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..
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..
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..
A few years ago, in the midst of the war in Syria, some 50 pastors from across the Middle East made their..
This issue is the fourth in a series of four exploring basic theological questions in ways designed to engender further discussion in..
What do we have to do with each other? This question may not be as simple as it seems. What do..
Never read the comments There is an adage in the social media lexicon: Never read the comments. Media outlets frequently curate their..
This issue is the third in a series of four exploring basic theological questions in ways designed to engender further discussion in..
While I was leading a church-sponsored trip, the father of a parishioner told me a family story. His two daughters had left..
Once upon a time, a professor of theology heeded the lasting wisdom of H. Richard Niebuhr. “Today,” he observed way back..
Who is God, really? Who are we, honestly? And what does God have to do with us? I realize our attention should..
Emmanuel The best way to determine what God has to do with us is to listen to God’s own testimony in Scripture...
This issue is the second in a series of four exploring basic theological questions in ways designed to engender further discussion in..
I recently conducted an informal Facebook poll asking who in the Bible really seemed to “fit the part” of a messenger of..
In 2015, Brock Turner was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault. Two international students from Sweden caught him in the..
Usher sang “Amazing Grace” at the emotional Los Angeles Lakers game on January 31, 2020 — the first game following Kobe Bryant’s..
A basic theological question is this: Who is God, really? This issue of the Outlook is devoted to answering this very question...
Singing of where and who God is, Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu philosopher and a Nobel laureate for literature, passionately insisted, “God..
What God looks like In his TED Talk, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” Sir Ken Robinson tells the story of a little girl..
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