Hallelujah. The General Assembly Mission Council is going to meet its budget without cutting staff (see p. 7). Now that we’re not in a state of crisis, let’s talk turkey about our giving. Let’s think theologically about our financial management. Let’s handle our money like the Presbyterian and Reformed – P&R – believers we claim to be.
LOUISVILLE — What role should advocacy and advisory committees play in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? And what can be done to improve the sometimes-touchy relationship between the General Assembly Mission Council and these committees, which advocate the interests of women and racial ethnic people and social witness in the life of the Presbyterian church?
LOUISVILLE – The 2010 budget for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be balanced without more staff cuts — a relief for the denomination’s national staff, which has endured several rounds of layoffs.
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian News Service is a “high priority and essential function” of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and “offers the most reliable means the church has to get its story out,” a task force studying the news service has reported.
LOUISVILLE — The Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) “remains poorly understood and supported by much of the church, and a source of controversy within it,” a study group considering the future of the office has reported.
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) should add the Belhar Confession, written by Christians in South Africa on the themes of reconciliation and repentance, to The Book of Confessions.
Police officers. We drive past them on the street, hoping we are not violating the speed limit.
Thirty-five years ago, on a New Year’s holiday from my divinity studies at St. Andrews, I made a pilgrimage to Geneva.
Saul, the son of Kish, was the kind of a young man who smiles out at you from catalogue covers.
As I opened “My Pastoral Record” I first turned to the section listing baptisms. There it was, my first baptism, November 13, 1977.
Now here’s an interesting piece of theology.
By Louis B. Weeks Alban, 2009. Pb.,170 pp. $18.
Pastor Appreciation
In the gospels it seems as if Jesus saw blindness everywhere he looked. And time and again, we are told, he healed sightless people.
Social networking tools are all the rage, but do they hold promise for faith communities?
New movie reviews by Ronald Salfen,
It doesn’t sound very interesting: guy’s wife dies, he finds himself raising their six-year-old son.
Is it possible to stage a horror comedy?
What, a serious movie about women in a roller derby?
Telling the truth is a hard thing to do. The preliminary report of the Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage (S.C.) tells the truth with stunning, spectacular clarity.
LOUISVILLE – The special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Unions and Christian Marriage unanimously approved on September 17 a draft of its report to the 2010 General Assembly – minus any recommendations.
APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VA. — The murdered body of Mark Niederbrock, 50, pastor of Walker’s Presbyterian Church in Hixburg, Va., was found on September 18, along with three other bodies.
LOUISVILLE — Fans of Westminster John Knox Press’ “Feasting on the Word” series can now to take a bite out of the latest installment. The sixth volume was released Oct. 1.
Lewis S. Mudge, a scholar and theologian whose breadth of interests and expertise enriched virtually every corner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the global ecumenical movement, died in his sleep Sept. 11 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He would have turned 80 on Oct. 22.
A steep membership decline. A state of theological impasse. A dysfunctional debate over ordination. Congregations leaving the denomination, splintering our fragile unity. With these realities in mind, people ask me if the Presbyterian Church has a future.
© Copyright 2026 The Presbyterian Outlook. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Statement. Website by Web Publisher PRO