News from other sources

The Board of Pensions bulletin summer 2024

A summary of the summer meeting of the Board of Pensions' board of directors.

Voices

Overcoming biases: Navigating secular employment as a bivocational pastor

Packard N. Brown offers strategies for demonstrating your value and transferring skills across work cultures.

Weekly Liturgy

Order of worship — August 4, 2024

You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.

Outlook Standard Lessons

Christ’s love in God’s kin-dom (August 4, 2024)

Shea Watts explores the discrepancy between Christianity as an intellectual project and Christianity as a lived reality.

Looking into the lectionary

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost — August 4, 2024

"A piece of bread, an ounce of juice. It looks pretty meager. It looks like what’s on this table isn’t enough. But it is." — John Wurster

Image of Patricia Tull's Let Justice Roll Down, a Presbyterian Women's Horizons Bible Study

Outlook Horizons Studies

Horizons — Environmental justice

Rosalind Banbury's first reflection on the 2024-2025 Presbyterian Women/Horizons Bible Study.

Book Reviews

Books you should know

Outlook Book Review Editor Amy Pagliarella offers a list of books to add to your "must-read" list.

Outlook Reporting

#GA226 triumphs and icks

Bethany Peerbolte interviewed the #GA226 Young Adult Advisory Delegates about what they believe is the PC(USA)'s greatest triumphs and where there is still room to grow.

Book Reviews

Looking Up: A Birder’s Guide to Hope through Grief

That is what this book is ultimately about: becoming a person fully alive; present to creation and present to other human beings, particularly those who are suffering. — Roy Howard

Presbyterian News Service

Acting Stated Clerk condemns violence at Trump rally

Bronwen Boswell calls for a peaceful political season.

Religion News Service

Five faith facts about Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance

If Trump is elected, Vance would be the second Catholic vice president in US history — after Joe Biden.

Editorials

Teaching Reformed theology in Trump’s America: The Barmen Declaration and the far-right evangelical culture war

Progressive Christians read Barmen as a rejection of Christian nationalism, writes Theologian David W. Congdon. Conservatives view it as supporting their fight against a fascist administration. Where's the truth?

Voices

God did not save Donald Trump

"I’m glad Donald Trump is alive, and I’m quite confident God is, too. But my understanding of Christian theology makes me certain that God did not save the former president from assassination," writes Shane Claiborne.

Religion News Service

Faith leaders, politicians invoke God’s protection for Trump in wake of shooting

Many also asked for prayers for the country as a whole and the polarized political landscape.

News from other sources

McCormick Theological Seminary Names Rev. Dr. Maisha I. Handy as its 12th President

A progressive leader among American seminaries, Rev. Dr. Handy becomes McCormick’s first African American president, succeeding newly retired David Crawford who positioned McCormick for a sustainable future.