Presbyterian clergy and leaders fast to protest Wendy’s restaurant chain

LOUISVILLE (PNS) – Fasting clergy and staff from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) joined with congregation and community members for a vigil at..

Looking into the lectionary

3rd Sunday after Epiphany — January 21, 2018

Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Mark 1:14-20 God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh and proclaim God’s message. Check. The people of Nineveh hear..

Outlook Reporting

Line by line, Way Forward Commission seeks the right words and ideas for the PC(USA)

SEATTLE – What’s still to be done? What are the right words for the report? The Way Forward Commission, meeting Jan. 17-19..

Book Reviews

The Crossed Hands of God: The World War I Diary and Letters of Eugene William McLaurin

Jerry R. Tompkins, editor Resource Publications, 178 pages The ugly brutalities of war are best told by eyewitnesses so the danger of..

Voices

In defense of the back-up-plan prayer

Recently, following worship, a congregant had a seizure before leaving the church. I was still in the sanctuary talking with some folks..

Outlook Reporting

Way Forward Commission moves step-by-step through GA report

SEATTLE – The Way Forward Commission began on Jan. 17 the work of outlining what it wants to include in its report..

News from other sources

Churches worldwide prepare for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

(WCC) From 18-25 January, Christians across the world will bear witness to Jesus’s prayer for his disciples that “they may be one..

News from other sources

Presbyterians and allies to walk 260 miles to PC(USA) General Assembly to ask for church divestment from fossil fuels

(PRESS RELEASE) The effects of fossil fuels on our world and its people are dramatic--and so is the action many will take this..

Presbyterian News Service

Flor Vélez-Díaz named Manager of Judicial Process for PC(USA)

(PNS) Flor N. Vélez-Díaz, a lifelong Presbyterian and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, native, has been appointed manager of judicial process in the Office of..

Outlook Reporting

“This is a time for reform,” J. Herbert Nelson tells the Way Forward Commission

SEATTLE – As the Way Forward Commission began its Jan. 17-19 meeting in Seattle – a meeting at which the commission is..

Outlook Features

Learning to accept the gift of prayer

“Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1b). This heartfelt request of the disciples still resonates within us today. Their desire to know..

Editorials

A pattern in Presbyterian presidents

Andrew Jackson, whose presidency is marked by the Indian Removal Act, was a Presbyterian. He was also a slaveholder. One might, of..

Outlook Reporting

J. Herbert Nelson charges Seattle Presbytery to “gravitate to an ethos of possibility and hope”

SEATTLE – J. Herbert Nelson, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is challenging Presbyterians to “gravitate to an ethos of possibility..

Presbyterian News Service

Regarding ruling elders: Offering prayer

(OGA) He prayed for us. Harry came over and prayed for us. It was a small, extraordinary act of kindness, for which..

Presbyterian News Service

Southern California communities devastated by recent mudslides

(PNS) Residents of Montecito, Ventura and Santa Barbara are still reeling from the recent mudslides that have left residents dead, injured and..

Prayers for the moment

Created by God and called good: A prayer

In the beginning you spoke, Creator and creative God. You summoned light and order, called forth a multitude of life, looked upon..

Presbyterian News Service

Montreat College Conference calls students ‘home’

(PNS) With “Home” as its theme, the 2018 Montreat College Conference (Jan. 2-5, 2018) urged students and their ministry leaders to consider..

Voices

Confessions of a type A pray-er

I remember when I was in seminary when a friend asked me to pray for him. “I’m only asking you,” he said,..

Religion News Service

On King holiday, religious groups look to 50th anniversary of assassination

(RNS) Religious groups are planning more than the annual holiday celebrations that note the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr...

Outlook Features

Pray like a Reformer

The anniversary is over – now down to business. Welcome to 2018 – the year after the 500th anniversary of the Reformation...

Hymns

What Good Can Come from Nazareth? (a hymn)

“What Good Can Come from Nazareth?” AURELIA 7.6.7.6 D ("The Church's One Foundation") “What good can come from Nazareth? Can any good..

Looking into the lectionary

2nd Sunday after Epiphany — January 14, 2018

1 Samuel 3:1-19 (11-20); John 1:43-51 “See for yourself,” Philip tells a skeptical Nathanael. Philip cannot contain his excitement over meeting Jesus,..