Supply preacher: Have robe, will travel. That is, until the robe doesn’t zip. Our first child was on the way and we..
Friends, It is that time of year again: Giving Tuesday! Unlike other random days on the secular calendar (why can’t every day..
The first Geneva robes, with their billowy sleeves and pleats, were stitched together with men in mind. These days their construction makes..
When my family moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, we purchased the only house that was available in our price range. After moving..
In January 1828, a bunch of men sitting in a palace in Mexico City signed the “Treaty of Limits,” a document that..
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from..
“These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having..
I recently watched a short, six-minute film by Louis Schwartzberg called “Gratitude” (you can find it on YouTube). This is a visual..
A wave of death has hit our congregation recently. We said goodbye to several long time church members over the course of..
It’s easy for me to “remember back” to the PC(USA)’s decisions to ordain gay ministers and allow for the officiating of same-gender..
I was working with a refugee ministry in Europe when I moved back to the U.S. to attend a Presbyterian seminary. Then..
Whoever welcomes children welcomes Jesus. Love your neighbor as yourself. Who do you think was a neighbor to the man? The foreigner..
Guest Outpost blog by Alina Kanaski I love Pittsburgh. I went to seminary in Pittsburgh. I rode out being call-ready in..
They almost seem to come around together: Election Day and Advent. A secular moment and a sacred moment, moving in tandem, as..
The elderly woman waited her turn to speak with me after my talk. “It doesn’t really matter how you walk,” she said..
Guest commentary by Harry Heintz I don’t know just how I found the writings of Eugene Peterson. Once I did, it..
Why am I writing about typewriters when you are supposed to write on them? At least that is what people used..
After hearing Jezebel expound on her state policy of murdering protesters of her injustices, Elijah sat down under a solitary broom tree and..
After nearly seven years of being a pastor, I thought I had experienced or endured most of the “firsts” of ministry. I..
Guest commentary by Pam McVety My family survived another hurricane — but not just any hurricane. Michael was a monster —the strongest..
I am a recovering first born, a recovering Martha and a recovering “human doing” who is learning to be a human being...
At our first meeting she told me she was a “prayer warrior.” I nodded, not knowing enough about what she meant to..
Books are like friends — both have an inordinate influence in your life. I have two middle schoolers and I know the..
I remember a summer evening gathering of the history department where I was a Ph.D. candidate. Faculty and other doctoral students began..
The revised “Book of Common Worship” offers this explanation of the prayers of intercession in the Service for the Lord’s Day: “Prayers..
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