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A Look At The PC(USA) Church Dismissals In Alaska

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/30/2013 12:54 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

PC(USA) GAPJC Decisions -- Presbytery of Newark v McNeill

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/2/2012 9:09 PM | Add Comment

Candidates For Moderator Of The 220th General Assembly (2012) Of The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/27/2012 8:29 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Mid Councils Commission Report To The 220th GA Of The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/25/2012 10:54 AM | Add Comment

Running The Numbers -- Dismissals From Tropical Florida And Mississippi Presbyteries

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/7/2012 10:51 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

"A Vast Diversity Of Interpretation" -- Redwoods Presbytery Expresses Their Disagreement With The Spahr II Decision

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/17/2012 12:17 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Threading The Needle -- SPJC Approves Standards Statement

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/11/2012 5:24 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

PC(USA) GAPJC Decision -- Parnell v. Presbytery of San Francisco

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/6/2012 7:46 AM | Add Comment

Haven't I Seen That Somewhere Before?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/11/2012 7:41 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

How Do You Get Your Message Out? New Development In Standing For Moderator

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/3/2012 8:51 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Musings On The FOP NRB Theology Document - 2. Theology Comes First

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/8/2012 9:01 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Follow Up On The Presbyterian Church In Canada Moderator Election -- Details And Discussion

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/29/2011 1:12 PM | Add Comment

The Airline Industry As A Model For The American Mainline Churches

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/21/2011 2:14 PM | Add Comment

Musings On The FOP NRB Polity Document - 1. Can I Declare An Exception?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/13/2011 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Second Moderator Candidate For 2012 PC(USA) GA Endorsed

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/14/2011 10:15 PM | Add Comment

The Fellowship Gathering -- Through The Tweets Dimly

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/30/2011 12:27 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

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Fellowship PC(USA) Gathering -- Some Things To Pay Attention To

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/15/2011 10:24 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Two PC(USA) GAPJC Decisions On Ordination Standards -- A Plate Of Polity, Doctrine On The Side...

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/2/2011 9:09 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

"The Medium Is The Message"... Again

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/31/2011 9:26 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

New Ordination Standards Language In The PC(USA) And The Discussion Of Standards

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/8/2011 10:12 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Releases The Latest Membership Statistics

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/2/2011 4:17 PM | Add Comment

"We Are Presbyterian" And "We Are PC(USA)"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/23/2011 1:26 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

PC(USA) Polity Implications Of Amendment 10-A Passage

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/7/2011 9:24 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Synod PJC Upholds the Presbytery PJC Decision In Spahr Case

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/4/2011 12:36 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The PC(USA) Does Appear To Have A "Lightning Rod"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/30/2011 12:11 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

A Brief Update On Cross-Issue Correlation In PC(USA) Amendment Voting

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/15/2011 6:32 PM | Add Comment

The Fog Around nFOG

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/9/2011 10:16 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Cross-Issue Correlation In PC(USA) Amendment Voting

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/2/2011 10:08 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

PC(USA) Amendment 10-A Voting About To Reach Half-Way Point

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/22/2011 10:40 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A New, Destructive, Earthquake Sequence In New Zealand

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/22/2011 9:19 AM | Add Comment

Drilling Down In The Religious Life Survey -- Is Church Attendance Really That Good An Indicator?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/20/2011 9:56 PM | Add Comment

National Council Of Churches Membership Data -- We Can Correlate That

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/19/2011 4:34 PM | Add Comment

Strong Cross-Issue Correlation In PC(USA) Amendment Voting To Date

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/11/2011 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Further Thoughts On The Fellowship PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/5/2011 2:58 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

An Interesting Invitation And Some Of My Preliminary Reactions

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/2/2011 4:25 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Church Of Scotland Redesigns Their Web Page

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/30/2011 8:34 PM | Add Comment

A Very Preliminary Look At Amendment Voting In The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/23/2011 10:22 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Web 2.0 And The Internet Are Changing The World -- An Example From The Scientific Community

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/12/2011 10:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Musings On Middle Governing Bodies

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/26/2010 1:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Digging Into Presbyterian Statistics -- PC(USA) Presbytery Growth Rates

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/20/2010 10:14 PM | Add Comment

Young People And The Church -- Another Interesting And Informative Study

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/18/2010 6:21 PM | Add Comment

All Churches Great And Small -- Congregation Size Distribution And Changes In The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/13/2010 6:40 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Thoughts On Modeling The Future Of The Mainline Churches

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/2/2010 10:32 PM | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Candidates For Moderator And... (1) Social Media

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/16/2010 2:41 PM | View Comments (10)

Following The FIFA World Cup - Or - As A G.A. Junkie What I Like About Association Football

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/15/2010 12:41 PM | Add Comment

The PCA Strategic Plan -- How Do You Grow Larger?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/13/2010 7:10 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Liturgy -- Don't Deny It, You Probably Have It

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/7/2010 12:36 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Presbyterians -- Owning The Label

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/8/2010 10:32 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Seminaries Supporting The PC(USA) - How Are They Represented In The Congregations

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/24/2010 7:29 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Lectionary - Border, Bastion, Or Barrier?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/12/2009 6:36 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Three Decisions From The GA Permanent Judicial Commission Of The PC(USA) -- Ordination Standards And More

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/4/2009 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Exit Strategy? Parallels In Institutional Realignment And Consequences

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/24/2009 11:17 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Presbyterians Certainly Are A Peculiar People

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/1/2009 1:07 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Patterns Of Proportionality In Presbyterian Partition -- Or -- Are Fractures Fractal?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/26/2009 10:45 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Presbytery Judicial Decision In A Same-sex Marriage Case

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/5/2009 1:06 PM | Add Comment

What Changed In The Sixties? The Implications For The Mainline

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/21/2009 12:45 PM | Add Comment

What Is Your Strategy For Mission? Some Thoughts On The Call Of Clergy In The Mainline Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/21/2009 9:07 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Preliminary Comments On The Faith In Flux Report

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/2/2009 9:00 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A Word Of Hope From The Amendment 08-B Voting Trends

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/17/2009 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Additional Overture On Women In The Church For PCA GA Posted

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/26/2009 1:56 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

What Is A Presbyterian? -- Part 2

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Some Brief Observations On PC(USA) Amendment 08-B Voting

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/21/2009 1:17 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

A Look At Some Details In the PC(USA) Membership Changes

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/30/2008 6:08 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

What Will The Next Year Look Like In The PC(USA)?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/30/2008 12:59 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The Future of the Mainline Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/5/2008 9:35 AM | Add Comment

PC(USA) GAPJC Decisions -- Walking a Center Line?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/12/2008 4:28 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

GAPCJ Decision: Stewart vs. Mission Presbytery - Ordination Standards probably apply to candidates

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/13/2007 5:48 AM | Add Comment
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