The following article is taken from the Unsettled Christianity Blog and written by a Lutheran theology student. This article loudly begs for submissions of 'You Might Be A Presbyterian if……' and/or 'You Might Be Dutch Reformed if……' (or many, many other) responses.

6) Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me" (Matthew 25:40). We affirm that the Church is called to seek justice for all, to extend God's compassion for those in need, and to work for peace among all nations and peoples.

They contended (security) fosters diversity and freedom of speech on the pulpit and provides protection for clergy in the denomination's distinctive itinerant system. Clergy are required to go where they are sent by bishops and can be asked to move every four years or so.

American churches are dealing with a challenge similar to the dilemma faced by the major political parties: How do you keep your "base" involved while appealing to a broader range of new, preferably younger, people?

1. May a presbytery pass a resolution concerning the manner of life for its teaching elders as part of the proper exercise of the presbytery's authority. 2. Does a Presbytery have the right to dismiss a church with its property, in that the property is held 'in trust' for the denomination? 3. May a pastor participate in a same-sex marriage ceremony?

Although women can serve as deacons and priests in Anglican churches, they are still fighting for ordination into the highest echelons of the clergy. Many from the more liberal side of the Communion have insisted that the law should change to allow women to be ordained as bishops, but conservatives maintain that Christ’s disciples were... Continue Reading

Sovereign Grace Ministries, which recently moved from Maryland to Kentucky to rebuild a fractured network and strengthen ties with Southern Seminary, is now in the news for allegedly covering up allegations of child sexual abuse committed by church members.     A controversial church-planting network with ties to a Southern Baptist Convention seminary has been... Continue Reading

Theological revisionism, moral relativism, a lack of confidence in Holy Scripture and a failure of nerve to proclaim the Good News of God’s salvation in obedience to the Great Commission, has resulted in increasingly smaller and aging congregations living out their final years murmuring the creed and going through the Prayer Book with as much... Continue Reading

New York City pastor and best-selling author Timothy J. Keller helped spearhead the movement more than two decades ago. In 1989, he moved from rural Virginia to Manhattan and founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church. With several thousand in worship every week, Redeemer Presbyterian is perhaps the most celebrated city-center church story of recent years.

Indeed, the reference in Acts 15:22 to “the apostles and the elders, with the whole church” suggests that leaders from various congregations came together in the Jerusalem Council to make decisions for the wider body. This is the heartbeat of Presbyterian polity and reason to think “church” can mean in effect, “a subset of leaders who represent the whole.”