Weekly Outlook - Should churches respond to online outrage? 🤬

Dear readers, It’s hard to believe that Lent is upon us and March is just around the corner. Despite last week’s snow, I’ve noticed a crocus in our front yard and the green shoots of daffodils I planted this past fall. The earth is waking up. I see part of my role as Presbyterian Outlook’s digital content editor as that of the publication’s librarian. In many ways, I serve as a record keeper — tracking what we’ve published and paying attention to what resonates most with you. With that in mind, here is some of our favorite Lent-related content from past years that you may find helpful as you enter this season: Called to wash feet: A Maundy Thursday prayer for humility Savannah Demuynck offers a prayer reflecting on Christ’s call to humility and service. The cross isn’t just about our guilt and shame Do you know the cross can be interpreted through multiple lenses? If Jesus’ crucifixion feels unapproachable, you may want to try a new perspective, writes Elana Keppel Levy. Bearers of delight: Lent’s subversive call to joy Lent invites us into a countercultural vocation of joy, writes Jess Rigel. Resurrection is a movement: A call to recover the original Easter vision in an age of mass incarceration Chris Hoke calls readers to recover the original vision of Easter in an age of mass incarceration. Palm Sunday as a call to nonviolence I believe the lesson of Palm Sunday is about our tendency to confuse God’s call to humility with a call to grasp for power, writes Aaron Neff. Holy Saturday prayer “Help me stay with the transformative tomb. / Help me trust it’s not over,” writes Arianne Braithwaite Lehn. Peace, Rose Schrott Taylor Digital Content Editor Presbyterian Outlook

Did you miss Presbyterian Outlook's conversation with members of the PC(USA) Special Committee to Write a New Confession? We have a recording available! Two new candidates stand for co-moderator of GA227 by Mike Ferguson How one Houston church turned a childcare crisis into a calling by Lydia Griffiths  Should churches respond to online outrage? by Trip Porch When foster youth age out, one WV church shows up by John Bolt In Dallas, clergy organize around ICE detention by Harriet Riley How Presbyterian politicians bring faith to public office by Gregg Brekke In case you missed it... Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story In "Marce Catlett," Wendell Berry shows how stories of land, labor, and loss shape generations and our sense of belonging. Chris Taylor offers a review. Ghost Ranch Foundation receives transformative estate gift from Vernon Pack, son of Arthur Pack, original Donor of Ghost Ranch "Vernon Pack’s gift to Ghost Ranch is the continuation of his family's century-long commitment to the health of the natural and human community.” — Ghost Ranch Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World Alfred Walker reviews Art Cullen’s "Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest," a sobering look at climate change, farming and red-state politics. Without weeping, there is no raising Empathy is the heart of our covenantal relationship with one another, proclaims Chris Henry. 8 days, 7 bikers. 500 miles. Awesome church people. Lots of Presbyterians. Charlie Berthoud recounts his son’s 4,000-mile charity bike ride from Virginia to California and witnessing remarkable generosity — especially from church communities along the journey. Lessons from a penguin and his caregiver Rubén Arjona writes on how empathy allows us to imagine the other person’s feelings, thoughts and experiences.

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