8th Sunday after Pentecost — August 4, 2019

Hosea 11:1-11; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21 Ordinary 18C Proper 13 To whom do we turn when seeking guidance? Justice? Wisdom? Reassurance or..

Outlook Reporting

Will you be a neighbor? — Worship at Big Tent

BALTIMORE – "Welcome, siblings, to Big Tent.” The co-moderators of the 2018 General Assembly, Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri and Cindy Kohlmann, greeted the..

Outlook Reporting

Hope and lament: Big Tent 2019 opens with calls to pay attention

BALTIMORE – So Big Tent 2019 is meeting Aug. 1-3 in Baltimore, a city that President Donald Trump recently decried in a..

What's right?

What’s right about Bristow Presbyterian Church?

Bristow Presbyterian Church — Bristow, Oklahoma Twenty years ago, the church started Youth Club, a Wednesday night ministry serving students in the..

Presbyterian News Service

Ray Jones named director of Theology, Formation and Evangelism

LOUISVILLE (PNS) – The Presbyterian Mission Agency announced today that it has named the Rev. Dr. Ray Jones III as the new..

Presbyterian News Service

Board of Pensions repeats Best Places to Work honor

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (Board of Pensions) — Right on the heels of being named one of the Healthiest Employers in Greater Philadelphia, the..

Presbyterian News Service

Big Tent hosts African leaders’ pre-conference gathering

BALTIMORE (PNS) Leaders from 11 African countries now serving the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 22 states and 20 presbyteries across the United..

Book Reviews

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

David Brooks Random House, 384 pages Reviewed by Linda Danney Britton The public man: Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. Commentator..

Voices

Faith

I called faith a gold-trimmed Gospel, a half-note suspension resolved in hymnic harmony, rehearsed prayers punctuated with perfect gasps and laughter, old..

Presbyterian News Service

Office of the General Assembly launches new online training

LOUISVILLE (OGA) The Office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is launching a new online training resource that planners hope..

Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterians urged to pray for peace, justice in the Republic of Sudan

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. (PNS) — “Pray for a new Sudan to come” was the heartfelt plea given by Dr. Aida Weran to..

Benedictory

Should we pray for the president?

This past weekend, as I write these words at the beginning of June, a large collection of influential evangelical pastors and leaders..

Presbyterian News Service

Stated Clerk denounces President Trump’s tweets about Baltimore

(OGA) As the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) prepares to open Big Tent this week in Baltimore, the Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated..

Presbyterian News Service

Self-Development of People will engage with Atlanta at next meeting

(PNS) With its September meeting in Atlanta, the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) aims to get to know the Georgia..

Voices

No substitute for community

I recently attended the PC(USA) Transitional Ministry Conference at the Zephyr Point Conference Center in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The conference itself was..

Presbyterian News Service

God and science: There is room for both

(OGA) Can you believe in God and still be committed to science and its discoveries? A group of Presbyterians in Texas believes you..

Outlook Features

The process of rejuvenation: Krislund Camp and Conference Center

Krislund Camp and Conference Center is settled in the rural northern stretch of the Appalachian Mountains in central Pennsylvania. Like many faith-based..