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Lenten Lectionary-Inspired Hymns
These eight new hymn texts—two for Ash Wednesday, and one for each of the Sundays in Lent, including Passion / Palm Sunday—closely follow the texts and themes of the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C. The hymns are set to familiar tunes in the 1990 Presbyterian Hymnal. Liturgical notes accompanying each hymn offer suggestions about how they might be used in worship.
David Gambrell is associate for worship in the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is an ex officio member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song, and serves as a representative to the Consultation on Common Texts, the group responsible for the Revised Common Lectionary.
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News & Analysis
WARSAW (ENI)Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe. Jonathan Luxmoore - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008) and Gradye Parsons, stated clerk, have added their signatures to a Christian statement denouncing... Bethany Furkin - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
NASHVILLE (PNS) Following up on its well-attended 2009 event, the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Presbyterian Writers Conference for 2010 will be held from Wednesday through Thursday,... Emily Enders Odom - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Postal Service plans to honor Mother Teresa with a stamp this year in recognition of her humanitarian work. Adelle M. Banks - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
CANTERBURY, ENGLAND (RNS) The final draft of a document aimed at mediating disputes between liberals and conservatives in the global Anglican Communion has been sent... Daniel Burke - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
BANGALORE, INDIA (ENI) Church groups have hailed the report of a federal commission recommending an end to decades of religion-based discrimination that excluded Christian and... Anto Akkara - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
A man named Jack Hanna retired from General Electric, bought a boat, and went to the Caribbean. - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
The tiny green patch we had been hiking toward finally began to look less like a miniature diorama and more like a life-sized forest. Michelle Wahila - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
For some pastors, all this is brand-new territory- and not a place they necessarily feel comfortable. Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy feverishly worked last weekend on a half-dozen reports it is preparing for the... Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service - Thursday, 4 February 2010 Read more... |
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Reports & Resources
It has taken little more than one generation for American Protestantism to lose control of Sunday morning. Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Monday, 8 February 2010 Read more... |
Christmas has come and gone. Nativity scenes rest safely in the attic. But has anything remained? For we know at Christmas, The Word became flesh... Matthew A. Rich - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
The most recent half of my faith-walk has been as a Presbyterian, while the previous quarter saw me as a lapsed Catholic (mostly of the... Tad Shura - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
During the coffee hour between services at Saint Mark Church I often find myself, like many others, wanting to have less structure and be free... Alice G. Miller - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
Presbyterians are known for emphasizing life-long learning. Though Vacation Bible School can be an opportunity to provide adult learning, most churches do not take advantage... Jann Treadwell - Sunday, 24 January 2010 Read more... |
“Oh look,” the mom announces as she picks up the flyer off the kitchen counter. Krista Lovell - Sunday, 24 January 2010 Read more... |
Sometimes Vacation Bible School can look and feel like barely controlled chaos. But the Spirit of God is hovering over those swirling children and dazzled... Linda LeBron - Sunday, 24 January 2010 Read more... |
Like many church leaders, I have been grappling with the steady decline of mainline Protestant churches over the past 45 years and trying to determine... Tom Ehrich - Sunday, 10 January 2010 Read more... |
What events and trends of the past ten years stand out above the rest? The Outlook surveyed online readers for their input, resulting in this... Jack Haberer, Outlook editor - Monday, 28 December 2009 Read more... |
PUP was a DUD. Just don’t tell anybody. And, don’t tell any fellow Presbyterians that many other highly anticipated – and dreaded – events in... Jack Haberer, Outlook editor - Monday, 28 December 2009 Read more... |
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Opinion
This edition of the Outlook was heading to the printer when news broke of a devastating 7.0 earthquake hitting Haiti, already the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 7 February 2010 Read more... |
How can there be, as you report: "civility and mutual respect, but, lacking unanimity," when there is no unity? Truth be told, our church is sadly divided. The dividing walls still separate us from our Lord. I weep for our Church. I wonder for the witness viewed by those attending worship.Richard MobayedHuntington, W. Va. Richard Mobayed - Tuesday, 2 February 2010 Read more... |
The new format is really positively upbeat. The vivaciousness is only surpassed by the content. The articles were challenging even though I may have some differing perspectives than the authors’ but the presentation was challenging. The Sunday Soteriology piece … should be placed in every pastor’s and session member’s mailboxes or e-mail accounts. It was an additional reminder that the Eucharist is a “channel of grace” and the ever-present Christ comes to us “from the future with the power of the future” with the“anticipation of the final messianic banquet.” The OUTLOOK is doing an excellent job keeping us abreast of... W. Gene Campbell - Tuesday, 2 February 2010 Read more... |
Many thanks for Bill Tammeus’ column, “Sunday soteriology” (January 25). I agree with him completely about weekly Communion because of my recent service as Interim Pastor of Firelands Presbyterian Church in Port Clinton, Ohio. K. Dean Myers - Sunday, 31 January 2010 Read more... |
As a long-time subscriber to The Presbyterian Outlook, I commend you for your editorial on "So what about the Muslims?" Jim White - Tuesday, 26 January 2010 Read more... |
Switzerland votes to disallow the construction of minarets (see p. 16). Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 24 January 2010 Read more... |
Some weeks ago, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, preached at a Kansas City area church. So I went to the early service and, at the Communion rail, received the body and blood of Christ. Bill Tammeus - Sunday, 24 January 2010 Read more... |
By doing much of its work off-site and online, the Multichannel Church challenges a longheld assumption, namely, the necessity of being together on Sunday. Tom Ehrich - Sunday, 24 January 2010 Read more... |
Tom, your thoughts make great sense BUT I'm thinking of a church that has incorporated 99% of your suggestions yet it is not growing or changing significantly, which I feel validates the thought that "outsight " alone cannot reverse established trends simply because the internal, and perhaps even prevailing external, forces are too rigid and inflexible to cope with.Jim BabcockBozeman, Mont. Jim Babcock - Wednesday, 13 January 2010 Read more... |
The time has come to turn the page from a black-and-blue magazine serving a black-and-blue church to become a high-def, full color, twenty-teens magazine informing and empowering a high-def, full color, twenty-teens church. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 10 January 2010 Read more... |
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