OCCASIONS LIKE THANKSGIVING can bring to mind varied thoughts of persons who have been present in years past. November includes the birthday..
What is surprising about the tragedy in Ferguson is that we are surprised. Week after week, we see stories and statistics that..
When my friend, a Presbyterian pastor, was dying in the hospital, the last thing on my mind was his professional and personal..
Dear Friends of The Presbyterian Outlook,It is with great joy and enthusiasm that I write to share that earlier this month, the board..
Twenty-five years ago Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon published “Resident Aliens” as a critique of mainline American Protestantism and as an ecclesial..
"Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which..
Sermonize /ser-muh-niz/ (verb) 1. To compose or deliver a sermon. 2. To deliver an opinionated and dogmatic talk to someone. (Merriam Webster..
In J.D. Salinger’s novella “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,” traditional ways of thinking are challenged as the main character deals with..
ANDREW LANG WAS A CELEBRATED Victorian Scottish man of letters who once published a very kind review of a book by a..
I am convinced that the membership statistics Louisville releases each year are not the most useful way to judge where we are..
An internal investigation has found that four employees of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s national staff were involved in an unauthorized plan in..
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, as host of NOVA’s Science Now series, wears a funny vest and says profound things. Isn’t that kind of..
Guest commentary by Jennie Langham The knock at the door, the knock one never expects, the knock that only comes to other..
A group of individuals spend almost three years getting to know each other and learning their quirks and strengths. They spend more..
Guest commentary from William Yoo Recent encounters with students at my seminary and members of my church and presbytery remind me of..
A few months ago, I wondered in a blog post, Shall the Fundamentalists win? We Presbyterians tend to have allergic reactions to..
“Why does our country want you here but your country doesn’t want us there?” This was the innocent question that Panchito, my..
Guest commentary from Leanna Fuller Two weeks ago, well-known pastor Mark Driscoll resigned from Mars Hill Church, a Seattle-based mega-church. Whether or..
ARE THERE SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD BABIES, or perhaps your own grandchildren, whom you wish had more connection to church? That the parents of..
I figure 1957 was the high-water mark of mainline Protestantism in the U.S. Although mainline churches kept growing until 1965, it..
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” The apostle John’s vision of God’s infinitude is..
I have often wondered if, in the two days following Christ’s crucifixion, Peter and James and John – the three whom Jesus..
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