5 faith facts about the moon landing: Space Communion and a prayer league of its own
(RNS) — Where humans go, faith seems to follow. It’s no less true of NASA’s first manned mission to land on the..
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Threshold of Discovery: A Field Guide to Spirituality in Midlife
L. Roger Owens Church Publishing, 200 pages Reviewed by Teri McDowell Ott With his 40th birthday just two months away, L. Roger..
I’ve forgotten how to read for fun
When I was a kid, reading was my hobby. Other kids played soccer or did gymnastics or participated in Scouts. While I..
Triennium preacher: Like Zacchaeus, youth are called to climb down and dine with Jesus — and invite others
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Like Zacchaeus, many youth “live in a world where we are concerned about how others see us,” said..
Interim leadership announced for World Mission
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — Sara Lisherness, the current director of the Compassion, Peace & Justice ministry, will serve as the interim director for..
Triennium’s opening worship infused with youthful joy and enthusiasm
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana (PNS) — More than 4,000 youth and their chaperones clearly energized by having arrived at Purdue University for the..
Summer books: Briefly noted
In This World of Wonders Nicholas Wolterstorff Eerdmans, 334 pages This memoir is a series of vignettes, stories and remembrances of a..
Webster Presbyterian Church near Houston reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing
Apollo 11 Moon landing. Photo by NASA (OGA) Fifty years ago this week, a nation was glued to the television to watch..
Full Darkness: Original Sin, Moral Injury, and Wartime Violence
Brian S. Powers Eerdmans, 200 pages Reviewed by Martha Moore-Keish This “present project is my argument against the comfortable and simplistic understandings..
Regarding Ruling Elders: Walking the Labyrinth
Søren Kierkegaard once said, “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of..
Theological education leader Joyce C. Tucker dies
(Presbyterian Foundation) The Rev. Dr. Joyce Cummings Tucker, a Presbyterian pastor, author, and prominent leader in theological education, died July 12, 2019, in..
One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Meditation
J. Dana Trent Upper Room Books, 112 pages Thomas Merton once said all Christians should be content with being beginners. Life is..
Caring for children as a pastor and a father
As a father of a 4-year-old son and a pastor of a church, I have a particular concern and care for the..
Friendship between Virginia and Palestine churches leads to support for the wider community
Guest commentary by Heidi Shott The deep, enduring friendship between the people of Grace Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Virginia, and St. Philip’s..
5th Sunday after Pentecost — July 14, 2019
Amos 7:7-17; Luke 10:25-37 Ordinary 15C; Proper 10 “Amos, what do you see?” “A plumb line.” “What is written in the law?..
2020 Vision Team makes plans for Presbyterians to engage the guiding statement
The 2020 Vision Team is moving ahead with plans to get Presbyterians involved with the guiding statement it has produced – using..
Nuns & Nones helps millennials find surprise soulmates in Catholic sisters
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (RNS) — The Dominican sisters sat in silence, eyes closed, palms upturned, couches and chairs pushed together into a..
Structure and money: Presbyterian special committee thinks big about denomination’s future
Is it time to reconfigure the national structure of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? What do Presbyterians at the mid council level have..
O God, You Give Us Neighbors (a free hymn)
AURELIA 7.6.7.6 D ("The Church's One Foundation”) O God, you give us neighbors for whom your love abounds. They’ve come here seeking..
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown Convergent Books, 192 pages Reviewed by MaryAnn McKibben Dana I’m so thankful to former PC(USA) co-moderators Denise Anderson and..
PC(USA) Washington office preparing to bring church to Congress
(PNS) Located just across the street from the U.S. Capitol building, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness (OPW) staff regularly..
What are you reading?
My spouse owns a T-shirt that sparks jealousy. Procured from the New York Public Library, it asks in bold, block letters: “What..
In a junior high youth group …
In a junior high youth group in West Virginia, the group leader asked, “How do you think God takes care of so..
Presbyterian Outreach Foundation
The Presbyterian Outreach Foundation in Franklin, Tennessee, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. They’ve distributed more than $125 million to more than..
Ibram X. Kendi
“We need to read books that are difficult or unorthodox, that don’t go down easily. Books that force us to confront our..
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