In Northern California, churches step up to shelter fire evacuees

(RNS) — Around 4:45 a.m. Sunday (Oct. 27), staffers at CrossWalk Community Church in Napa got a call, alerting them the church would..

Editorials

Navigating politics in our pews

I want to say that election season looms — but really, election season is off and running. Debates – on stages and..

Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance responds to California wildfires

(PNS) Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is working with mid councils and churches in California to address wildfires currently raging as well as the long-term..

Outlook Reporting

Love locally: Presbyterians care for immigrants in the community

How can Presbyterians respond in their own communities to concerns about immigration? Those who live near the U.S.-Mexico border may feel they’re..

Outlook Reporting

Loving your neighbors, the immigrant farm workers

Jim Renfrew is pastor of Byron Presbyterian Church in upstate New York. That’s “a very rural, conservative area” between Buffalo and Rochester,..

Presbyterian News Service

Cindy Kohlmann visits Presbyterian leaders in South Africa

(OGA) A delegation from the Presbytery of Northern New England (PNNE), recently traveled to South Africa to commemorate a twenty-year partnership with the..

News from other sources

Board of Pensions portfolio outperforms assumptions

With a market value of $9.6 billion, the Board of Pensions’ Balanced Investment Portfolio returned 10.3 percent during the first eight months..

Editorials

Coffee and conversation with co-moderator Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri

Last week, I had the opportunity to catch up with co-moderator of the 223rd General Assembly, Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri. I spoke with her..

Editorials

Meet the Presbyterian Outlook board: Ann Herlin

Ann Herlin is associate pastor at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has served for 18 years. During..

Benedictory

The worst seat on the plane

“When have you last had a good session with YOURSELF? Or have you EVER had it out with you?” Taken from “The..

Insights columns

On this day student research happened: Archives and the use of time

For the past two years my colleagues and I at the Presbyterian Historical Society have worked closely with students from the Community..

From the Archives

70 years ago — September 26, 1949

“The Christian college must make its appeal to our more thoughtful men and women. The things that are seen are temporal but..

He/She Said

Heidi Hall,

“I want an afterlife like my life has been: one like Revelation 7:9, a great multitude of diverse people existing together in..

Presbyterians in Action

South Africa

One of several successes by Presbyterian Outreach in 2018 was the celebration of a 300th Presbyterian church established in South Africa. Efforts..

In This Corner

A junior high Sunday school …

A junior high Sunday school teacher in Maryland asked, “When do people you know pray other than at meals and at bedtime?”..

Presbyterian News Service

Seminarians of Color Conference gets started at a historic Tennessee farm

CLINTON, Tenn. — Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries kicked off the 40th anniversary of the Seminarians of Color Conference Thursday at the..

Religion News Service

ICE drops $300,000 fine for an immigrant in church sanctuary

(RNS) — The message Pastor Isaac Villegas got on his cell phone earlier this week was short and sweet. “Un problema menos,”..

Outlook Reporting

PC(USA), A Corporation digs into details of church governance

PHILADELPHIA – A new global resources manager will start work Oct. 28 with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – overseeing work on translation..

Voices

A call for a new iconoclasm

Guest commentary by Suzanne DeWitt Hall Icons are images that are meant to act as windows through which we look to see..

Looking into the lectionary

20th Sunday after Pentecost — October 27, 2019

Joel 2:23-32; 2 Timothy 4:6-8; Luke 18:9-14 Ordinary 30C; Proper 25 I come back to this parable of the praying Pharisee and..

Multichannel Church Report

Shaped by Scripture

Read correctly, the Hebrew Bible offers necessary understandings of God’s nature, God’s desires and humanity’s journey in God’s creation. It doesn’t offer..