The Thirty-eighth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America met in Nashville, Tennessee June 29-July 2, 2010, at the Nashville Convention Center, hosted by Nashville Presbytery. A total of 1,311 commissioners attended (978 Teaching Elders and 333 Ruling Elders). In addition to acting upon the reports of the ten General-Assembly-level Permanent Committees and Agencies,... Continue Reading

The OPC is meeting through Wednesday on the campus of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois (a community about 30 minutes south of Chicago). The Commissioners returned on Monday after a full day of rest and worship on the Christian Sabbath.’ While a number of different OPC congregations in the Greater Chicago area hosted... Continue Reading

The head of the second largest Lutheran body in the country greeted delegates over the weekend with a note of affirmation that they are the front-line defenders of biblical truths. While lamenting the liberal direction that their sister body, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and The Episcopal Church have taken in recent years, Gerald... Continue Reading

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is over. So, let’s do the math. During the week, the assembly approved items of business with financial implications for the denomination’s two budgets – the mission budget and per-capita budget. Additions to the mission budget were: $52,087 for 2010, $295,861 for 2011 and $207,683 for 2012.... Continue Reading

Four versus 57. Numbers talk. Great Commission versus Cultural Mandate. That was the ratio of General Assembly business items dealing with evangelism or church planting (four) versus the number of business items (57) in five committees tasked with social-witness business. Between the evangelistic mandate to make disciples and the cultural mandate to make the world... Continue Reading

Legislation clearing the way for women bishops in the Church of England has passed a key hurdle in spite of fears of a walkout by traditionalists. Members of the Church’s national assembly, the General Synod, rejected calls for further delay in the progress of a draft law paving the way for women to be made... Continue Reading

Archbishop of Canterbury admits to ‘desperately difficult’ process. The Archbishop of Canterbury has assured traditionalists that the Church of England remains committed to finding a way for them to stay within the fold despite the defeat of a compromise measure in General Synod on Saturday. Synod, currently meeting in York, voted Monday morning in favour... Continue Reading

Anglo-Catholics and conservative evangelicals who object to women bishops have threatened to leave the Church after claiming that current plans do not meet their demands. The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the General Synod of the Church of England not to stall the progress of legislation to introduce women bishops. Dr Rowan Williams said the... Continue Reading

In a highly-charged debate at the General Synod, the Church’s parliament, members rejected a compromise deal put forward by the archbishops of Canterbury and York which would have averted a schism. The archbishops’ plans would have seen the creation of a new class of male-only bishops to look after conservative evangelical and Anglo-Catholic parishes opposed... Continue Reading

There were fresh calls for unity in the Church of England as traditionalists prepared to lobby for a compromise on the ordination of women as bishops while also warning of the risk of defection over the issue. Traditionalists, made up of two separate groups – Anglo-Catholics and conservative evangelicals – were locked in high-level meetings... Continue Reading