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define:GA Junkie
Pronounced "gee-eh-jun-key"
GA: Abbrv. for General Assembly, the highest governing body in many presbyterian style churches
A GA Junkie is someone who closely follows the politics of Presbyterianism
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The GA Junkie: Category Archive for news

Congregationalism Is Hierarchical? -- Or -- Who Controls What It Means To Be Congregationalist?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/28/2009 6:34 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

73rd General Synod Of The Bible Presbyterian Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/6/2009 12:51 PM | Add Comment

Developments In Scotland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/5/2009 9:45 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

You Have To Admit The Anglicans Know How To Do Schism

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/14/2009 12:58 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

EPC General Assembly, PC(USA) Membership Statistics, Ecumenical Relations -- Yes, There Is A Thread There

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/29/2009 10:17 PM | View Comments (3)

Seeing Double -- Recent Developments in the U.S. Anglican/Episcopal Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/26/2009 12:35 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The 29th General Assembly Of The Evangelical Presbyterian Church -- Upcoming Next Week

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/22/2009 10:23 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) Releases 2008 Membership Statistics

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/18/2009 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The 37th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In America -- Moving From Committee To Plenary

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/16/2009 7:01 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

135th General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church In Canada -- Summary And Comments

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/15/2009 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland -- Reaction To The Judicial Case

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/25/2009 9:00 PM | Add Comment

General Assembly (2009) of the Church of Scotland Convenes

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/21/2009 7:18 AM | Add Comment

Voting Trends For Amendment 08-B -- Part 3 - Breakout Sessions

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/19/2009 6:25 PM | Add Comment

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland This Week -- The Media Build Up Continues

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/16/2009 9:49 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

What Does It Take To Get Ordained Around Here?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/12/2009 12:18 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Voting Trends For Amendment 08-B -- Part 2 - Summary Statistics For The Presbyteries

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/6/2009 9:04 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Church Property Case Headed For The U.S. Supreme Court

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/6/2009 12:35 PM | Add Comment

Debate Preceding The Church Of Scotland General Assembly -- Focus Shifts To Web 2.0

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/5/2009 12:27 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Two Additional Overtures To The 37th General Assembly Of The PCA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/29/2009 9:27 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Current Church of Scotland Controversy Remains Active

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/29/2009 12:27 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Voting Trends For Amendment 08-B -- Part 1 - Summary Statistics

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/28/2009 12:56 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Episcopal Polity Statement From The Anglican Communion Institute -- The Rest Of The Story?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/27/2009 12:37 PM | Add Comment

And You Think Presbyterian Polity Is Confusing...

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/24/2009 12:55 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Amendment 08-B One Vote From Failing With More Presbyteries Switching Votes Yesterday

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/22/2009 8:43 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Controvery Headed To The Church Of Scotland General Assembly Increases

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/21/2009 10:13 PM | Add Comment

Latest News And Some Local Commentary On The Presbyterian Church Of Ghana

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/14/2009 1:07 PM | Add Comment

The Future Of Mainline Protestant Churches -- I Am Trying To Decide If A Recent News Story Says Anything About It

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/8/2009 7:57 AM | Add Comment

Reflections On The Amendment 08-B Voting -- Preliminary Musings On The Text

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/5/2009 3:09 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Presbytery Voting In The PC(USA) -- All But B And I Have Passed

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/3/2009 8:08 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Appointments To PC(USA) Special Committees And Task Forces

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/3/2009 2:55 PM | Add Comment

WARC And REC Merger To Form WCRC Moving Forward

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/31/2009 12:56 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Hope For The Presbyterian Mutual Society Stakeholders?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/31/2009 12:16 PM | Add Comment

Economic Downturn Impacts The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/29/2009 8:49 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Two Sign Posts On The Journey With Standards For Ordained Office: 1 - PC(USA) and the Synod of the Pacific

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/24/2009 9:13 PM | Add Comment

The Latest Issue Of Presbyterians Today

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/23/2009 6:55 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

General Assembly Season Is Almost Upon Us

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/21/2009 5:21 PM | Add Comment

PCA Amendment Voting And GA Overtures

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/20/2009 12:54 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Outreach By The Presbyterian Church Of Ghana

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/18/2009 8:07 PM | Add Comment

Membership Changes In American Churches -- Part I

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/12/2009 12:56 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

PC(USA) Amendment Voting Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/11/2009 11:45 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Decisions From The PC(USA) GAPJC

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/5/2009 1:35 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Brief Update on PC(USA) Amendment 08-B Voting -- A Tale Of Two Weekends

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/1/2009 1:45 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

PC(USA) Amendment 08-B Voting At The Half-Way Mark

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/27/2009 10:38 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

Amendment 08-B Voting At The One-Third Mark

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/17/2009 1:16 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Upcoming PCA General Assembly -- Mid-February Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/14/2009 8:42 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

The EPC General Assembly And Other Developments Related To The Ordination Of Women

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/12/2009 12:49 PM | Add Comment

