In this back-to-school season, Rev. Andrew Taylor-Troutman shares a lesson he learned in fifth grade about the power of human connection.
Young Adult Advisory Delegate Daniel Presa reflects on his time at General Assembly 225.
John Wilkinson, who helped to found NEXT Church, shares some of the history of the organization and why there is a constant need for the church to look forward.
A poem for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost.
Katrina Pekich-Bundy, who served as an on-call chaplain at GA225, reflects on the spiritual care available for commissioners and leaders at this assembly.
Pastor and writer Kathleen Long Bostrom pens a final letter to the beloved theologian Frederick Buechner, who responded to her previous notes and played an important role in her sense of call. Buechner passed away on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022.
Rev. Jimmie Ray Hawkins shares an update from PC(USA) Advocacy Offices: the Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C., and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations (PMUN) in New York City.
Rev. Elana Keppel Levy reflects on living with chronic pain. Who is God when the pain doesn’t go away? She turns to the Bible for some advice.
Teri McDowell Ott reflects on the three-week hybrid General Assembly model and some of the highlights from the assembly.
Presbytery Executive Matthew Skolnik argues that Calvin’s hyper-focus on Word and sacrament does not fit the needs of the modern church. We can no longer be sanctuary-based in our ministry and must follow Jesus’ model.
In her new song 'Church Girl,' Beyoncé doesn’t just give church girls permission to dance, she also defends us.
YAAD Daniel Herron shares a moment where he saw the Spirit show up at GA225 and the hope he has for the church.
Teri McDowell Ott's editorial for Outlook's "Wrapping up a historic, hybrid General Assembly" issue.
Citing the all-women synagogue of Acts 16, the female leaders of the Philippian church and the “Mother of Quakerism” Margaret Fell, Rev. Aaron Neff argues that the Spirit does not discriminate against gender, humans do.
Rev. Greg Rapier looks at his son’s chicken-scratch drawings and sees something beautiful — holy, even. Perhaps creativity, whether it is in a child or adult, points to something greater.
In tribute to Rosemary Radford Ruether: Nov. 2, 1936 – May 21, 2022.
Andrew Taylor-Troutman, pastor of Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church, honors the work of the church's founding pastor Rev. Dr. Mindy Douglas.
Rev. Karie Charlton shares how she claims space as a female pastor.
Rev. Zeena Davis reflects on the spiritual and communal work of claiming space and claiming our voices.
Rev. Julie Raffety reviews Skye Jethani's book about four common perspectives in the American church that try to control God. In contrast, Jethani promotes the goal of having a relationship with God, simply for the joy of God.
Rev. Rebecca Gresham-Kesner shares her experience of being a woman in ordained ministry.
Rev. Eliza Jaremko shares how she is learning to keep house like Mary and Martha.
Rev. RJ Kang served as a commissioner of GA225 on the Addressing Violence in the USA Committee. Here, she shares one way she feels the committee misused its time, and why it is essential that teaching elders receive local training on how to support victims and survivors of domestic violence.
Presbytery Executive of the Presbytery of Chicago Rev. Dr. Craig M. Howard reflects on the changes he's witnessed in gender representation in the PC(USA), and the work that remains to achieve true equality.
Anghaarad Teague Dees, the first woman to serve as head pastor at Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, remembers all the women who have paved the way for her.
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