God’s family: Family faith formation @ home

Welcome Before you begin, invite those gathered to go outside (or if weather does not permit, around the house) and gather..

Presbyterian News Service

PDA responding to Caribbean volcano eruptions

(PNS) Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is responding to volcano eruptions on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent that the United Nations says..

Book Reviews

Beguiled by Beauty: Cultivating a Life of Contemplation and Compassion

Wendy Farley WJK Press, 212 pages Wendy Farley is a theologian who has long sought to include the outcast, the seeker, the..

Outlook Reporting

Making plans, finding focus: Looking ahead to the 2022 General Assembly

As the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) is trying to pencil in more details on the blueprint for..

Christian Ed for Children

Dinner table conversation — Christian ed @ home

The dinner table is sometimes the hub for family life. As we share a meal together, we often debrief about the..

Outlook Reporting

Presbyterian Outlook recognized at Best of the Christian Press Awards

The Presbyterian Outlook received top honors in several categories at the Associated Church Press 2020 "Best of the Church Press" award ceremony on..

Outlook Features

Fruit of the Spirit: The result of the transforming power and presence of God’s own Spirit

This is an opportune time for the church to reflect on the fruit of the Spirit, as deep, angry partisanship and polarization..

Outlook Reporting

Bringing love and relationship to a new General Assembly format: COGA works on plans for the 2022 GA

At a high level, they know what they want to achieve: designing a General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) with space..

Voices

Clutch colleagues

In a year of lament, it is a challenge to find and celebrate joy. “What is your joy this year?” our church..

Editorials

Life in the Spirit

What will life and ministry look like in the post-pandemic church? Understandably, our conversations about this matter are often framed in terms..

Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance responds to climate-related disasters

(PNS) As climate change continued to fuel natural disasters throughout the United States and around the world in 2020, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance..

Weekly Liturgy

Order of worship — April 18, 2021

You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation. It is free for..

Voices

Four-Letter Word

Love is such a lovely word, gracious, spacious, capacious to a fault, embracing every blessed thing from those little smiley faces we..

Voices

New life, new creativity

Last year at the beginning of the pandemic, I brought home my potted succulents from my study at the church. I set..

Voices

Environmental racism: Latricia’s story

Guest commentary by Pam McVety One of Latricia’s earliest memories is looking out a sliding glass door and wondering why everything looked..

Looking into the lectionary

2nd Sunday of Easter — April 11, 2021

John 20:19-31 Easter 2B Over the last several years, I have been significantly influenced by the thought-provoking work of theologian Shelly Rambo..

Family Faith Formation

New life: Family faith formation @ home

Welcome Before you begin, invite those gathered to go outside (or if weather does not permit, around the house) and gather..

Voices

Of tomato plants and churches

A few months ago, I bought some tomatoes at the grocery store. My wife cut one open and discovered that..

Book Reviews

Finding Jesus at the Border: Opening Our Hearts to the Stories of Our Immigrant Neighbors

Julia Lambert Fogg Brazos Press, 208 pages Reviewed by Bailey Pickens I moved to a city near the U.S.-Mexico border three years..

News from other sources

PHS awards grants for preserving church records

(PHS) The Presbyterian Historical Society is pleased to have awarded seven Heritage Preservation Grants to PC(USA) congregations in 2021. The winners come from six..