The newish pastors group in my presbytery is reading “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going” by Susan..
Dear Presbyterian Outlook reader, On behalf of the Presbyterian Outlook Foundation Board of Directors I am pleased to share the news that..
Undergirding the well-worn wisdom of “Give folks a fish and nourish them for a day, teach folks to fish and nourish them..
I love being a ministry coach because I get to be present for people’s aha! moments. Sometimes, the things I say or..
America is being smothered by multiple traumas. The COVID-19 pandemic – which has taken over 200,000 lives in America and thrown..
I preach about God’s grace on the regular. I make it a point to remind people that this big, generous, expansive grace..
As I wrote this article in my guest-room-turned-shared-office, the following distractions occurred: Screaming children refusing to do homework. Barking dogs. Lawn mowers..
Guest commentary by Mark McCormick For 144 years, Stillman College, an HBCU (historically Black college or university) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, started by..
Mr. Rogers had a plaque hanging in his office that read, “What is most essential is most invisible.” Of course, Fred Rogers..
When we bought our house, my husband and I inherited well-tended front and back yards, complete with bushes, flowers and established fruit..
My first memory of political consciousness was the 1988 presidential election. There was a mock election in my second grade classroom and..
I heard someone the other day use the phrase, “that’s so 2020.” They weren’t referencing something pleasant. 2020 has become synonymous in..
I arrived to Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, in the summer of 2010. It was a different time for me and..
There are expectations of the church, divine and earthly. Our human experiences tend to not reconcile with the expectations. Divine or earthly...
“What if you came out of this pandemic stronger and more faithful than when you began?” That was the question I posed..
Sixteen months. That’s how long ago I graduated from seminary. I had to count twice, because it doesn’t seem possible that I..
All Saints’ Day feels especially important this year. Perhaps the loss of so many lives to the coronavirus makes remembering those who..
I began seminary the week my daughter turned 2. In retrospect, that sounds like a challenge, but at the time I was..
Guest commentary by Lynne A. Pabst Given all the current ideas of creating a worship space in the home right now, I..
Reparations have always been controversial, especially in mainstream national discourse. In the history of race relations in America, reparations for African..
When I made the decision – or I probably should say, when God pushed me into to the decision – to go..
I used to think I knew a lot about college ministry. My spouse is department chair for a doctoral program in clinical..
My friend is a college professor, and he claims that the students who give him the most trouble about grades are the..
In the dark, wee hours of a February morning (prior to the pandemic), 16 pilgrims from Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North..
Guest commentary by Amy Cerniglia National Coming Out Day is older than I am, but I only learned about it through social..
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