Way Forward plans midterm report

CHICAGO – Hoping to give the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) a sense of some of the big themes it considers essential – from..

Outlook Features

Cultivating the gospel in social media

Ministry with young people is irreducibly technological. Perhaps it has never not been so (after all, Paul’s letters to young Timothy employed..

Outlook Reporting

The Way Forward Commission looks ahead to next steps

CHICAGO – The Way Forward Commission has begun to chart its next steps – including the question of whether it should draft..

Outlook Reporting

The Way Forward thinks big in Chicago

CHICAGO – This was a day of thinking big – about what the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) looks like now and about possibilities..

Outlook Reporting

Way Forward Commission begins work with visit from co-moderator Jan Edmiston

CHICAGO – Jan Edmiston, co-moderator of the 2016 General Assembly, encouraged of the Way Forward Commission to focus on mission and to..

Outlook Features

Practicing Sabbath in the digital age

In her fantastic new book, “Liturgy of the Ordinary,” Tish Harrison Warren describes an all-too-common dynamic of life in the digital age:..

Presbyterian News Service

Finding a closer walk with God (Regarding ruling elders: a monthly series for spiritual leaders)

(OGA) There is something so compelling about a thoughtful ninety-year-old asking you questions about God. I was intrigued. Her name was Marion,..

Presbyterian News Service

PC(USA) co-moderators to lead plenary session at Big Tent

Co-moderators of the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), T. Denise Anderson and Jan Edmiston. (Photo by Danny Bolin) (PNS) The..

He/She Said

Peter Hollens

“I don’t have to go out on the road and play in bars. I can be a father and I can be..

Presbyterians in Action

Tim and Gloria Wheeler

Tim and Gloria Wheeler recently ended a lengthy mission partnership in Honduras. One of their projects was helping to install a new..

In This Corner

At the General Assembly in Houston…

Years ago at the General Assembly in Houston, a commissioner from John Knox Presbytery registered. When he checked in to his hotel,..

Book Reviews

Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality

by J. Brent Bill Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 159 pages Reviewed by Emily Berman D’Andrea Quaker author, J. Brent Bill, in his revised..

Insights columns

Celebration or witness to the resurrection?

Let it be known that when I die there is not to be a celebration of my life. There will be a..

Editorials

Can cyber-space be sacred space?

I read Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” while in seminary in the 1990s. His prescience blew my mind. First published in 1954,..

Benedictory

Up in the balcony

I was visiting with the pastor of a church where I was the guest preacher. He lamented that the youth there didn’t..

Insights columns

Storytelling is stewardship ministry

Ponder these two experiences: A church member calls a fellow church member and asks for a personal meeting. In the meeting, the..

Presbyterian News Service

Powerful storms cause problems in the Midwest and South

LOUISVILLE (PNS) A series of storms in the past few weeks have caused a number of problems for residents across the Midwest..

Presbyterian News Service

Montreat College President Maurer responds to recent criticism

LOUISVILLE (PNS) In response to media outlets, including Presbyterian News Service, reporting Montreat College’s disaffiliation from the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU)..

Those with ears to hear (music reviews)

22, A Million

Bon Iver Following the break up of his band and a relationship, Justin Vernon retreated to a secluded cabin in Wisconsin. Over..

Looking into the lectionary

5th Sunday of Easter – May 14, 2017

John 14:1-14 Easter 5 What was Jesus’ tone in these 14 verses of John’s Gospel? That’s one of the challenges of a..

From the Archives

50 years ago — May 8, 1967

Are traditional Christian convictions about vocation becoming outdated? “We need to ask about the dilemma of the unemployed – whether customary modes..