Pick up your mat and walk
Guest commentary by Dave Coles God’s messages in Scripture often turn on just a word or two. Take the story of the..
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21st Sunday after Pentecost — November 3, 2019
Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12; Luke 19:1-10 Ordinary 31C; Proper 26 Public. Obvious. Communal. These three adjectives describe Jesus’ encounter..
Exactly as You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers
Shea Tuttle Eerdmans, 184 pages Reviewed by Jo Forrest The teachings of Fred Rogers continue to enliven people through the numerous biographies,..
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..
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 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..
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..
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,..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
South Africa
One of several successes by Presbyterian Outreach in 2018 was the celebration of a 300th Presbyterian church established in South Africa. Efforts..
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?”..
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..
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,”..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Living Waters for the World expands training to Johnsonburg Camp and Retreat Center
(Press release) Living Waters for the World (LWW), a ministry of the Synod of Living Waters, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Johnsonburg Camp..
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