As I write this, there are emails that have not been sent, there are phone calls that have not been returned,..
Guest commentary by Larry Toney If you’ve been watching the news from Afghanistan, you may have experienced the same anguish I have...
You are all frontline heroes, from red-eyed stockers to baggers. Still, I make a place in my heart those working the register...
Books have always been an important part of my life. My innate obsession with books has blossomed into a deep appreciation for..
I was asked recently what I read for inspiration and information. I had to admit to this person that my reading, especially..
My first memory of a storybook includes the Fisher-Price record player, an illustrated version of “Snow White,” a tone to turn the..
This is a picture of my daughter playing in August 2021. Some things are the same from a few years ago. She..
Guest commentary by William McConnell It was a normal weekend in the life of a denominational “road warrior” in the days before..
I cannot remember how, as an adult, I first got my hands on “A Ring of Endless Light” by Madeleine L’Engle. My..
Though the pipe organ welcomes us into traditional Presbyterian churches, the Hammond B3 organ is a Black church staple. As our organist..
I have always been a reader – it’s how I learn, engage and make sense of the world – so it’s not..
Guest blog by Russ Kerr I love summer reading! Winter reading is for curling up with a cozy blanket next to the..
Visiting my local library, I found an endcap displaying Robert Putnam’s new book, “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago..
After only a couple of dates, Ginny and I lighted on the subject of pets. I am a dog guy. My romantic..
(To my friends at Central Presbyterian Church) I was lost. I didn’t know it. I thought I had it all together. I..
“Language is a living thing, and when it dies, it leaves bones.” Maria Dahvana Headley writes this line in the introduction to..
I nurse my newborn son and run the shower. His breath knocks against the night air, nose clogged by a cold. I..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has enabled over 100 new calls in three years. It has done so..
I think it was about this time last year that I confessed here on the Presbyterian Outlook blog that I didn’t have..
Quarantine is a period of social isolation to help arrest the spread of disease. Turns out, it is also apparently the time..
Guest commentary by Matt Matthews “To be quiet, even wordless, in a good place is a better gift than poetry.” —Wendell..
Remember those Zoom meetings early in the pandemic when “you’re on mute” became our communal refrain? At the start of the COVID-19..
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri explores art as a form of spiritual practice.
One year I took a 4 a.m. Christmas morning airport shuttle alone with a sweet driver. “Merry Christmas,” he said and handed..
Growing up in Oklahoma, I had a complex relationship with how I learned about Indigenous people and land — about how we..
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