Insights columns Palm Sunday as a call to non-violence I believe the lesson of Palm Sunday is about our tendency to confuse God’s call for humility with a call to grasp for power, writes Aaron Neff.
Insights columns Retelling stories I read voraciously when I visited the Alamo a few months ago. History has never been my interest, despite marrying a historian...
Insights columns Global and local mission in the PC(USA) “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This Martin Luther King Jr. quote reminds us that the church must match their..
Insights columns Patience as an active waiting As my colleague explained the mechanics of muting and unmuting on Zoom for what seemed like the millionth time to the members..
Insights columns A call to gratitude When I see the scions of wealth parade grandly through my town with, what I interpret as, smug entitlement on their faces,..
Insights columns A new take on Outlook’s social media Oct. 4, 2021, is this generation’s “date which will live in infamy.” Okay, that may be a little drastic, but it definitely..
Insights columns An invitation to “simply be” Before the pandemic, I was on autopilot all day, every day, preoccupied with everything and nothing at all. I was living in..
Insights columns Using disruption for good Recently, the world opened up enough for me to accompany my son, a high school senior, on several college tours. Even though..
Insights columns Bearing the pain of others In the spring of 2016, I was laying on my back in a hospital bed at Duke University Medical Center. Sickness and..
Insights columns Weeping with those who weep I remember being shocked by the fact that Mrs. B., my third grade teacher, was crying. It must have been April 30,..