So, what about the YACs?

The 221st General Assembly will have a plateful of potentially explosive matters when it convenes in Detroit in June. It is possible..

Outlook Reporting

Important message to all print subscribers – revised and enlarged from Jack Haberer, editor

I have heard today expressions of deep distress from a number of Outlook friends over the inclusion with the June 9 edition..

Voices

Shall the fundamentalists win?

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) experienced a painful split and divide in the 1920s and 1930s in the midst of the Scopes Trial..

Benedictory

Are you sure you want to bring the confirmation class to GA?

I’VE DONE IT MYSELF — dragged the nine members of the confirmation class to a Saturday presbytery meeting so that 13-year olds..

Outlook Features

On the verge of a 3rd term? Valentine looks back, around, ahead

Interview by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter The 2014 General Assembly is being asked to confirm Linda Valentine for another four-year term..

Outlook Features

The General Assembly in Detroit, 1954: A personal retrospective by David M. Evans

In the fall of 1953, General Dwight David Eisenhower was president of the United States. I was six years old and completely..

Voices

Controversy? Please!

It was early summer 2012, just before the 220th General Assembly. Standing in the kitchen with my mother, I found myself somewhat..

Book Reviews

What’s in a Phrase? Pausing where Scripture Gives You Pause (bookmark)

By Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 112 pages This is a lovely book. I say that in the..

From the Archives

Reformanda

20 years ago — May 30, 1994 “God leads us in and through change. 175 years of The Presbyterian Outlook … ...

He/She Said

Ron Stief

(RNS) “Equating baptism to an act of torture like waterboarding is sacrilegious — and particularly surprising coming from you as someone who..

Presbyterians in Action

Health center and cholera clinic in Haiti

An American doctor from Ohio installed a community health center and cholera clinic in Haiti. Dr. Tracee Laing and her husband, Paul..

In This Corner

There’s a sign….

There’s a sign in a Presbyterian Church whose lot was often filled with Baptists from across the street. The sign read, “Church..

Deaths

Deceased (from the June 9, 2014 issue)

John W. Ackerman, 80, Nov. 22, Minneapolis Alfred E. Brough, 85, Dec. 22, Jacksonville, N.C. Glen H. Burrows, 79, Nov. 29, Delmont,..

Honorably retired

Retirements (from the June 9, 2014 issue)

Emily B. Barker, from temporary supply, First Church, Mount Pleasant, Tenn. David Bremer, from pastor, United Church, Bloomington, Ind. Claire Vonk Brooks,..

Transitions

Transitions (from the June 9, 2014 issue)

Paul Gaug, from member-at-large, Chicago Presbytery, to interim pastor, First Church, Babylon, N.Y. Ian McMullen, from temporary supply to installed pastor, First..

Ordinations

Ordinations (from the June 9, 2014 issue)

Jennifer Suydam, to pastor, First Church, Greene, Iowa, by Presbytery of North Central Iowa Caleb Suydam, to pastor, Central Church, Nevada, Iowa,..

Anniversaries

Anniversaries (from the June 9, 2014 issue)

Central Church, Nevada, Iowa, 150 years

Presbyterian News Service

General Assembly backgrounder: BOP, PILP, PPC, Foundation

An Assembly Committee that only acronym maniacs could love will address items of business related to four of the six national agencies..

Presbyterian News Service

General Assembly backgrounder: congregational vitality

Three initiatives aimed at unifying Presbyterians around ambitious goals in mission and evangelism will receive docket time at the 221st General Assembly of the..

Religion News Service

Pope Francis calls for ‘courage’ toward peace between Israel, Palestine

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis dived into the Middle East peace process on Sunday (June 8), urging the Israeli and Palestinian presidents..

Outlook Reporting

GA to celebrate New Worshipping Communities and Young Adult Volunteers

When the General Assembly convenes Saturday in Detroit, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be celebrating at least two accomplishments – a constellation..

Editorials