“We are now going to have two Communions of Anglicans going forward, the Global South Anglicans who are keeping to the teachings of the scripture and the Global North Anglicans who are preaching and practicing a watered-down gospel,” said the Rev. Tom Otieno, the vicar of Saint Barnabas Anglican Church of Kenya in Nairobi.
The PC(USA)’s financial support system for pastors was built in the 1980s and doesn’t meet the church’s current needs and challenges, writes Board of Pension’s president Frank Spencer. We can change this if we adapt our understanding of church.
Episcopalian Jay Blossom wrestles with the holy symbols and contradictions displayed at the coronation of King Charles this past Saturday.
‘When abuse is framed as just black and white, it can be harder for people going through it to reckon with it and realize it,’ said writer/director Laurel Parmet.
"I believe we are all aspiring memoirists; we long to see our lives whole, discern their meaning, and share it with our children, grandchildren and others."
"I'm making you go through this because I went through it." What if we left this way of thinking behind to follow Jesus, Eric Barreto and Willie James Jennings ask?
Clashing messages about God and guns came a day after an assailant opened fire at a Dallas-area outlet mall, killing eight people — including children — and wounding seven others.
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.
A lesson for May 14, 2023, about Acts 8 and expanding the boundaries of community.
In this lesson, children will explore Jesus’ prayer of intercession for his disciples in John 17:1-11.
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
A well-respected professor and published poet, Moore said her provost named Tisby in explaining why her contract was not renewed.
"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."
The folks who are finding ways to do church differently — and in ways that might have a faithful impact.
As we enter final exam season, Nadine Ellsworth-Moran offers a prayer for the test takers and paper writers.
How do we reckon with the systems that formed us? How do we move forward? Eric D. Barreto and Willie James Jennings discuss.
The PC(USA) lost another 50,000 members in 2022 but new worshiping communities grew by 20.
A glut of underutilized church properties offers a solution to the severe shortage of affordable housing for newly arrived refugees.
Attorney and professional parliamentarian Jim Slaughter shares a brief history of Robert's Rules of Order.
Art, says Juli Kalbaugh, can help us see how our lives are more than just the sum of our parts.
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.
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