Seventh Sunday of Easter — May 21, 2023
It can be tempting as disciples to stand looking up at the sky, towards the place of holy mystery — but we're told to get a move on and be present in the world.
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Breaking down barriers (May 21, 2023)
A lesson for May 14, 2023, about Acts 8 and expanding the boundaries of community.
Jesus prays for us — Weekly Christian ed lesson
In this lesson, children will explore Jesus’ prayer of intercession for his disciples in John 17:1-11.
Order of worship — May 21, 2023
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
Taylor professor Julie Moore cited Jemar Tisby on her syllabus. Then she lost her job.
A well-respected professor and published poet, Moore said her provost named Tisby in explaining why her contract was not renewed.
Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World Beyond the Church
"Duncan writes for those who want to know they do not face their finite disappointment in the church alone, yet hold infinite hope for the world beyond the church."
Innovators in ministry you should know
The folks who are finding ways to do church differently — and in ways that might have a faithful impact.
Prayer for students taking exams
As we enter final exam season, Nadine Ellsworth-Moran offers a prayer for the test takers and paper writers.
Do you feel freedom?
How do we reckon with the systems that formed us? How do we move forward? Eric D. Barreto and Willie James Jennings discuss.
PC(USA) 2022 statistical report shows membership declining, new worshiping communities growing
The PC(USA) lost another 50,000 members in 2022 but new worshiping communities grew by 20.
In NC, a church network turns unused church buildings into homes for refugees
A glut of underutilized church properties offers a solution to the severe shortage of affordable housing for newly arrived refugees.
Who was Robert and why do his rules rule?
Attorney and professional parliamentarian Jim Slaughter shares a brief history of Robert's Rules of Order.
Art and innovation: beginning, again
Art, says Juli Kalbaugh, can help us see how our lives are more than just the sum of our parts.
Christianity’s shifting structure
In the Pacific Northwest, Dustin Benac writes, is an American Christianity that’s decoupled from Christendom.
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.
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