News & Analysis
30-month agreement nets $150,000 annually for PC(USA) mission Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS - Wednesday, 23 July 2008 Read more... |
BEND, ORE. — Mark Yaconelli has a hard-won reputation helping youth pastors and leaders to find new ways to disciple young people. But late last... Mike Ferguson, Special to Presbyterian News Service - Tuesday, 22 July 2008 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE — The World Council of Churches (WCC) is seeking five young people ages 18-30 to serve as interns in the ecumenical organization’s Geneva, Switzerland,... Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
Hope but also work for justice and peace participants were admonished in the final evening’s session of the Peacemaking Conference held July 15-19 in Orange,... Erin Dunigan, OUTLOOK correspondent - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
SAN JOSE — Gradye Parsons was elected Stated Clerk on the first ballot at the 218th General Assembly meeting June 27. Jack Haberer - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
SAN JOSE — In a vote reflecting how divided the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to be, the 218th General Assembly recommended June 27 by a... L. Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
SAN JOSE — Just hours after voting to recommend that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) change its rules to make it easier for gays and lesbians... L. Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
June 28, 2008To Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregationsGrace and peace to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
SAN JOSE – The 218th General Assembly sent a proposed revision of the denomination’s Form of Government back for more work – with a report... L. Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter & Kate Pate, Outlook GA correspondent - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
(PNS) Mark McCalla, pastor at Highlawn Church in Huntington, W.V., died of a gunshot wound June 19 in a homicide. John A. Bolt - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
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Opinion
June was a month of excitement for me. I was excited about the new call I received, I was excited about returning to California, for I had been in Iowa for the last seventeen years, and I was excited because the timing of my move coincided with the General Assembly in San Jose. Rev. Dr. Randall C. McGrady-Beach - Wednesday, 23 July 2008 Read more... |
Call me crazy, but it’s time for us Presbyterians to act like Congress. Yes, I know that the voter approval rating of the U.S. Congress — 19% in mid-June, even worse than the president’s — is the lowest in recorded history. But Congress does have three attributes we do well to emulate. Jack Haberer, Editor - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
Retired Chaplain Bucher, Jr., asks: “Have we a serious theologian in the PC(USA) (who) argues for having a U.S. flag in the sanctuary?” James R. Black, interim pastor - Friday, 18 July 2008 Read more... |
In his editorial comment, Jack Haberer states "Change is in the air, or to be more exact, a yearning for change fills our church's air like the scent of coffee fills the neighborhood Starbucks". - Tuesday, 15 July 2008 Read more... |
“It was his youthfulness.”“He’s the new Rick Ufford-Chase.” Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Monday, 14 July 2008 Read more... |
The initial reactions to the Authoritative Interpretation of G-6.0108 approved by the General Assembly in San Jose were dramatic. Some were rejoicing, others despairing, because they believed that the General Assembly, in approving the overture submitted by the John Knox Presbytery, had removed the impediment to the ordination of non-celibate gays and lesbians that had been declared by the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission in the case Bush v. Presbytery of Pittsburgh. Edward Koster - Tuesday, 8 July 2008 Read more... |
The June 28th, post-G.A. letter from PC(USA) leaders to members and churches is offensive on so many levels. First, the letter is dangerously misleading in that it does not tell the “whole truth”. Kirk Johnston - Tuesday, 8 July 2008 Read more... |
Welcome to the ’tweener edition of The Presbyterian Outlook. We go to print too early to be able to report any news of the General Assembly (one exception: see p. 6). You receive the magazine about the time the Assembly is adjourning, so any pre-Assembly analysis we might offer is moot. Hence, we find ourselves caught in the middle — in between the times. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Monday, 7 July 2008 Read more... |
Pastor John Buchanan’s remarks this week to the Covenant Network at the 218 General Assembly compel an answer. In regard to the Covenant Network’s goal of gaining ordination of homosexuals by removing current ordination standards, Buchanan is quoted as saying: “We’re going to get there because our children are already there. Kirk Johnston - Saturday, 28 June 2008 Read more... |
The recent "baseball" comments call for another. I read recently about a famous sermon by a Los Angeles preacher, E. V. Hill, pastor of a large African-American Baptist church there. He compares becoming a Christian and being a Christian to the bases one must run in a ball game: John H. Roark, pastor - Thursday, 26 June 2008 Read more... |
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Reports & Resources
Church musicians walk a delicate line. Many are classically trained. Their tastes might be broad, but at some level, many believe that “serious music” is... Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Monday, 21 July 2008 Read more... |
Why does a Presbyterian congregation in Roanoke, Va., care about the quality of pastoral ministry in Prestonsburg, Ky.? Or in Kane, Pa.? Or in Pasadena,... Outlook Staff - Monday, 14 July 2008 Read more... |
On April 5, the Presbytery of the James hosted a conference on evangelism. I found it a thought-provoking experience. Gordon Lindsey - Monday, 14 July 2008 Read more... |
I am aware of yet another situation in which the Presbytery of “Wherever You Are” ought to be thoroughly ashamed of itself. The presbytery is... Linde Grace White - Monday, 14 July 2008 Read more... |
SAN JOSE, July 22 – The woman stood in the bright afternoon sun, her head bowed, tears streaking her face. A Presbyterian minister – who... Leslie Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Monday, 14 July 2008 Read more... |
To keep up on calendar management — a true art form in New York City — I recently switched my calendar to the “cloud,” a/k/a... Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Monday, 14 July 2008 Read more... |
For a limited time the Outlook is offering a special rate to PresbyterianWomen for the 10 issues of the Outlook that include the Horizons Bible... - Sunday, 13 July 2008 Read more... |
Transformative or tourism? This is high season for short-term mission trips, with congregations all over the United States sending groups to paint and hammer, teach... L. Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Monday, 7 July 2008 Read more... |
About 15 years ago, Los Ranchos Presbytery in southern California and Limuru Presbytery in Kenya began a partnership journey together “with good intentions,” says Steven... L. Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Monday, 7 July 2008 Read more... |
Editor’s Note: This sermon was preached recently at First Church in Dubuque, Iowa. The Scripture references include Psalm 146:1-7, Romans 13:1-7, and John 18:33-38a. Mark Achtemeier - Monday, 7 July 2008 Read more... |
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