A Sunday school teacher in Florida …
A Sunday school teacher in Florida was trying to emphasize the importance of joy. “Cry and the world cries with you,” she..
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First Presbyterian Church in Kingsville, Texas
First Presbyterian Church in Kingsville, Texas, has a good relationship with Presbyterian Pan American High School. They recently worked with Presbyterians in..
Mark Goldring
“Today eight people have the same wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population. Stop and think about this. It is..
Bless to me the handling of my hand – 20 years ago
20 years ago — March 10, 1997 “What if, when you woke in the morning, you sang: ‘Bless to me O God,..
PC(USA) Stated Clerk signs on to ecumenical declaration on behalf of refugees
Ecumenical Declaration: Protecting Welcome, Restoring Hope We representatives of Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican communions in the United States, Church World Service and..
Choi named to new position supporting Korean-speaking councils
(OGA) The Reverend Luke Choi has accepted a call to become the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s manager for Korean-Speaking Councils Support, a new..
Two coats, barn building and the eye of a needle
If often we in the church don’t have much to say about economics, Jesus sure does. The sermon on the plain, a..
The American church’s devil’s bargain
President Trump wants American churches to believe they are making Christianity great again. He has vowed to “destroy” a law banning..
Writing
When people ask what I do for a living I no longer say “seminary professor.” Now, more often than not I say..
Working in a time of change: Presbyterian Mission Agency Board considers changes
Conversations continue about ideas for reconfiguring the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board – with no consensus yet, but some potential points of..
PC(USA) asks administration to respond to Puerto Rico economic crisis
February 28, 2017 President Donald Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Trump and Congressional Leaders:..
Inside Edna
Guest commentary by Matt Schmidt I am sleeping inside the 71-degree womb of Edna, a climate-controlled, robotic arthropod — a giant mechanical..
1st Sunday in Lent – March 5, 2017
Genesis 2:15-17; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11 Lent 1A Limits or limitlessness, these are the options before us this first Sunday of Lent...
ACSWP and Foothills Presbytery hold conversations on church’s public witness
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. – Teams from the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy(ACSWP) and Foothills Presbytery in upstate South Carolina met Saturday, February 18 through Tuesday,..
Big Tent 2017 to focus on ‘Race, Reconciliation and Reformation’
(PNS) Presbyterians from around the country are invited to live out their faith at Big Tent 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. This biennial gathering will..
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse Basic Books, New York. 384 pages Over the past several decades Americans have debated whether the nation was..
Presbyterians stand with Jewish community after cemetery vandalism, threats
(PNS) Vandalism in two Jewish cemeteries in recent weeks has not only caused concern in the Jewish community, but also among interfaith partners..
Remembering: An Ash Wednesday reflection
I have held the last of what remains of an earthly life in my hands, whole people now only ashes, years of..
Presbyterian Ministry at the UN prepares for Commission on the Status of Women
(PNS) The 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women will soon begin at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Commission..
What makes space sacred?
I once lived on the edge of a small town in Europe. Near my apartment was a graying church whose heavy, wooden..
Learning forgiveness
Guest Outpost blog by Jeffrey A. Schooley “But he didn’t say anything, and neither did she. Not because the words were deliberately..
The end of denominationalism
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul harks back to an earlier conflict in a congregation in Antioch. Members new to the..
‘Hidden Figures’ heroine, Katherine Johnson, honored at Oscars
(PNS) Although “Hidden Figures,” the film about three female African-American mathematicians who were integral to the early days of NASA’s space program, didn’t..
Union Presbyterian Church — St. Peter, Minnesota
I’ve always thought of my church as an extended family. And families — however loving and well intentioned they are — take work! I grew up working alongside..
Fellowship Community digs deep and reaches wide
Two hundred pastors, elders and church members gathered February 21-23 in Lakeland, Florida, for the annual national conference of The Fellowship..
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