How do we listen to one another in a fractured world? Our society is polarized by increasing partisanship. According to the Pew Research..
Not to be too sensationalist, but when the sky is falling, what does gratitude look like? To my ears, the language of..
These thanks we give fit best with simplest things, the ordinary benisons we scarcely note as our times go fleeting past. This..
You’ve seen the pleas from the CDC: “Spend Thanksgiving with just your immediate household this year.” My sister called me this week and..
I am not sure if it is true for you, but for me, grace and gratitude are hard to find these days...
The post on my public Facebook page from the man I did not know started out innocently enough. George said that..
Guest commentary by Nelson Reveley John 11:35 reads: “Jesus wept.” Specifically, this is Jesus’s reaction to the death of Lazarus. More broadly,..
Dear Outlook reader, To introduce myself: In June of 2019, I retired from 17 years of service as the senior pastor of..
What is your relationship to social media? What about the congregation’s use of social media? I confess to having a love/hate relationship..
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..
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