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Written by Wes Barry
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011 18:55 |
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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) may want to take note of a phenomenon occurring online.
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Written by Donald Wehmeyer
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011 18:54 |
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Human identity does not reside so much in what we do but in what we are.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:02 |
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Editor's note: Bruce Gillette, co-pastor of Limestone Church in Wilmington, Del., wrote the following reflection upon hearing about the recent death of Frances Paschal Landers and on the Christian imperative to see and serve the world's most needful.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 18:23 |
interview by Jack Haberer, OUTLOOK editor
Linda Valentine has been re-elected by the General Assembly Mission Council (subject to confirmation by the 219th General Assembly) to serve a second four-year term as executive director – the chief of staff to most of the denomination’s national and international staff. Editor Jack Haberer sat down with Linda Valentine to talk about her first term and to look ahead.
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Written by Derek L. Pursey
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 18:17 |
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I remember a story my mother often told me. As a late teenager, she read in 1 John 4:7 that God is love, and concluded that God was nowhere to be found in the church in which she was raised.
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Written by Dean K. Thompson
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 18:14 |
Editor’s note: The Presbyterian Outlook will confer the E.T. Thompson Award for lifetime achievement in service to our Lord, the church and world to Syngman Rhee at its General Assembly luncheon banquet on July 3. Louisville Seminary President Dean Thompson prepared this tribute.
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Written by Thom M. Shuman, (c) 2010 Thom M. Shuman. Used by permission.
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 17:41 |
the silence in the coastal communities
is almost deafening,
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Written by Tom Ehrich
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 17:38 |
Perhaps the most difficult principle for the Multichannel Church to implement is moving some activities and ministries off site, out into neighborhoods and homes.
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Written by Bill Tammeus
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 17:32 |
My friend Molly T. Marshall is accustomed to controversy.
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Written by Op-Ed by Jeanne D. Wandersleben
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 14:49 |
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It may not come as a great a shock to the Outlook to know that this reader seldom files for future reference most copies of this publication.
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Written by Mark D. Hinds
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 14:47 |
In an October 8, 2009, Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, Paul Krugman opines:
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Written by Jeffrey G. DeYoe
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Sunday, 02 May 2010 23:46 |
“We are the Church of Jesus Christ. When the powers of the world decide that they will conduct business as usual, and that business is contrary to the teachings of Christ and the will of God for humanity, then it is time for the church to end its complicity in this sinful behavior. If we do not, then we remain unrepentant.”
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Written by Ron Ferguson
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Sunday, 02 May 2010 23:31 |
The year is 1948. The place, the holy island of Iona. The Rev. Dr. George MacLeod is sitting with a young man, John, who has spent time in a borstal for young offenders. Sensing that the young man is troubled, MacLeod invites him to write down any burden he has on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope, before receiving the laying on of hands.
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Written by Bill Tammeus
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Monday, 19 April 2010 00:00 |
My associate pastor wasn’t surprised, but I was.
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Written by Gradye Parsons, General Assembly stated clerk
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Friday, 16 April 2010 16:27 |
LOUISVILLE — Yes, Virginia, there is a vital Presbyterian Church in Cuba.
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Written by Winfield Casey Jones
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 20:27 |
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According to our Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Form of Government, a General Assembly may issue an authoritative interpretation about the meaning of our Constitution. But an amendment to the Part II of the Constitution (the Book of Order) requires a subsequent affirmative vote by a majority of the presbyteries.
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Written by William (Beau) Weston
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:40 |
The Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage hammered out its final report over the weekend of January 23 -24. I attended those meetings as an observer.
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Written by Edward Koster
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:38 |
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Four times in the last five chapters of the Book of Judges we read that there was no king in Israel, and that all the people did what was right in their own eyes.
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Written by Bill Tammeus
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 17:16 |
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Some weeks ago, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, preached at a Kansas City area church. So I went to the early service and, at the Communion rail, received the body and blood of Christ.
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Written by Tom Ehrich
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 17:07 |
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By doing much of its work off-site and online, the Multichannel Church challenges a longheld assumption, namely, the necessity of being together on Sunday.
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:49 |
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Friends, Presbyterians, people of God – I come to bury Frozen Chosen, not praise him.
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Written by Christopher H. Edmonston
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:47 |
“How good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity.” Psalm 133:1
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Written by Christian Iosso
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:44 |
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How tragic it would be if the denomination-wide revival of enthusiasm around being the missional church were relegated to being all talk, no action!
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Written by Eric Hoey, Philip Lotspeich, and Ray Jones
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:43 |
Can you believe we are now consulting calendars for 2010?
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