Doubt is the road to faith

In this season of gratitude and anxious waiting, I will be giving thanks for the gift of doubt. After all, it’s what..

Kevin A. Miller

“What we have is people with up-to-the-millisecond Twitter feeds but not really thinking deeply and reflectively very often, and that’s critical to..

Presbyterians in Action

Presbyterian Outreach Foundation

In 2015, the Presbyterian Outreach Foundation set up a special Christmas projects list. It included Bibles, crisis nurseries, bicycles for evangelists and..

In This Corner

A Presbyterian mother …

A Presbyterian mother asked her 8-year-old son what they were learning in Sunday school. He answered, “We’re talking about the kings and..

Editorials

Come, Lord Jesus

I am tired of waiting for Jesus. The wrangling of a national election that had the tenor of a raunchy reality show,..

Voices

Interim pastors: In the congregation, but not of the congregation

My confirmation class mentor was the first person to teach me the notion that Christians are called to be in the..

From the Archives

The fortunate pilgrims – 30 years ago

30 years ago — November 17, 1986 “Despite the religious origin of a day of thanksgiving, the dates for celebrating it, in this..

Benedictory

Lord, do you not care?

SHE DOES NOT SEEM to have stepped out of her place. “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left..

Presbyterian News Service

PMAB Task Force seeks advice on members’ external committee commitments

LOUISVILLE (PNS) – The Governance Task Force of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is seeking input from..

Those with ears to hear (music reviews)

One Wild Life: Body (Gungor)

For a while now I’ve had it on my radar – a review of Gungor’s “One Wild Life: Body.” The inner dialogue..

Voices

Is justification by faith justifying racism? A word from the Prophet Bonhoeffer

Guest commentary by Samuel Son For five Sundays, the new worshipping community that I serve (New Life Triangle) did a series..

Looking into the lectionary

November 20, 2016 – Christ the King Sunday

Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 23:33-43 This is the Sunday we make explicit what is true every Sunday and every day: Christ is King...

Outlook Reporting

PMA committee discusses De La Rosa’s contract, meeting in Puerto Rico and amending Open Meeting policy

LOUISVILLE (Outlook) – The executive committee of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board is recommending that the full board renew Tony De..

Presbyterian News Service

Young Adult Volunteer program adds Albuquerque site for 2017-18

(PNS) The Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) announced today the addition of Albuquerque as a new site for its..

Book Reviews

Encountering God in Tyrannical Texts: Reflections on Paul, Women, and the Authority of Scripture

by Frances Taylor Gench Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 212 pages Reviewed by James Elisha Taneti During the last three decades,..

Voices

Edgy improv groups

The Monday before last as I was driving home from one of my church’s Bible studies, I heard a comedienne interviewed on..

Presbyterian News Service

Regarding ruling elders: After session service

LOUISVILLE (OGA) The congregation I serve has a lot of ruling elders, and at no time is this more evident than on Ordination..

Presbyterian News Service

When incivility becomes the norm

This statement is a response by J. Herbert Nelson, stated clerk of the PC(USA), to the violence on America’s streets after the..

Outlook Features

The “freely flowing river” — A 21st century Reformed confession

by Brandon Frick A while back, I was teaching a course on the Theological Declaration of Barmen. What began as an initially..

What's right?

McLeod Memorial Presbyterian Church – Bartow, Florida

We started as a mission church and incorporated in 1946 as a Presbyterian congregation. Mission has been in our blood, so to..

Presbyterian News Service

PMAB moves forward with transfer of operations of Ghost Ranch from PMA to National Ghost Ranch Foundation

LOUISVILLE (PNS) – The action required to transfer the operations of the Ghost Ranch Conference & Education Center from the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA)..

Outlook Features

The joys (and anxieties) of an unrealized ecclesiology

Several years ago, half quixotically and half courageously, I temporarily left full-time ministry to pursue a Ph.D. in systematic theology. Like many..