Summer reading: Grief, healing, and the search for meaning
Amy Pagliarella offers a list of memoirs and novels that grapple with suffering, memory, and personal transformation.
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Blessing of the backpacks
Jess Rigel offers a blessing for students, families and educators as a new school year begins, honoring all they carry.
Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning
"Black Elegies" attempts to make visible the seen and unseen registers of grief in those marked by the transatlantic slave trade. — Jordan Burton
The Outlook staff will be off August 4-8 for sabbath
Outlook Editor Teri McDowell Ott shares why the Outlook plans to close for a week — and where you can find the worship resources you still need.
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost — August 10, 2025
When the future feels uncertain, God invites us to look up, writes Teri McDowell Ott. Beneath a sky full of promises, faith finds its next step.
Order of worship — August 10, 2025
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
Union Theological Seminary President Serene Jones to retire after 18 years of leadership
Following a sabbatical, she’ll return to Union to teach and write.
Horizons — Mary Magdalene, the Tower, John 11:17-27
Rosalind Banbury's first reflection on the 2025-2026 Presbyterian Women/Horizons Bible Study.
The Emperor of Gladness
"Vuong’s richly imagined characters push back against the material and spiritual scarcity of their surroundings, recognizing collective strength in shared rejection." — Ross Fogg
What a wisdom text taught me about online dating
A modern search for love meets ancient insight as Katy Shevel seeks wisdom for navigating friendship, faithfulness and dating apps.
Big truths for little readers
Three new children’s books explore big faith questions with beauty, joy, and hope — from Miriam’s dancing to a magical lunchbox and what the Bible really is.
Rethinking psychological evaluations in the PC(USA) ordination process
Jane L. Holtzclaw, Presbyterian pastor and psychiatrist, questions the PC(USA)-required psychological evaluations for ordination and offers alternatives for discernment.
[ … ] Poems
In "[...]," a Palestinian American author dedicates his poems to “the relatable and unrelatable, the translatable and untranslatable Palestinian flesh.” Andrew Taylor-Troutman offers a review.
Stronger than the Storm: RHINO’s 20-Year legacy of hope
20 years after Katrina, St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church continues to rebuild hope in New Orleans and beyond.
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost — August 3, 2025
Roger Gench explores Luke 12:13-21 through the lens of a gift economy, gratitude, and Jesus' call to be "rich toward God" in community and shared abundance.
Order of worship — August 3, 2025
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
Superman isn’t ‘too woke’ — he’s kind
"Superman" returns the hero to his roots as a "champion of the oppressed," offering lessons for Christians along the way.
First Presbyterian Church of Kerrville ministers to Texas flood victims, prepares for long-term recovery
Sunday service remembers Ruling Elder Jane Ragsdale, who died in the flooding.
Is death the end? Holding on to love that outlasts loss
Is death the end? Earl S. Johnson, Jr. shares a story of grief, God, and how love’s presence endures beyond loss.
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
"McPherson was a remarkable female American religious leader when that description fit few others, making her story relevant to Christians today." — Bill Tammeus
Louisville Institute names a new executive director
The Rev. Dr. Vanessa Lovelace will begin her new work Aug. 1.
Holding on
A gripping recount of Melanie Spencer's father's passing, his life, and a poem he gave her with his last words of wisdom.
PC(USA) Co-Moderators reflect at the halfway point of their term
The Rev. Tony Larson and the Rev. CeCe Armstrong are traveling the nation and the world to learn from and inspire Presbyterians.
Hospicing White Christianity and midwifing something new
If Christianity is to survive, it must be willing to let some things die, writes Tamice Spencer-Helms.
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost — July 27, 2025
Philip Gladden explores Luke 11:1-13, the Lord’s Prayer, and what it means to pray as Jesus taught.
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