Christianity’s shifting structure
In the Pacific Northwest, Dustin Benac writes, is an American Christianity that’s decoupled from Christendom.
In the Pacific Northwest, Dustin Benac writes, is an American Christianity that’s decoupled from Christendom.
For Outlook's May 2023 issue, Editor/Publisher Teri McDowell Ott thinks about innovation.
Why Eric Barreto tells his Greek students to never say, "In the Greek, it says..." while preaching.
“I’m not into religion,” one Twitter user said. “But I’m definitely into that one riff from that one Switchfoot song.”
King’s response to white clergy critics endures as a ‘road map’ for those working on justice and equal rights.
What would faith look like if we embraced "unknowing"?
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
In this lesson, children will explore John 14:15-21 noticing how they are joined to God and to one another through Jesus.
A lesson for May 14, 2023, about Acts 3 and expressing joy.
Daniel Heath pens a prayer for Mother's Day that names the abuse of women and lifts it up to God.
You don’t have to be famous to know the basic key to satisfaction.
Sometimes, you won’t belong, writes recent seminary student Ashley Brown. And that’s ok.
Most of the exhumed bodies have been children’s, but the extreme indoctrination of their parents has shocked clerics and religious analysts.
A Wisconsin bishop had required clergy whose churches were disaffiliating to give up their jobs or their credentials.
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.
If clergy help to create a space of belonging for others, where do we find belonging ourselves, wonders Karie Charlton?
What one late friend taught Aaron Neff about belonging.
Margaret Alsup remembers the lessons she learned as a child in church.
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.
The new “Wonder of Worship” initiative prepares Christian leaders and supports partnering congregations to engage children in corporate worship and thereby nurture their faith.
In this poem, Barbara Wood Gray shares who she experiences God to be.
No matter what I do, I am constantly 'back into the shiva chair.'
Rebecca Gresham remembers her time at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the belonging she felt as a student, young mother and resident.
Pew Research Center released the findings — that also hold true among most of those affiliated with a religion — from its Global Attitudes Survey.
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?