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News & Analysis
What does the controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque" say about our American values and heritage? Blogger David True asks, What could be more American?... - Wednesday, 8 September 2010 Read more... |
Texas pastor Winfield Casey Jones posted his convictions about burning the Quran on both his church's sign, and on the Outlook blog page. Click here... - Wednesday, 8 September 2010 Read more... |
The new "Presbyterian Bible Junkie" blog post by Tom Hobson was posted today — "Jesus and Muhammad." Check it out on the Outlook blog... - Tuesday, 7 September 2010 Read more... |
JERUSALEM — (ENI) Health concerns relating to water quality have triggered an environmental advocacy group to call for the banning of baptisms in the lower... - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
The 30th General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), meeting in Englewood, Colo., has voted to ease restrictions on the ordination of women as... - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
NASHVILLE — Facing competing overtures, the 38th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, meeting here June 29-July 2, continued its prohibition of the... - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
NAIROBI — (ENI) Sudan’s Roman Catholic bishops say it is “tragic” their country's political establishment has made national unity unattractive to the people of southern... - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
STUTTGART— (ENI) The recently retired senior Vatican official responsible for ecumenical affairs has said his biggest regret during his tenure in Rome is that he... - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
EDINBURGH — (ENI) An actor portraying John Knox, 16th century father of Scottish Presbyterianism, is to lead a parade through Edinburgh, when Pope Benedict XVI... - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
STUTTGART — (ENI) The Lutheran World Federation has chosen Palestinian Bishop Munib A. Younan, a campaigner for peace, justice and inter-faith dialogue, as its next... - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
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Reports & Resources
This question began as a Facebook exchange. Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
Jim Collins has written a new book called How the Mighty Fall (c. 2009 by Jim Collins; distributed by HarperCollins). Collins looks at businesses and... Harry J. Heintz - Monday, 23 August 2010 Read more... |
It is a hard to imagine that it’s only happened 20 times in the 135-year history of major league baseball. A perfect game. No hits,... Matthew A. Rich - Monday, 23 August 2010 Read more... |
Recently I attended the sixth grade Renaissance Fair at Springfield Middle School. It was quite the event with hundreds of eleven- and twelve-year-olds dressed in... Jill Duffield - Monday, 23 August 2010 Read more... |
Members and officers, my word to you is this: be entrepreneurs. Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Monday, 23 August 2010 Read more... |
Two years ago when my wife Barbara faced open-heart surgery, the members of our congregation, the session, and deacons jumped into action to help us... Earl S. Johnson Jr. - Sunday, 22 August 2010 Read more... |
The healthy and growing church will offer multiple and, yes, conflicting faith experiences. Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness - Monday, 9 August 2010 Read more... |
IT WILL GO DOWN IN MY MEMORY as one of the top ten all-time meaningful events in my ministry. HEIDI HUSTED ARMSTRONG - Monday, 9 August 2010 Read more... |
When Tom Hay went to Scotland in May as a representative of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) attending the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,... Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter - Monday, 26 July 2010 Read more... |
I had a conversation the other day with a good friend. He and I usually disagree on most things. Our argument began with the old... Phil Leftwich - Monday, 26 July 2010 Read more... |
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Opinion
\I'm saddened every time I see another article in the Outlook on the gender issue. I wonder if Jesus would be similarly appalled if he witnessed his followers torn asunder. What would he say?As a "moderate," I try to find ways to compromise and to reconcile opposing factions. I've concluded the real hang-up is the word marriage. If we all could agree to reserve "marriage" for man-woman relationships, would it take some of the emotion out of the equation? If we talked about same-sex "alliances" or "unions," instead of "marriages," wouldn't the vast majority of us recognize and give some... Reuben Bareis - Wednesday, 8 September 2010 Read more... |
Mr. Flaniken, thank you for telling us the truth. Yes, as sad as it is for me to say this, the PC(USA) is in a tsunami of moral decay and headed toward apostasy. It is ironic that most people in the pews know very well what the Bible says about human sexuality. It is the clergy, for the most part, who are the ones who are voting for these radical measures to be passed. One colleague told me that the people in the pews don’t care. I find that very difficult to believe. The fact is that many clergy do... Patricia Slomanski - Tuesday, 7 September 2010 Read more... |
So Anne Rice — vampire novelist turned recommitted, Jesus-loving Christian — has quit the church, and the blogosphere has gone viral. What’s the big deal? Everybody’s doing it. - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
Thanks, Jack, for sharing your experience on the West Bank. More Presbyterians need to make trips to the places you went in order to better understand the situation. It does not happen on those Jewish tour guide trips. I know because that was also my first experience. I learned much about holy sites and nothing about the Palestinian plight, much about old dead stones and nothing about living, breathing children of God. That didn't come until my second trip to Israel and Palestine with the PC(USA).To answer your question … will we endorse the Palestinian (right of return), while knowing... Jeffrey DeYoe Sr. - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
As I read the article by Bill Tammeus in his “ideas for turning this ship around” sound like a Presbyterian vaccination against the irrelevancy virus that is afflicting most mainline denominations. Trouble is the writer wants to inoculate the church against Christian faith that demands repentance, humility, obedience, and reliance on the power of God to transform. In place of the historic Christian faith he wants to put his thinly disguised political agenda, or what the writer euphemistically calls “faith's eternal values.” The first of those values is, of course: “The fight over gays and lesbians is over.” Outlook readers... Karl E. McDonald - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
I was an elder commissioner from the Arkansas Presbytery and tried in vain to have the plenary listen to me concerning this motion, it's discriminatory wording and blatant untruth. When Cynthia Bolbach asked the assembly how many had actually read the Arizona law, fewer than a handful raised their hands. I had!! One young commissioner confessed to this gathering a few moments later that after she had voted for the "censure" of the Arizona law in her committee, she read the actual law itself and wished she could have changed her vote.What is interesting is that the state of Rhode... various - Sunday, 5 September 2010 Read more... |
As I see it, the 219th General Assembly failed its math test by subtracting instead of adding. I refer to its action regarding G-6.0106b, where it subtracted instead of adding. The given reason was that all of life instead of just human sexuality should be under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And then it substituted a general statement that will be open to myriad interpretations. Fidelity in marriage and chastity in singleness are clear witnesses to a Christian view of behavior in human sexuality. Can anyone rightly deny that America is in the throes of a monsoon of sexual immorality?... Ernest H. Flaniken - Thursday, 2 September 2010 Read more... |
In view of the spurious accusations being circulated through the media, I wish to publicly affirm President (Barack) Obama as a baptized child of God and my brother in Christ. Given this truth, regardless of President Obama's policies and statements as the President of the United States, may our living faith be an ever-present challenge and consolation for him today, tomorrow, and throughout his life. Shalom. Karen BlattBeaverton, Mich. Karen Blatt - Wednesday, 25 August 2010 Read more... |
They need no exodus who dwell in the Promised Land. Jack Haberer, Outlook editor - Monday, 23 August 2010 Read more... |
Bill Tammeus’ article in the July 26th issue strikes me as the most “Christian” and makes the most sense of anything I’ve read or heard from within the Presbyterian Church in recent memory. Thanks to Mr. Tammeus for writing it and to the Outlook for publishing it.Bob BallAustin, Texas Bob Ball - Monday, 23 August 2010 Read more... |
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