Battling Ebola with prayer and accurate information

LOUISVILLE (PNS) When Quianaca Wesseh called his son, mother, and sister in Liberia’s Maryland County last week, he urged them not to go..

Voices

The secret to awesome children’s ministry

Of all of the mythical ways to grow a church (Start a contemporary worship service! Call a pastor with a young family!..

Outlook Features

Seminaries & the church: Moving forward

The number one goal at summer camp for my teenage son, Garrison, was to skipper a Lightning, a 19-foot-long fully rigged sailing..

Presbyterian News Service

Regarding ruling elders: Finding your voice as a ruling elder

LOUISVILLE (PNS) “The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles ... calls women and men to all ministries of the Church”..

Religion News Service

Why same-sex marriage is expected to heat up this election among evangelicals

(RNS) As more states affirm same-sex marriage, U.S. evangelicals continue to wrestle with homosexuality, setting boundaries for what’s acceptable and what’s not,..

Religion News Service

U.S. Ebola survivor donates his blood to another stricken missionary

(RNS) An American physician who contracted Ebola while working in a West African hospital has received a blood transfusion from another American..

Editorials

Back to the pastorate

I never intended to earn a Masters of Divinity degree. As a 24-year-old, nondenominational fundapentacharisgelical, my faith mentors and peers disdained the..

Presbyterian News Service

Going solar in West Virginia

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.V. (PNS) Presbyterian church in West Virginia just got 60 solar energy panels installed on its roof for $1, thanks to a..

Book Reviews

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life

by Nancy Koester William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. 371 pages The Antebellum Period of the 1840s and 50s in..

Voices

Permitting the polarization to polarize us

Guest commentary from Todd McCoy Perhaps many of you have been pondering the same question I have: “Given the ongoing polarization of..

Religion News Service

“In Defense of Christians” seeks to protect brethren from Egypt to Iraq

(RNS) Watching ancient Christian communities stand nearly defenseless as Islamic militants roll across swaths of the Middle East, coalitions of Christians are banding together to sound..

Presbyterian News Service

Seeking forgiveness in Hudson River Presbytery

SCARBOROUGH, N.Y. (PNS) "I am here to ask for forgiveness from the presbytery and particularly those members of it who I harmed by..

Presbyterian News Service

When Stewardship Is an Act of Public Witness

LOUISVILLE (PNS) The New Testament portrays a church composed primarily of the poor, the powerless, the outcast. Paul reminds the Corinthians: “Not..

Presbyterian News Service

Grace Presbytery, Highland Park Presbyterian Church settle lawsuit

DALLAS (PNS) Highland Park Presbyterian Church here will pay $7.8 million to Grace Presbytery in order to obtain both a release of its..

Outlook Features

Coming to America: From Bollywood to Hollywood — listening to God’s missionary call

PASADENA, CALIF – “I was 18 years old when God called me to America,” explained Sam Theophylus, born in Hyderabad, India. “I didn’t know what it..

Voices

It’s a sin to bore a kid

I was at a presbytery meeting recently, and, because all of our options for childcare fell through, I brought my 10-year-old son..

Outlook Features

Multicultural church for the real world

Most American churches have sought to diversify their membership in recent decades so that that the 21st century faith community would better..

Voices

The magic quilt

In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul urges the church to take care lest their liberty (the liberty to eat food offered to idols..

Webinar Replay

Worshipping in Advent: From Darkness to Light

A 90-minute Presbyterian Outlook webinar Recorded Tuesday, October 21, 2014 featuring Kimberly Long and Eric Wall Advent is a journey from darkness to light. During..

News from other sources

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary mourns Professor Johannes Swart

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary is mourning the loss of the Rev. Dr. Johannes G. J. Swart, associate professor of world mission and evangelism...

Religion News Service

InterVarsity group sanctioned at two dozen college campuses

(RNS) A well-established international Christian student group is being denied recognition at almost two dozen California college campuses because it requires leaders..