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• Where Did The GA Go?

  
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  I arrived at work this morning, fired up my computer and sat down to livestream the General Assembly the Church of Scotland in the background as I got ready to read my email. But there was nothing there! Oh no... This GA Junkie is going to go through withdraw having expected a hit of polity this morning. It ...
  3 days ago

• Greenville South Carolina’s First Presbyterian Church Leaves PCUSA, Joins ECO

  
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  Back in 2003, when the actions of The Episcopal Church’s General Convention rippled back to the shores of Greenville, South Carolina’s Episcopal congregations, many Episcopalians left for the downtown, historic PCUSA church rather than stay in TEC.  In fact, that church, along with a large, independent, ...
  4 days ago

• Two PCUSA Presbyteries Shed 30% of Membership

  
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  Two PCUSA presbyteries took big hits in the past week, according to the Layman Online. First, there was Tropical Florida : One of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s largest Florida presbyteries will be losing almost a third of its membership after the 57-church Presbytery of Tropical Florida approved the dismissal ...
  4 days ago

• Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending May 19, 2012 -- Bullying, Departures and a Merger

  
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  A few items that caught my attention this week Church of Scotland hit by staff bullying claims Herald Scotland, 19 May 2012 As the 2012 General Assembly gets underway there are reports that a secret survey of the Kirks central office staff alleges "disturbing levels of bullying." Congregations leave local ...
  6 days ago

• When Should a Church Schism?

  
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  I took a lot of heat from my Methodist friends last week for suggesting that young clergy forsake the denomination and go do something new. Let me be clear: I don’t expect one single Methodist clergyperson or seminarian to jump ship because I blogged about it. Puhleeze, people. I will reiterate something: It is ...
  1 week ago

• Rethinking Worship in a Small Congregation

  
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  The Session at the church I serve has recently announced that we will be switching up our morning worship schedule. Our church has had a variety of schedules in the past 10 years or so, but after 10 months of listening to the congregation in a variety of ways, the Session has decided that we will be switching to one ...
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• Anti-Gay Views Are Not a Faithful Part of the Reformed Tradition

  
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  Here is a fine article in Salon, Christianitys anti-gay stance backfires . 59 percent of teenagers who grow up as church-going Christians abandon their faith in adulthood. One of the major reasons is the gay rights issue. Overall, the perception–a largely correct one, I’d add–is that modern conservative ...
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• I Will Be Ushering In the PCUSAs Apocalypse

  
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  In keeping with the theme of mass hysteria and hyperbole, here is yet another troubled soul bearing witness to my powers : Who is responsible for allowing John to be a Pastor in a Christian church? Is it the members of his church? Is it the Presbytery? Frankly its all of the PCUSAS members. How anyone in the PCUSA ...
  3 weeks ago

• LGBTIQXYZ Activists Disrupt Methodist General Conference

  
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  Moral infants, Che wannabes, and 60s leftovers join together to bang spoons on their high chairs at the United Methodist General Conference while the delegates…leave: I’m sure this made them feel soooooo much more righteous than the pitiful peons ignoring their little temper tantrum. (Via IRD .)
  3 weeks ago

• Tutu Tells Methodists What To Do

  
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  For Archbishop Desmond Tutu, everything must be seen through the lens of apartheid. It’s not surprising, therefore, that he takes to the pages of the Tampa Bay Times today to try to influence the United Methodist General Conference to see Israel that way as well: A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending April 28, 2012 -- Realignments And African Issues

  
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  For American Presbyterians this week was all about realignment, specifically headlines about churches in various stages of moving from the PC(USA) to ECO. These include... Sparked by acceptance of gay ministers, First Presbyterian bolts denomination The Gazette of Colorado Springs, April 22, 2012. An earlier ...
  3 weeks ago

• General Assembly Season 2012

  
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  GA Junkies ready? It is the start of General Assembly Season 2012!  Get your coffee ready, alarm clocks set and your internet streaming tuned up. Here is what I am looking forward to... (based on best available information - I will update as I get full details) General Assembly Free Church of Scotland May 2012 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Complaints Against Lisa Larges "Not Sustained"

  
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  This news just in: The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission dismissed all the complaints that had been cobbled together to prevent her ordination to ministry in the PC(USA).  Lisa has been trying to be ordained as a minister since before I started seminary.  That is a long call process. Here is her ...
  3 weeks ago

• ECO = We dont want equality for gay people

  
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  The LayMAN reports that 47 congregations are girding up their loins to leave the PC(USA) for greener more ECO friendly pastures .    These ECO friendly pastures will be pure and lovely and wont have any nasty gay people grazing about (at least in leadership positions). The congregations offer lists of ...
  3 weeks ago

• I am the Most Powerful Presbyterian in the United States!

  
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  Tremble before me. Earl Tilford knows that I am like a god: On the same blog you cited , Shuck ridiculed the First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs for leaving the denomination. Well, there goes another great Church and 4,000 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Carol Howard Merritt on (Re)Imagining Christianity

  
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  This post is part of an ongoing blog series on Pomomusings entitled “(Re)Imagining Christianity.” To read about the series, as well as get a full schedule of participants, click here . What is one belief, practice or element of Christianity that must die so that Christianity can move forward and truly impact ...
  4 weeks ago

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