News & Analysis
Phyllis Zoon has never fasted before, but she’s trying it. Leslie Scanlon - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
Utrecht, Netherlands — (ENI) Plans to form a new global grouping representing 80 million Reformed Christians worldwide in 2010 have taken a step forward, following... Andreas Havinga - Friday, 10 October 2008 Read more... |
William J. Carl III, president of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pa., is the featured preacher Nov. 9 and 16 on "Day 1," a nationally... - Friday, 10 October 2008 Read more... |
The Presbyterian Outlook readers are among many who have asked about the status of their retirement funds being managed by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Board... - Thursday, 9 October 2008 Read more... |
NAIROBI — (ENI) André Karamaga, a Presbyterian theologian from Rwanda, has been elected general secretary of the Nairobi-based All Africa Conference of Churches, the grouping... Fredrick Nzwili - Thursday, 9 October 2008 Read more... |
CAPE TOWN — (ENI) A South African Presbyterian church leader has said poverty in the country is now worse than apartheid, and a "terrible disease"... Fredrick Nzwili - Thursday, 9 October 2008 Read more... |
DAMASCUS — Twenty-two Americans representing a variety of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations gathered recently in Syria for an emotional, and at times tearful, encounter with... Peggy Thomson, Special to Presbyterian News Service - Thursday, 9 October 2008 Read more... |
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Mandy Helton Jones had planned to spend the next couple of months traveling to Asia and Australia with her new husband,... Charles Honey, Religion News Service - Thursday, 9 October 2008 Read more... |
DECATUR, GEORGIA — Laura Mendenhall announced today that she will conclude her tenure as president of Columbia Theological Seminary at the end of the 2008-2009... - Wednesday, 8 October 2008 Read more... |
(ENI)--South African church cleric Alan Boesak is on the verge of giving up his church positions and returning to a leadership role in politics. Peter Fabricius - Wednesday, 8 October 2008 Read more... |
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Opinion
As Michael Lindvall reminds us in this week’s Benedictory column, history should be a “distant mirror” that helps us see ourselves and our times more accurately. This week’s issue of the Outlook turns our eyes to what may be the clearest mirror into which we Presbyterians are inclined to gaze: the life and writings of John Calvin. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
Your recent editorial … mentioned a radical departure taken by the most recent General Assembly in its vote that ordination candidates no longer will need to be able to read Biblical Hebrew or Greek. According to the newly approved approach, "The demonstration of a working knowledge or Hebrew and/or Greek will no longer be required in order to complete the examination successfully" and a "faithful interpretation" rather than "the principal meaning" will now be sufficient.Now that the Biblical exegesis ordination examination will no longer require knowledge of the original languages, many seminary students who go on to serve congregations may... Nelle McCorkle Bordeaux - Thursday, 9 October 2008 Read more... |
Dear Editor, I wasn't sure what to make of last issue's cover (9/29/2008). Is the pastor on the left or the right? The elderly Caucasian man on the left could fit two stereotypical images, that of a pastor or that of an average PC(USA) member. On the right we have what appears to be a non-Caucasian mother (apparently her daughter is by her side). It's hard to tell who is giving thanks and who is receiving thanks. Either way, the image either seems to be playing into sterotypes or trying to flip them around. I hope it's the latter, as a... Evans Presley-McGowan - Tuesday, 7 October 2008 Read more... |
“I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate” (Romans 7:15). If ever there were a living example of the Romans 7 dilemma, it is parading before us daily on the campaign trail. Two great men, both aspiring to be the 44th president of the United States, are behaving in ways that flat-out contradict so much of what they have promoted throughout their careers. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 5 October 2008 Read more... |
(RNS) NEW YORK — Here in America’s financial capital, Sunday (Sept. 14) was normal in most respects. Streets were filled with shoppers, parks with strollers and picnickers, and homes with people watching the Jets lose and the Giants win. But our always-on communications brought a steady stream of sobering news from emergency talks on Wall Street. Tom Ehrich - Sunday, 5 October 2008 Read more... |
I appreciate Scott Sunquist’s challenge to theological education. Everything he writes rings true to this middle-aged parson educated in the early 1980s.Is there a seminary or a program to help retool old guys like me? I was educated in a Christendom model: spend 20 hours researching and preparing a good sermon, get a catchy topic for the sign out front, and everything else will take care of itself. Even then I suspected there was more involved, but until at least the early 1990s I could still count on people showing up for Sunday School or special church events or a... Robert A. Keefer, pastor - Thursday, 2 October 2008 Read more... |
October: Pastor Appreciation Month. Just the kind of thing Hallmark would invent to sell more cards. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
I have a very simple question. Why would a candidate for the ministry who wants to serve as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) not attend one of our own denominational seminaries? It only seems reasonable to me that if one goes to a nondenominational seminary he/she must want to serve in a nondenominational church. I think we absorb the spirit of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) by receiving our theological education in our own seminaries. Otherwise, why should we have these seminaries? I remember years ago in a Florida presbytery meeting a young man coming before us seeking ordination... D.C. Bartges - Friday, 26 September 2008 Read more... |
My friends in the Presbytery of Detroit know that I seldom agree with anything wholeheartedly, but “Save a tree. Kill an assembly.” sounds so real and true I thoroughly agree. I believe that people are less likely to read, comment upon, and study pages that appear on the internet and that it’s affecting the quality of participation at General Assembly deeply disturbs me.The work is simply too important to entrust to people who have failed to do their required homework. By the way, I have been a GA commissioner twice so I know and tried to live up to the... Gretchen Denton, interim pastor - Thursday, 25 September 2008 Read more... |
The recent vote of the 218th General Assembly has the effect of calling for a vote of Presbyterians on amending our church constitution to allow ordination of practicing homosexuals, whether they be deacons, elders, or pastors. Bill Klemm - Monday, 22 September 2008 Read more... |
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Reports & Resources
A Presbyterian church leader looked at possible avenues for seeking health in his large Southern congregation and asked, “Where do we start?” Tom Ehrich - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
Concerns have been raised in public arenas in the life of the church about recent changes to the Open Book Bible Exegesis examination. The expression... Lesley Davies and Timothy B. Cargal - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
John Calvin’s understanding of piety shaped his followers in very distinctive ways. Active participation in society, intelligent moral character, careful stewardship of human and natural... Elsie McKee - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
It runs against the grain today to suggest that anything past could be of interest, let alone of importance. Nevertheless, A.D. 2009 will be the... James C. Goodloe IV - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
When I was in the second grade I led a solitary sort of existence. As a result, I was soon reading at the seventh grade... Richard A. Ray - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
The following article is excerpted from the author’s book, Calvin for Armchair Theologians (Westminster-John Knox, 2002). Christopher Elwood - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is sending ten proposed amendments and four ecumenical statements to the presbyteries for their affirmative or... Bill Lancaster - Sunday, 12 October 2008 Read more... |
It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He... Jose Luis Casal - Sunday, 5 October 2008 Read more... |
“We’re narrowing our list of priorities,” a church leader said the other day. Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Sunday, 5 October 2008 Read more... |
Why would someone want a job that requires working 24/7, offers low compensation when juxtaposed with attorneys (with whom they share a basic skill set),... Fairfax Fullerton Fair - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
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