Christianity’s shifting structure
In the Pacific Northwest, Dustin Benac writes, is an American Christianity that’s decoupled from Christendom.
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The church as creative space
For Outlook's May 2023 issue, Editor/Publisher Teri McDowell Ott thinks about innovation.
Mastery is a falsehood, especially in theology
Why Eric Barreto tells his Greek students to never say, "In the Greek, it says..." while preaching.
20 years ago, Switchfoot unleashed the riff that changed Christian rock
“I’m not into religion,” one Twitter user said. “But I’m definitely into that one riff from that one Switchfoot song.”
60 years on, King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ relevant as ever, say faith leaders
King’s response to white clergy critics endures as a ‘road map’ for those working on justice and equal rights.
Sixth Sunday of Easter — May 14, 2023
What would faith look like if we embraced "unknowing"?
Order of worship — May 14, 2023
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
United in and through God — Weekly Christian ed lesson
In this lesson, children will explore John 14:15-21 noticing how they are joined to God and to one another through Jesus.
Jumping for joy (May 14, 2023)
A lesson for May 14, 2023, about Acts 3 and expressing joy.
A Mother’s Day prayer inspired by womanist theology
Daniel Heath pens a prayer for Mother's Day that names the abuse of women and lifts it up to God.
What Rainn Wilson learned in his last days of being Dwight Schrute
You don’t have to be famous to know the basic key to satisfaction.
You don’t need to feel called to belong in seminary
Sometimes, you won’t belong, writes recent seminary student Ashley Brown. And that’s ok.
As death toll mounts in Kenya church, local clergy wonder at scale of indoctrination
Most of the exhumed bodies have been children’s, but the extreme indoctrination of their parents has shocked clerics and religious analysts.
UMC top court rules disaffiliating clergy don’t automatically lose credentials
A Wisconsin bishop had required clergy whose churches were disaffiliating to give up their jobs or their credentials.
The goal of theological education should be to facilitate gathering
How can we imagine theological education beyond the false goals of possession, mastery and control? Eric D. Barreto and Willie James Jennings offer their thoughts.
Where do clergy find belonging?
If clergy help to create a space of belonging for others, where do we find belonging ourselves, wonders Karie Charlton?
The gift of an invitation
What one late friend taught Aaron Neff about belonging.
What the church of my childhood taught me about love
Margaret Alsup remembers the lessons she learned as a child in church.
AI has social consequences, but who pays the price? Tech companies’ problem with ‘ethical debt’
Just as technical debt can result from limited testing during the development process, ethical debt results from not considering possible negative consequences or societal harms. And with ethical debt in particular, the people who incur it are rarely the people who pay for it in the end.
Columbia Theological Seminary recieves $1.24 Million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to establish “Wonder of Worship” program
The new “Wonder of Worship” initiative prepares Christian leaders and supports partnering congregations to engage children in corporate worship and thereby nurture their faith.
That’s the one
In this poem, Barbara Wood Gray shares who she experiences God to be.
How has the Tree of Life shooting changed my life? One victim’s impact statement.
No matter what I do, I am constantly 'back into the shiva chair.'
A season of intentional living
Rebecca Gresham remembers her time at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the belonging she felt as a student, young mother and resident.
Most adults in US, 16 other nations say belief in God, morality not always linked
Pew Research Center released the findings — that also hold true among most of those affiliated with a religion — from its Global Attitudes Survey.
Belonging in the children’s church
A child wearing brown loafers and no socks (just like his father), reading a Bible in Sunday worship (just like his father) — What can this boy teach us about belonging?
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