Theological Education Matters

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12          Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. Since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last year, I’ve kept in touch with colleagues...

Lent is traditionally a time for Christians to reflect, (re)affirm our baptismal identity, who we are and who we are called to be, and to commit to living faith in more life-giving ways. Our liturgical year takes us on a...

It is the great joy of my work to visit congregations, and those who love the church, keeping in conversation about how we can ensure we have enough ministers for the future needs of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). These conversations...

A big congratulations to Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, professor of theology and ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and Rev. Dr. Douglas Oldenburg, former President of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia and a former General Assembly moderator. ...

Each General Assembly, the Excellence in Theological Education Awards honor outstanding Presbyterian leaders who have had an impact on theological education. In some cases, a single person is chosen, and in other years, two people are selected. This year’s honorees...

Elias Boudinot (1740-1821) was a ruling elder and church leader, a lawyer, a civil servant, a founder and later President of the American Bible Society, a trustee of Princeton University, and a founding trustee of what is now the Presbyterian...

At Stewardship Kaleidoscope in September 2017, I took some time to sit down and film a conversation with Steve Shive. If you don’t know Steve, you should! He’s the General Presbyter of the Presbytery of Wyoming, with a vast territory...

More often than we like to admit, there is a brilliance about the Revised Common Lectionary readings for the day or for the year developed by the Consultation on Common Texts. This year the focus on the Gospel of Mark is...

Like Lent, Advent is a season of preparation in the liturgical year. I wonder, what are we preparing for and how? Mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., co-pastor of an intentionally multicultural church in the 1950’s, and dean of the...

Two Sundays in September I was grateful to preach in two different but both vibrant Presbyterian congregations, both times on what are sometimes called grumbling or murmuring passages in Exodus chapters 16 and 17. These times of study and contemplation...