Indulgences -- You Mean They Are Still Around?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/10/2009 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Presbyterian Mutual Society To Wind Down

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/10/2009 1:54 PM | Add Comment

Status Of The Controversal Call To A Charge In The Church Of Scotland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/5/2009 9:48 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Update On The Presbyterian Church In Ireland -- Moderator Designate And Mutual Society

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/5/2009 7:55 PM | Add Comment

An Account Of The Amendment 08-B Process In The Presbytery of Western North Carolina

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/3/2009 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Looking Forward To GA Season -- PCA, PC Canada, EPC

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/2/2009 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Amendment 08-B Voting At The 20% Mark

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/2/2009 1:16 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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

Bad News From The Presbyterian Mutual Society In Ireland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/16/2009 3:33 PM | Add Comment

Gracious Witness -- The World Does See It

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/13/2009 10:28 AM | Add Comment

Current Presbyterian News From Ghana

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/12/2009 8:04 PM

Further News And Comments On The Developing Controversy In The Church Of Scotland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/10/2009 12:28 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Controversy Over A Pastoral Call In The Church Of Scotland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/9/2009 1:55 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

California Supreme Court Decision: Denomination Controls The Property

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/5/2009 2:06 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

New Pastoral Terminology - Or - Is That Above His Pay Grade?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/20/2008 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Passings -- Avery Dulles S.J.

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/13/2008 9:10 PM | Add Comment

Passings -- Jane Parker Huber

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/7/2008 5:04 PM | Add Comment

A Different Sort Of Lord's Day In Ghana

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/5/2008 1:53 PM | Add Comment

An Interesting Trend In PC(USA) Amendment Voting

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/17/2008 1:55 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Churches Leaving The PC(USA) And The Status Of Women's Ordination

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/17/2008 1:34 PM | Add Comment

Passings -- Rev. Louis Evans Jr.

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/17/2008 7:52 AM | Add Comment

Prayers For the Moderator's Extended Family

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/16/2008 7:45 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Financial Crisis Has Varing Impact On Presbyterian Investment Funds

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/12/2008 10:12 PM | Add Comment

Passings -- Evan Silverstein, PNS Reporter

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/10/2008 12:23 PM | Add Comment

New PC(USA) GAPJC Decisions -- Administrative Commissions In The Spotlight

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/8/2008 7:05 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Women Clergy Controversy Continues In Ireland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/7/2008 12:13 PM | Add Comment

Semi-Random Thoughts On Election 2008

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/5/2008 12:40 PM | Add Comment

The Rev. William Hewitt Selected Moderator Designate for Church of Scotland General Assembly (2009)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/31/2008 12:57 PM | Add Comment

Presbyterian Controversies

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/31/2008 9:10 AM | Add Comment

PC(USA) Amendment Voting Begins

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/23/2008 9:38 AM | Add Comment

The Legal Cases Over Property -- Counting The Cost

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/22/2008 8:30 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

National Youth Assembly 2008 -- What Happened?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/13/2008 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Property Cases Argued Before The California Supreme Court Today

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/8/2008 3:11 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Disagreement Over The Belhar Declaration In South Africa -- Implications For The PC(USA) Consideration?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/5/2008 8:22 PM | Add Comment

Action By The Pacific Northwest Presbytery, PCA, Related To Federal Vision Theology

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/5/2008 12:25 PM | Add Comment

Pittsburgh PJC Decision Appears To Be Based on Spahr v Redwoods

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/2/2008 2:08 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Watching the Pittsburgh PJC Trial and Inaccurate Media Headlines

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/2/2008 8:19 AM | Add Comment

Some Odds and Ends - September 2008

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/19/2008 12:35 PM | Add Comment

The General Assembly (2008) of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/18/2008 1:08 PM | Add Comment

Boundary Dispute Between CCAP Synods Continues in Malawi

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/17/2008 12:22 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Amendments A - N -- It Is Not Just Amendment B

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/16/2008 9:23 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

A Bit More On Property Cases

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/12/2008 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Summary Judgement in the Kirk of the Hills Property Case

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/10/2008 12:49 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Next Moderator of the Church of Scotland -- The Process

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/5/2008 8:36 AM | Add Comment

Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly 2008

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/3/2008 12:53 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

The Changes in the PC(USA) Ordination Exam on Biblical Exegesis -- Brief Observations and Comments

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/2/2008 12:11 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Women in Ordained Ministry in the Church -- Current Discussion and Some Thoughts

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/27/2008 1:04 PM | Add Comment

8th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/27/2008 6:51 AM | Add Comment

The 67th, and last, General Synod of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/26/2008 2:14 PM | Add Comment

Closely Watched Judicial Cases Affecting the PC(USA) Scheduled For October

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/22/2008 12:57 PM | Add Comment

72nd General Synod (2008) of the Bible Presbyterian Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/21/2008 12:11 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

For All Have Sinned And Fall Short Of The Glory Of God

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/14/2008 7:44 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

75th General Assembly (2008) of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/13/2008 12:59 PM | Add Comment

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