A transgender priest finds a new life helping others on the margins

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — In the makeshift chapel at Constance Abbey, an Episcopal way station for the homeless here, Mother Gillian Klee..

Presbyterian News Service

OGA delegation finds resilience and hope among church leaders in Puerto Rico

LOUISVILLE — A delegation from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of the General Assembly recently returned from a visit to Puerto Rico..

Outlook Features

Addiction and recovery: Presbyterian congregations respond to opioid epidemic

Robert Hedges, a Presbyterian minister who leads the Resurrection Power recovery ministry in Washington, Pennsylvania, describes the work he does as “the..

Outlook Reporting

Up and running: Reconfigured Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), A Corporation, board convenes for its first meeting

LOUISVILLE – The newly-reconfigured board of the Presbyterian Church (U.SA.), A Corporation, is up and running – and the list of questions..

Editorials

What’s in a number?

Have you ever asked Google to reveal the statistics on your community? Thinking of the upcoming census in 2020 got me curious..

Presbyterian News Service

10 worshiping communities awarded Mission Program Grants

Robbins Memorial Chapel, which is home to a new worshiping community at Davis & Elkins College, is the architectural and spiritual focal..

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Voices

Finding an alternative to “incarnational ministry”

Guest commentary by Merwyn S. Johnson I seek to navigate through the rocky shoals of being Presbyterian and Christian today. By all..

Looking into the lectionary

15th Sunday after Pentecost — September 2, 2018

James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Ordinary 22B; Proper 17 What matters in a life of faith? Which is more important: following..

Presbyterian News Service

Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico continue long road to recovery one year after hurricanes

(PNS) It’s been a year since a trio of hurricanes wreaked havoc on Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, leaving a path of..

Voices

Approaching the table with dirty hands

Our house has a resident theologian with dirty hands. Her age hasn’t even reached the double digits yet, but she attended seminary..

Book Reviews

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans Thomas Nelson, 240 pages Reviewed by T.J. Remaley If there’s one thing that Rachel Held Evans sets out to..

News from other sources

Religious typology – New data from Pew Research

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Pew Research Center Press Release) – Most U.S. adults identify with a particular religious denomination or group. They describe themselves..

Voices

Let’s say that we are more than our tragedies and our triumphs

Unlike that brashness of the snowcapped peaks out West, the Blue Ridge Mountains are elder statemen, gently sloped and quietly easing across..

Insights columns

In praise of the pastor’s wife

Do you remember the proverbial “pastor’s wife”? My mother and grandmother, like countless women through the years, studied alongside their husbands at..

Outlook Horizons Studies