News & Analysis
Did you know that The Presbyterian Outlook magazine includes weekly Bible study helps for those who teach the Uniform Bible Study lessons? …and that it... - Monday, 6 October 2008 Read more... |
This fall, before the election, presbyteries will be encouraged to set up task forces on immigration — so Presbyterians can be ready to respond the... Leslie Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Sunday, 5 October 2008 Read more... |
Editor’s Note: This report on hurricane damage in Texas reflects information “on the ground” in the days right after the disaster. Leslie Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Sunday, 5 October 2008 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE — Janet Edwards, a Presbyterian minister in Pittsburgh, was found not guilty Thursday (Oct. 2) following a trial on charges that she violated Scripture... Evan Silverstein, PNS - Friday, 3 October 2008 Read more... |
SNOWBIRD, UTAH – In response to the crisis in the nation’s financial markets, Presbyterian leaders are preparing to send out a pastoral letter by e-mail... Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter - Friday, 3 October 2008 Read more... |
SNOWBIRD, UTAH — The $40 million Mission Initiative: Joining Hearts & Hands campaign has proved a learning experience for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — exciting... Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter - Friday, 3 October 2008 Read more... |
Bangalore, India — (ENI) Christian and Hindu leaders who took part in their first dialogue meeting in India's southern state of Kerala are hopeful that... Anto Akkara - Thursday, 2 October 2008 Read more... |
SNOWBIRD, UTAH — Laura Mendenhall, president of Columbia Theological Seminary, told the General Assembly Council’s Vocation Committee Oct. 1 that the quality and commitment of... Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter - Thursday, 2 October 2008 Read more... |
SNOWBIRD, UTAH – The news is full of the nation’s economic crisis – and for many congregations and Presbyterian families, there is a lot to... Leslie Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter - Thursday, 2 October 2008 Read more... |
SNOWBIRD, UTAH – The General Assembly Council has voted to create a new five-member task force to evaluate the role of the Presbyterian News Service... Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter - Wednesday, 1 October 2008 Read more... |
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Opinion
“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... |
Did you notice, in the Sept. 1 edition of the Outlook, the curious juxtaposition of our extolling the Presbyterian way of life, while half the news section focused on the Anglican way of life? No, I wouldn’t trade our elders and deacons for their bishops. But those bishops were making news. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 21 September 2008 Read more... |
As a Commissioner to the General Assembly in San Jose I believe there is another issue that needs to be addressed. It is the issue of understanding the context of many of the issues coming before the General Assembly. While I thought I was informed, I realized quickly that some issues have been around for quite a while. While it is easy to change the General Assembly Council’s name by adding Mission, it is not easy to understand the evolution of this body. I felt fortunate to be assigned to a committee where Linda Valentine and others from the Council... Thomas D. Woodward, H.R. - Wednesday, 17 September 2008 Read more... |
Seminaries: the schools you hate to love.Most pastors deeply appreciate their respective theological alma maters (see report on p. 10). They thank God for the superior scholarship, for their favorite faculty-mentors’ attentiveness, and for the community spirit they experienced. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 14 September 2008 Read more... |
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Reports & Resources
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... |
It began with fantasizing that I would make a darn good layperson. I could still be very active in ministry, without having all the responsibilities,... Douglas J. Rumford - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
As I am make the transition from middle governing body work to service as a pastor in a local congregation, I reflect on my pilgrimage... Chuck Traylor - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
Do you have challenges with your church members? Are you frustrated trying to influence those over whom you have little control? Do you have conflicts... Maurice Graham - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
Editor’s Note: This article is the second part of a two-part series. The first part appeared in the Outlook issue 190-31 (cover date September 22,... Neal Lloyd - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
Healthy, living things grow. Growing things change. That should include human minds. Just try telling that, however, to the men and women who are running... Glenn McDonald - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
Church planning processes and planners tend to spend too much devising plans and too little time listening for needs. Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
APPRECIATION TO MANYChurch Financial Campaign Service honors the ministry of the pastors and congregations with which we have had the privilege of working. Thank you.... - Sunday, 28 September 2008 Read more... |
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