“My hope is that this group will help us identify areas of agreement and disagreement in Southern Baptist life concerning how God’s redemptive purposes are achieved through Christ. Once these are more clearly identified, we hope to develop some positive strategies that will enhance our ability to work together for the proclamation of the Gospel... Continue Reading

The compromise on offer, as with female priests, is to allow opponents to carry on with their parish life as if there were no female bishops – they can demand to be served only by men, and more particularly, only by men who will not themselves ordain women.     This autumn sees a decisive... Continue Reading

Those interested in prosecuting these cases now know what does not work so clearly the roadmap is to construct charges and prosecution strategy that includes Scripture, the Confessions and interpretation of the Directory for Worship that balances both the covenant community and the individual within it. Charges should have a theological depth like the Davis charges or the charges against Charles A. Briggs..

One year ago, prior to the PCA action at the 2012 General Assembly which passed an amendment to the Book of Church Order to clarify that the denomination standards do NOT permit the 'Intinction' form of administration of the Lord's Supper, Heartland Presbytery appointed a six man committee to study the issue for the Presbytery.

Young pastors are often turned down for positions because a retirement age minister wants the job. When a church is struggling to pay for a pastor, they can hire a pastor who is already retired, so they don’t have all the financial obligations that they would with a full-time, installed minister.

Although the policy requires session to call a congregational meeting, Detroit Presbytery asserts that a congregation does not have the right to take a non-binding advisory vote on this subject because it is not enumerated in the Book of Order as business for a congregational meeting and since the congregation, according to the Detroit Presbytery, cannot take this vote, the presbytery then as the right to override both the Book of Order and Michigan state law, which detail that congregation’s bylaws determine quorum for congregational meetings.

Are church members still Episcopal or something else? Even the new name of the new diocese could be confusing. “We’re trying not to focus on names here. But more than anything else, I think people are looking around the pews at the people around them and realizing that this is the church, no matter what we call ourselves.”

“But what we have asked for is that for the fact that most of the churches that make up the Communion were part and parcel of the British Empire before, the original British Empire has changed method, which is now the Commonwealth, the same thing, the leadership in the Church should equally change.”   The... Continue Reading

We are thankful to hear of many desiring to help. It is reasonable to anticipate opportunities for teams or individuals to help both on Long Island and in the Toms River area. Thank you for your patience in allowing us the time required to coordinate this response effort and to allow the first responders to finish their work of making conditions safe for us to enter.

Decision only ‘declarative’ in case of Danville, CA congregation; but all Presbyteries now must bring policies in line with this decision   The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission (GAPJC) has ruled that a presbytery must “fulfill its fiduciary duty under the trust clause,” when it considers dismissing a congregation from the Presbyterian Church (USA) into... Continue Reading