Columbia Theological Seminary Names Eleventh President
Columbia Theological Seminary’s presidential search committee and board of trustees are pleased to announce Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo will become Columbia’s 11th president effective August 1, 2022.
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The Mission Responsibility through Investment Committee clarifies their role in the PC(USA)’s fight against climate change
An op-ed by Kerri Allen and Lindley DeGarmo, the chair and vice-chair of the Mission Responsibility through Investment Committee, about the committee's role in a multipronged strategy to halt the impact of climate change.
Corrections to May 4, 2022, “Climate Crisis at GA225” story
A letter from the Presbyterian Outlook team.
Order of worship — May 29, 2022
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
Blessed be the tie that binds
Easter 7c Acts 16:16–34 We sang it yesterday with gusto; The old timers love it— and the new ones will; What, do..
The power of song — Weekly Christian ed lesson
In this lesson, children will explore the relationship between music and faith.
7th Sunday of Easter — May 29, 2022
A Looking into the Lectionary reflection by Barbara Chaapel.
Kendrick Lamar’s new album reminds us that even prophets are fallible
His first album in five years has the Pulitzer Prize winner counting the costs of truth-telling.
Willow Creek announces major layoffs amid post-COVID struggle
Willow Creek Community Church, a Chicago megachurch that was one of the largest and most highly regarded congregations in the nation, will lay off 30% of its staff due to post-COVID-19 declines in attendance and giving.
National Caucus of Korean Presbyterian Churches holds Jubilee Assembly
Fiftieth-anniversary celebration called ‘a great way to look back at the road we traveled as Korean American churches’
Nature personified
In adrienne maree brown’s futuristic short story “the river,” a Detroit girl makes extra money by taking passengers on boat tours.
Rest as resistance and refuge
Activist, artist, and public theologian Tricia Hersey looks at the radical biblical instruction to rest and how claiming it can be a form of resistance.
Planning continues on COVID and security protocols for 2022 General Assembly
COGA talks COVID, renovations, worship and security for the 225th General Assembly beginning June 18.
Welcome to Outlook’s new website
We couldn’t be more excited to share our new digital platform with you.
The director of Princeton Seminary’s Farminary Project says we ought to start by stopping
The Rev. Dr. Nathan Stucky serves Princeton Theological Seminary as director of the Farminary Project, a place “where theological education is integrated with small-scale regenerative agriculture to train faith leaders who are conversant in the areas of ecology, sustainability and food justice.”
Co-Moderators of the 224th General Assembly condemn weekend violence in the US
‘To remain silent in the face of these atrocities is an act of complicity and a betrayal of the Gospel’
What happens when the PC(USA) engages an insurance giant on climate change?
Leaders of Presbyterian Mission Responsibility Through Investment talk about their recent success with AIG.
A prayer for graduates
As our time has come to leave this campus that we have called home, grant us wisdom, courage, and joy in our journeys forward.
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough
In Red Lip Theology, blogger and public theologian Candice Marie Benbow offers an invitation to create theologies that speak to our personal experiences of church, God, heartache and true fullness of life.
Faith on the ground in Buffalo: Voice Buffalo executive director Denise Walden
Soon after a white 18-year-old shooter targeted Black customers of a community grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday (May 14), the Rev. Denise Walden, executive director of Voice Buffalo, a social justice and equity organization, was coordinating clergy to offer grief counseling and help families immediately and, she hopes, for the foreseeable future.
Stated Clerk prays for healing amid weekend shootings on both coasts
Church leaders remember victims from Presbyterian Church and supermarket violence.
What we mean when we say #TrustBlackWomen
“I am so glad you are Black.” That was Rev. Shanea Leonard’s response after joining the Zoom meeting and seeing my face.
A charge to remember
"'There is always ‘a before’ that makes a beginning possible.' This afternoon, I charge you to re-member by recalling the “before” that makes this day possible."
NEXT Church keynoter Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes puts to rest the excuses that drive some clergy to toil too much
After earning a PhD and teaching for a few years, Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes decided to enroll in seminary, where her eyes were opened in an unexpected and unpleasant way.
Reproductive justice and the PC(USA)
This article contains content that may be distressing to readers including accounts of abortion and violence. (Presbyterian Historical Society) — Under the..
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