News & Analysis
CHICAGO — Over the years, disagreements between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation and the General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC) have sometimes made the gulf between... Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service - Friday, 3 July 2009 Read more... |
PHILADELPHIA — After completing a two-year review of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Medical Plan for church workers, the denominations Board of Pensions (BOP) has approved... Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service - Friday, 3 July 2009 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE — A memorial service for William Ross Forbes, who was vice-president of church relations and corporate secretary for the Board of Pensions of the... Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service - Friday, 3 July 2009 Read more... |
LAGOS — (ENI) Nigeria's foremost Pentecostal Church leader, Enouch Adeboye, has been named the country's greatest living legend based on a public poll by a... Lekan Otufodunrin - Thursday, 2 July 2009 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE - What is the place of covenanted same-gender partnerships in the Christian community? Sharon K. Youngs, Office of the General Assembly communications coordinator - Thursday, 2 July 2009 Read more... |
BANGALORE, INDIA — (ENI) Christians in the troubled Kandhamal jungles of India's eastern Orissa state say strong action must be taken against Hindu extremists backing... Anto Akkara - Thursday, 2 July 2009 Read more... |
TOKYO (ENI) —The presidents of the Roman Catholic bishops' conferences in the Group of Eight main industrial nations have urged their leaders to "protect poor... Hisashi Yukimoto - Thursday, 2 July 2009 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE - More than 600 pastors from across the country, including a score of Presbyterians, have launched a radio advertising campaign in five key states... Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service - Wednesday, 1 July 2009 Read more... |
At the first meeting of the Special Committee to Consider Amending the Confessional Documents of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to Include the Belhar Confession in... Bethany Furkin, Presbyterian News Service - Wednesday, 1 July 2009 Read more... |
LOUISVILLE — William Ross Forbes, who served the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in a variety of capacities for 37 years — including leadership at every PC(USA)... Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service - Tuesday, 30 June 2009 Read more... |
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Reports & Resources
The impact of the narrow defeat of Amendment B, which would have altered the ordination standards of the church, has been discussed at length in... Bill Lancaster - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
One casualty of the General Assembly Mission Council’s recent budget reduction was the Office of Collegiate Ministries. Gary Luhr - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
Some may think of the summers between Presbyterian General Assemblies – the off years – as a quiet, sultry, relaxing time. Best not to say... Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
The dust has settled on another effort to remove G-6.0106b from the Church’s constitution. John Lolla - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
Well, it’s all over but for the sighing. Some walked away thinking they were winners, and some hung their heads feeling like losers. Phil Leftwich - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
For the past six years the Presbytery of Baltimore has been exploring a simple question, “How do we want to live together so that we... Peter Nord - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
Surrounded as we are by oxymoronic phrases, a prize should go to those who coined “gracious separation.” Some discerned that it meant, “You be gracious,... William E. Chapman - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
“Dad, tell your colleagues not to mess up the church too much before my generation has a chance to lead.” So exhorted my 19-year-old daughter(YAD... Samuel E. Roberson - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
Editor’s Note: This is the author’s third essay addressing why the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) needs a major revision of the current/1983 PC(USA) Form of Government.... Merwyn S. Johnson - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
The issue of human trafficking worldwide is of growing concern and Presbyterians are taking action to address it. Erin Dunigan, special Outlook correspondent - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
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Opinion
I have three counter-points to your article: - Tuesday, 30 June 2009 Read more... |
I appreciated very much Thomas Wilson's article … which suggested that it is high time that clergy in the United States cease and desist from having any role in civil marriage contracts. Dick Lindsey - Tuesday, 30 June 2009 Read more... |
Was it my imagination? Or was there something fitting about Derek Maul's refreshing commentary ("It's time we listened to atheists," June 29) being placed on the very last page of the Outlook? For here is a journal, a fine one with a distinguished history, caught increasingly in the centripetal winds of a denomination in numerical decline — a Christian family focused more and more on its own troubles and tiffs. Maul's savvy, theologically astute and outward-looking piece enters this culture as a meteor from Mars, as a shock to the system. This is how prophecy feels, isn't it?Wayne G. BoultonBoston,... Wayne G. Boulton - Monday, 29 June 2009 Read more... |
Midway – adv.: in the middle of the way or distance; halfway. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 28 June 2009 Read more... |
The Calvinistic conception of individual election or choice by God differs from that general or national election by which God chose the whole nation of Israel to be his own people. Gordon Garlington - Tuesday, 23 June 2009 Read more... |
The center spread by David Gushee is an abomination! To assign all opposing views to hell (after all they can't be Christians!) is as divisive as anything ever written in your magazine. And to do it all in the name of a prayer to "Dear Jesus" is way over the line. It has to rank at the top of the worst articles ever to appear in OUTLOOK!David CastrodaleKeokuk, Iowa David Castrodale - Monday, 22 June 2009 Read more... |
Professor David Gushee’s (article) sounded to me like a clarion call for a new confession for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — parallel to the Barmen Declaration of 1934. As a church with peacemaking one of its central mission priorities, Professor Gushee’s Lament speaks the truth to the powerlessness, or is it “spinelessness,” of our members and leaders in a time when our democratic principles are being eroded in the name of national security. As a pastor of a small church near a state capitol, I have tried to raise the morality of torture in various venues of the life of... Elizabeth D. “Betty” Beck, pastor - Monday, 22 June 2009 Read more... |
I find the statement by Dr. Gushee “let them be anathema” an ironic response. To believe we are something other than broken is “to delude ourselves on the way to Judgment Day.” The “status confessionis moment” is not so much a stand on the torture question but rather whether we can as the people of God condemn a sin and not the sinner. Isn’t that what it means to be “really” the people of God? “There are some things that we just can’t do to anyone, no matter who they are?” Baron EliasonLubbock, Texas Baron Eliason - Monday, 22 June 2009 Read more... |
The news sounds frightening. Since the first of the year, Christianity Today Incorporated has shuttered six of its magazines and sold a seventh. Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor - Sunday, 21 June 2009 Read more... |
An OUTSTANDING selection on the part of Columbia! Steve Hayner has left an indelible mark on the lives of hundreds of Christians and I include myself. He will provide leadership that will make Columbia the leader in missional theology among the Presbyterian seminaries and influence the emerging shape of theological education across North America.John ZimmermanBlaine, Wash. John Zimmerman - Wednesday, 17 June 2009 Read more... |
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