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..

Book Reviews

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..

Presbyterian News Service

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..

Book Reviews

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..

Presbyterian News Service

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..

News from other sources

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..

Book Reviews

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..

Voices

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..

Voices

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..

Looking into the lectionary

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?..

Outlook Reporting

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..

Religion News Service

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..

Outlook Reporting

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..

Hymns

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..

Book Reviews

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..

Presbyterian News Service

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..

Insights columns

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 This Corner

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..

Presbyterians in Action

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..

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