First Presbyterian Church — Broken Bow, Oklahoma
FPC is a 73-member church in rural southeastern Oklahoma. Our last installed pastor retired several years ago, so we rely on pulpit..
FPC is a 73-member church in rural southeastern Oklahoma. Our last installed pastor retired several years ago, so we rely on pulpit..
Alexandra Horowitz Simon and Schuster, New York 321 pages I nominate Alexandra Horowitz as spiritual companion for anyone who desires to see..
LOUISVILLE (OGA) The Reverend J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), announced today that..
Guest commentary by Tara Bulger Recently, an old picture of my daughter and me came across my social media feed. My daughter,..
Acts 17:22-31; John 14:15-21 Easter 6A “If you love me you will keep my commandments.” In this brief passage from John, Jesus..
I am currently part of a formation cohort through my alma mater, Fuller Theological Seminary. As a young female pastor, I’ve had..
by Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. 496 pages Reviewed by Robert L. Montgomery Thomas Friedman’s latest book shows..
(PNS) “We are partners in hard times but also in good times. What does it mean to be partners in hard times?”..
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CHICAGO – Hoping to give the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) a sense of some of the big themes it considers essential – from..
Ministry with young people is irreducibly technological. Perhaps it has never not been so (after all, Paul’s letters to young Timothy employed..
CHICAGO – The Way Forward Commission has begun to chart its next steps – including the question of whether it should draft..
CHICAGO – This was a day of thinking big – about what the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) looks like now and about possibilities..
CHICAGO – Jan Edmiston, co-moderator of the 2016 General Assembly, encouraged of the Way Forward Commission to focus on mission and to..
In her fantastic new book, “Liturgy of the Ordinary,” Tish Harrison Warren describes an all-too-common dynamic of life in the digital age:..
(OGA) There is something so compelling about a thoughtful ninety-year-old asking you questions about God. I was intrigued. Her name was Marion,..
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..
“I don’t have to go out on the road and play in bars. I can be a father and I can be..
Tim and Gloria Wheeler recently ended a lengthy mission partnership in Honduras. One of their projects was helping to install a new..
Years ago at the General Assembly in Houston, a commissioner from John Knox Presbytery registered. When he checked in to his hotel,..
by J. Brent Bill Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 159 pages Reviewed by Emily Berman D’Andrea Quaker author, J. Brent Bill, in his revised..
Let it be known that when I die there is not to be a celebration of my life. There will be a..
I read Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” while in seminary in the 1990s. His prescience blew my mind. First published in 1954,..
I was visiting with the pastor of a church where I was the guest preacher. He lamented that the youth there didn’t..
Ponder these two experiences: A church member calls a fellow church member and asks for a personal meeting. In the meeting, the..