Unsettling Leaders: Why Would We Follow?
For years, we have participated in conversations about leadership—a desire for better leaders, more entrepreneurial leaders, adaptive leaders. Too often, our conversations..
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World Vision to recognize employees’ same-sex marriages
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) Christian relief organization World Vision has announced that it will no longer define marriage as between a man..
Pew research: Pope Francis hugely popular with U.S. Catholics
by Jim Nedelka NEW YORK (PNS) A key Roman Catholic tenet holds that the Pope is the head of their church on Earth,..
Philadelphia Presbytery breaks the mold
After two rejections, presbytery looked inward — and found a candidate who sensed God’s call. When Ruth Santana-Grace looked across the room..
March 31, 2014: Digital issue for subscribers
The digital issue of the Presbyterian Outlook's March 31, 2014 issue is now available! It is viewable on almost all computers, tablets, and smartphones...
Bookmark – Theology of Mission: A Believers Church Perspective
Theology of Mission: A Believers Church Perspective by John Howard Yoder. Edited by Gayle Gerber Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker IVP. Downers’ Grove,..
Film in review: “3 Days to Kill”
Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) has spent all his adult life working undercover for the CIA. He’s done it all. In between, he..
Bookmark: Practicing Presence in an Age of Distraction
Practicing Presence in an Age of Distraction by Diane M. Mills Skylight Paths Press, Woodstock, Vt. 150 pages. The author believes that..
Film in review: “Pompeii”
“For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the..
Moderator’s Colloquium on Ecclesiology: The value of dialogue
by Rocky Supinger A colloquium is a buttoned-up thing. Professors in blazers present scholarly papers to a small audience that takes hand-written..
Evangelicals ask, “What would Jesus do at the Checkpoint?”
Over 600 Christians of more than 20 nationalities traveled to the West Bank city of Bethlehem last week to participate in the..
A Star and a Tear
by Stephen McCutchan Amazon Digital Services. 398 pages. Reviewed by ED WHITE Stephen McCutchan has done a wonderful job of using the..
What in the World is Going On, For Heaven’s Sake? with Jack Haberer
April 26, 2014 9am - noon in Deerfield, Ill. What in the World is Going On, For Heaven’s Sake? A conversation with..
A presbytery is born: Presbytery of Northwest Coast joins North Puget Sound, nine churches in southeast Alaska
By Jerry L. Van Marter LOUISVILLE (PNS) On March 15 ― three months after it was created by a merger of the..
Quarterly Senior Ordination Exams to begin in July
By Tim Cargal In May of 2013, the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates (PCC) announced its plan to move to..
Alban Institute, a resource for mainline institutions, to shutter
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) As mainline Protestant denominations continue decades of decline, one of the main institutions helping educate its leaders..
Does Hobby Lobby have religious rights? The Supreme Court will decide
By Lauren Markoe WASHINGTON (RNS) The Green family that owns the Hobby Lobby craft store chain believes the federal government ran roughshod..
Christian leaders urge dialogue with Nigeria’s violent Boko Haram
By Fredrick Nzwili (RNS) For five years, bombs and bullets from Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram have ripped through churches and their..
“Houston, we have a problem”
Those five words, expressed on April 14, 1970, by moon-circling astronauts, mobilized the folks back home at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Due..
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Cuban church leaders press for normalization with U.S.
by Bethany Daily LOUISVILLE (PNS) Growing religious freedom and a vibrant religious community, as well as strong relationships between Cuban and U.S...
Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green stands on faith against Obamacare mandate
by Cathy Lynn Grossman (RNS) Once Steve Green sets his path, there’s no turning back. Not when he and his high school..
A port after the storm: Small New Jersey church serves as local headquarters for Hurricane Sandy recovery
by Toni Montgomery, special to Presbyterian News Service STATESVILLE, N.C. (PNS) Nearly a year and a half after Hurricane Sandy, the work of..
Pentimento
Stuck in the pages of my Bible — next to the flyleaf, crumpled amongst the Psalms, slipped in between maps of Paul’s..
The ten best parts
Carol Howard Merritt wrote a beautiful piece a few weeks ago about the great things about being a pastor. It got me..
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