A March (Madness) love letter
Following a sports team is an avocation filled with irrational exuberance and irrational gloom. It offers us no logical explanation about why..
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The Parish Is the Issue: What I Learned and How I Learned It
Loren B. Mead Morehouse Publishing, 144 pages When I sat down to eat with Loren Mead several months ago, I excitedly told..
Atnip announces who will stand with her as vice moderator
Chantal D. Atnip, a ruling elder who since 2005 has served as treasurer of the Synod of the Trinity, announced in December..
PC(USA) participants bring diversity of purpose to UN Commission on the Status of Women
Wanda Beauman (left) and Sharon Gibbons (right) share an interest in advocating for women who have experienced domestic violence. (Photo by Sue..
March for Our Lives and Resource to Address Gun Violence
March for Our Lives and Resource to Address Gun Violence Sandy Hook. Orlando. Las Vegas. Sutherland Springs. And Now Parkland. Mass..
Sacraments in the revised Directory for Worship
“Therefore, let it be regarded as a settled principle,” wrote John Calvin, “that the sacraments have the same office as the Word..
Overcoming our fear of transformative change in the PC(USA)
LOUISVILLE (OGA) Rethinking ministry is difficult. Implementing new ideas and establishing them is even more difficult. We should be acutely aware of this..
Presbyterians advocate for rural women at the UN
Nineteen women of the PC(USA) are participating in the Commission on the Status of Women session at the United Nations in New..
What about the sacraments?
Churches like our own are “challenged more strongly by the sacraments than by anything else,” according to J.J. von Allmen, a Swiss..
Meeting the Spirit while writing a sermon
Sermon-writing day is rough. It’s painful, boring, heart-wrenching, soul-draining, and it makes me whine a lot. Most weeks, I’ll come home one..
To those who are not present
Most Sunday mornings after proclaiming the benediction, I walk with the acolyte down the sanctuary’s center aisle.
Barry and Shelly Dawson
The Yao hill tribe, one of Thailand’s indigenous people groups, live among steep mountains. But 80 baptized Christians host visitors at a..
John Leland
“Being an expert is exhausting. Being a student — letting go of your ego — is like sitting for a banquet at..
60 years ago
60 years ago — March 24, 1958 Here’s what readers were saying about one particular article back in 1958: To the Outlook:..
Participating in worship
Within months of graduating from seminary, I was ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament. I remember the first time I..
American religious leaders seek preliminary injunction to stop deportation of immigrants
Churches like First Presbyterian Church in Metuchen, New Jersey, continue to voice opposition to the arrests of immigrant Christians for possible deportation...
Lord, make me useless
Lately my prayer has been to be useful: Make me useful, God. Where this plea originates during days overflowing with unending tasks..
Katie Geneva Cannon reflects on being first African American woman ordained in the PC(USA)
Katie Geneva Cannon. (Photo provided) LOUISVILLE (PNS) — The Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon was ordained April 24, 1974, in Shelby, North..
When you know your angels — A Lenten reflection
Guest commentary by Jordan B. Davis This year, Lent has had a new and beautiful meaning in my life. For the first..
Fellowship Community National Gathering: A reflection
Guest commentary by Joseph D. Small The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was once blessed and/or cursed by an abundance of special interest organizations..
4th Sunday in Lent — March 11, 2018
Numbers 21:4-9; Ephesians 2:1-10; John 3:14-21 Lent 4B John 3:16. Even in this age when education through memorization has fallen out of..
Presbyterian Historical Society releases rare early video of Fred Rogers’ “Sunday on the Children’s Corner”
PHILADELPHIA (PHS) The Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) has recently transferred to digital video a rare 16mm print of Sunday on the Children’s..
Nepal continues recovery nearly three years after devastating earthquake
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has co-sponsored a number of relief programs through its partners in Nepal to help people recover from the 2016..
Fellowship Community gathering discusses the crossroads of human division
Guest commentary by Jerry Andrews Relationships. Theology. Addressing divisions. These issues were at the forefront of sermons and discussions at the National..
A Presbyterian pastor remembers Billy Graham
Guest commentary by Harry J. Heintz Amidst all that was happening in the world on February 21, Billy Graham died at age..
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