On a warm, sunny day, Ed and Anne Marie Germain walk the outdoor trail around the pond at Croixdale senior living community..
At my retirement celebration at the church where my wife and I served as co-pastors for seven years, a member gave me..
If you or your parents are not yet ready, this is a time to start thinking about it. There is..
The other day I attended a meeting of my presbytery. There is, as I have discovered, no rubric in Robert’s Rules of..
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has the feel of a denomination in transition — with congregations leaving and others..
It began with phone calls into the Baltimore Presbytery office from churches and organizations across the country that wanted to do mission..
I live in a faith-based CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community). I came here first to an independent living apartment. When needed, I..
Perhaps they thought it was the Feds who’d come for them! Somehow, the N.S.A. had tracked, and would condemn Those dirty shepherds,..
In Christ there is no East or West — as the old hymn goes — but among his followers today there is..
Every church prepares for Christmas. Perhaps your church produces an elaborate pageant or the choir sings special music during worship. We light..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has not been hearing much feedback regarding a recent federal court ruling involving..
Presbyterians who want to help with disaster relief in the typhoon-swamped Philippines are being urged to pray and send money, but not..
Compiled by Roy Howard, Outlook book editor The Experience of God — Being, Consciousness, Bliss David Bentley Hart Yale University Press,..
LOUISVILLE – What responsibility do churches and Christians have to address the tremendous disparities of wealth in the world? And why is..
“We will be better off in another denomination,” said the person who has decided God’s will for their congregation. That assumption has..
LOUISVILLE – In a time when the narrative of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is one of decline, what is the story of..
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – She hadn’t aimed for fame. All she wanted was peace for her homeland. Liberia had been in a..
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – It is sad to recognize that our own PC(USA) has spent so many years and General Assemblies embroiled..
Finances for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continue to look challenging — with expenses being held in check for now, but with the..
Caution to readers: This story contains details of sexual abuse allegations taken from an administrative commission’s report. Five men’s accusations against..
“Sixty years,” he whispered as he tried to blink back tears. “Sixty years.” We’d just walked outside from..
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA, Nov. 3, 2013 – Just like the Presbyterians, only more so. Through the first three days of discussions,..
When the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta met in August, Ed Albright – who had served as executive presbyter there for eight years..
CHICAGO – When the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) meets in Detroit next summer, the primary focus of the Covenant..
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