Music’s role in facilitating the paradox of Lent: An individual journey best achieved in community
As we embark on our Lenten journeys each year, we often think of those journeys as personal and private. We enter into..
As we embark on our Lenten journeys each year, we often think of those journeys as personal and private. We enter into..
When I was in seminary we were taught about three basic kinds of sermons. The first is a Yes sermon. It focuses..
A Presbyterian teenager in a large city told his youth group of a rabbi who placed a lamb and a lion in..
Shelvis and Nancy Smith-Mather, mission co-workers in Sudan, tell of a demonstration in a village town square where a group of girls..
“If it is real, it doesn’t need a response. Those comments do not deserve a response.” — Abdirahman Omar Osman, Somali information..
50 years ago — January 29, 1968 A reader’s outlook on the Outlook’s 150th anniversary: Congratulations to the Presbyterian Outlook and on..
The All Agency Review Committee approved Feb. 16 eight recommendations it will make to the 2018 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church..
The 2020 Vision Team has approved its draft guiding statement and its report to the 2018 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church..
The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board will continue conversations with the Way Forward Commission and All Agency Review Committee through Feb. 28 –..
(RNS) — “A child of God is dead.” That message came Wednesday (Feb. 14) not from a religious leader, but from CNN..
Dear colleagues serving on the Way Forward Commission, We write to express our profound concern with the proposal by the Way Forward..
ACCRA, Ghana (PNS) — Videos, recently broadcast on CNN, show the brutal torture of migrants from Sub-Saharan African nations. Men are whipped..
“You are going to disappoint someone this week. Look at your schedule and choose who it will be. And make sure..
Mark 1:9-15 Lent 1B Mark’s Holy Spirit dove does not sit cooing on a nearby branch, placidly watching. No, Mark’s version of..
The Way Forward Commission voted Feb. 15 to approve six recommendations to the 2018 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Three..
“What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God..
LOUISVILLE — As Kathryn Threadgill introduced the Vital Congregations Revitalization initiative to Newark and Trinity presbyteries this month, she felt both fear and..
(PNS) Ash Wednesday turned deadly in Parkland, Florida when a lone gunman opened fire at the Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17..
Joshua W. Jipp Eerdmans, 220 pages Reviewed by Sharon K. Youngs The title is enough to catch one’s attention after commemorating the..
Lord God, on this Ash Wednesday when we repent and turn to the gospel, we once again turn to you with cries..
LOUISVILLE (PNS) — The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People(SDOP) approved grants in 2017 totaling $133,753 to fund six self-help projects..
Lord to whom we belong in life and death, our only comfort, we come before you aware of our failings and awed..
Do we need more leaders like Martin Luther? In the 500th anniversary year of Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses, attention was..
On Feb. 15, the Way Forward Commission is expected to formally vote to approve its recommendations to the 2018 General Assembly —..
A hurricane damaged home in the mountains of western Puerto Rico. (Photo by Rick Jones) LOUISVILLE — The long, slow return to..