Welcome to two-dimensional screens, Zoom rooms, mute buttons and voting icons. Welcome to worship online. Is there a seat at the Lord’s..
The announcement came in the Presbyterian Outlook: “It’s official. The 2020 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be held virtually,..
One morning last fall, I excitedly headed to a local coffee shop to meet with one of our congregation’s college students, lamenting..
Guest commentary by Mike Sears “I don’t see how you’re not getting it!” my frustrated 17-year-old shouted. A well-trained and fairly experienced..
During this time of fear, disease and sadness, it seems we, more than ever, desire concrete answers. We want accurate tests for..
We had come to the real question: What about communion? The Lenten season of repentance was quickly accelerating into a time of..
The initial idea was this: introduce Presbyterians to the “squeegee kids,” mostly young black men who approach cars stopped at intersections in..
Imagine for a moment the General Assembly that wasn’t. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is preparing to launch into a virtual General..
In a conversation I recently had with colleagues, we discussed how we might share more of our rich Reformed theology in our..
Recently, our son and daughter-in-law were searching for painter’s tape for a sidewalk chalk project with their 3-year-old. They are schoolteachers who..
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est. Wherever love is true, God is there. Wherever Christian love, charity, service is true, God..
While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and..
by Barbara G. Wheeler On Easter Sunday 2020, in the National Cathedral – empty except for the requisite “fewer than 10” musicians..
Gregory Bentley & Elona Street-Stewart Standing for co-moderators Gregory Bentley Teaching elder Presbytery of North Alabama Elona Street-Stewart Ruling elder Presbytery of..
Guest commentary by Carolyn Click Rain is falling on this dismal spring morning. Like tears, I think. For a moment, I can’t..
I remember the summer in 1986 when my identity as a storyteller began. After filling my 1968 Buick Wildcat, a classmate that..
As pastors and church leaders, we travel in and out of airports, train stations, even the local bus depots going to meetings,..
For two thousand years, the church has done a relatively good job of comforting bereaved people. Through ritual leadership, pastoral care, laments..
Guest commentary by Rachel Potts-Wells Imagine you wake up one morning to an email saying that everything you’ve been working for over..
George Floyd is my brother. Like you, like me, George Floyd was created in God’s image and declared good. We are members..
Guest commentary by Jimmie Hawkins The death of George Floyd puts each one of us in a place where we had hoped..
Guest commentary by Matthew J. Skolnik Whether your congregation is about to return to your church building with attentive safety measures or..
A few years ago, in the midst of the war in Syria, some 50 pastors from across the Middle East made their..
In seminary we often talked about being a “connectional church.” This means that none of us are an island — not pastors,..
Drew Faust in the epilogue of her book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War,” wrote: “Individuals found themselves..
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