America is being smothered by multiple traumas. The COVID-19 pandemic – which has taken over 200,000 lives in America and thrown..
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..
“What if you came out of this pandemic stronger and more faithful than when you began?” That was the question I posed..
Reparations have always been controversial, especially in mainstream national discourse. In the history of race relations in America, reparations for African..
In the dark, wee hours of a February morning (prior to the pandemic), 16 pilgrims from Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North..
Across the country, universities, seminaries, churches and communities are beginning to investigate and confront their own histories involving slavery — and the..
While many Americans may have heard talk of the concept of reparations and may be aware that some universities, seminaries, cities and..
It never fails, and always seems to happen in just the same way. There is an instance of racial outrage in a..
Evangelical School of Theology (EST) received its national accreditation as a tertiary educational institution in 2006, following nearly 20 years of..
Who are we? Who am I? These are questions that we wrestle with from time to time, perhaps never more than in..
As COVID-19 quickly spread from Asia to Europe and across the ocean to the United States, worldwide concern over the impact of..
Selah. This mysterious little word is sprinkled throughout the psalms. My colleagues tell me that its origin and translation are uncertain and..
“I have a dream that one day … the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be..
“God’s love never dies.” These words were spoken by a church elder, to fellow elders, in a time of crisis. The context..
The last two hours of the 2020 General Assembly tell a story of their own – a story about the nature of..
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.” Oddly, perhaps, in the church..
I left the 224th General Assembly questioning if our polity works in our fast-paced world. I wondered if assuming commissioners’ knowledge about..
Pastors typically experience tensions between what they see as their biblical role and the role imposed on them as leader of a..
We’ve asked several people to give us their plans for reading during the summer of 2020. Our hope was to give Outlook..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has a vision for the future. While COVID-19 has made the near future..
What are some of the lessons of the 2020 General Assembly? In a debriefing held June 30 following the just-concluded 2020 General..
One morning last fall, I excitedly headed to a local coffee shop to meet with one of our congregation’s college students, lamenting..
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..
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