This summer, General Assembly commissioners will vote on amending the "Book of Order" to include sexual orientation and gender identity among the categories against which the PC(USA) will not discriminate.
Nadine Ellsworth-Moran visited Berlin in 1990. Her host, a friend of a friend of a friend, taught her about the tenuous ties that bind us — and the gift of radical hospitality.
There's what we can't see, writes Dartinia Hull, and there is what we don't see.
In each issue of the Outlook, we include a discussion guide to further reflect on the issue. We recommend using this guide in your Bible study, small group or book club. It's our invitation into a faithful conversation.
Artificial intelligence reflects our imperfections, but that is not the whole story, writes Katy Shevel.
Andrew Taylor-Troutman reflects on the care, life and grief he witnessed as the life of a parishioner came to an end.
Psychologist and theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes encounters her tenth grade self in Beyoncé’s latest album, "Cowboy Carter."
Alan Olson called Amazon customer service expecting to pour out his righteous anger. Instead, he encountered an employee who taught him about grace.
"'Trash' makes the case that poverty and racism are part of the plan, not unintended by-products of the American experiment. This can be tough to hear, which is, perhaps, why it is often dismissed as misguided 'wokeness' rather than respectfully debated." — Amy Pagliarella
The recently amended "Book of Order" mandates privacy protection for accused abusers, even when a case involves minors or adults who lack mental capacity. There’s a group wanting to change this, writes James S. Evinger.
Former President Trump's promotion of the "God Bless the USA Bible" desecrates the sacred in the name of profit and politics, writes Emery J. Cummins.
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
Brendan McLean writes on Romans 3:21-30.
"All manner of things are not well," writes Carol Holbrook Prickett. "Yet, I have seen nothing more rule-breaking, more transforming than God’s love ... and the people who carry it to one another."
In this lesson, children will explore Jesus’ definition of friendship and will consider how it might play out in their lives.
New Harmony, Charleston Atlantic presbyteries unanimously affirm the Rev. Tony Larson and the Rev. CeCe Armstrong.
Rosalind Banbury's ninth reflection on the 2023-2024 Presbyterian Women/Horizons Bible Study.
If worship is meant to be a 'work of the people,' how can we welcome everyone, including those who disrupt our expectations? — Rebecca Gresham
If enacted, the Texas ‘show me your papers’ policy would follow a similar national trend.
Even after the departures, 24% of North Carolina clergy remaining in the denomination disagree with allowing LGBTQ people to get married and ordained within the denomination.
Morales is a hospice chaplain and pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Liberty City, Florida.
It’s difficult to produce a unified budget proposal two years in advance without knowing more about potential impacts, A Corp President Kathy Lueckert tells the board.
Michael Parker recalls the life of missionary and New Testament scholar Kenneth Bailey, who depicted Jesus as a “metaphorical theologian.”
The great ecological flood of global warming is sweeping life away, writes Raymond R. Roberts, but we are not without options or hope.
"Throughout, [Thomas] constructs what Christianity needs more of: language that honors the best of Christian traditions while fearlessly raising the challenges that an authentic, 21st century American faith demands." — Sarah S. Scherschligt
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