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Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending May 26, 2012 -- Assemblies, Departures and Arson

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/29/2012 9:56 PM | Add Comment

Where Did The GA Go?

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

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/21/2012 12:35 PM | View Comments (2) | 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

Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending May 12, 2012 -- WCC, Leadership, Dismissal and Jobs

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Threading The Needle -- SPJC Approves Standards Statement

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Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending May 5, 2012 -- Ghana Elections, PC(USA) Divestment And Structure

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/8/2012 9:40 AM | 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

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

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/1/2012 9:24 PM | Add Comment

General Assembly Season 2012

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PC(USA) GAPJC Decision -- Hwang v. Synod Of Southern California And Hawaii

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/20/2012 9:26 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

A Full Slate For Vice-Moderator Nominees For The PC(USA) 220th GA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/19/2012 10:12 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending April 7, 2012

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Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending March 31, 2012

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PC(USA) Synod PJC Decisions -- Per Capita And Property

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/31/2012 9:46 AM | Add Comment

Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending March 24, 2012

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/27/2012 5:40 PM | Add Comment

Where Two Or Three Are Gathered

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/8/2012 11:23 AM | Add Comment

Fifth Moderator Candidate For 220th PC(USA) GA (2012) Announced And The First Vice-Moderator Announcement

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/5/2012 2:00 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

PC(USA) GAPJC Decision In The Spahr 2012 Case: 1. The Decision

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/22/2012 10:45 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Haven't I Seen That Somewhere Before?

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

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

Passings -- Tom Gillespie

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/7/2011 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Fourth Moderator Candidate For 220th PC(USA) GA (2012) Endorsed

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/28/2011 8:09 PM | Add Comment

Third Moderator Candidate For 220th PC(USA) GA (2012) Endorsed

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/15/2011 8:52 PM | Add Comment

First Moderator Candidate For 2012 PC(USA) GA Endorsed

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/4/2011 6:44 PM | Add Comment

Reverberations From Ordination Decisions: Some Challenges In The Church Of Scotland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/22/2011 12:29 PM | Add Comment

Reverberations From Ordination Decisions: The PC(USA) And Her Global Partners

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/14/2011 6:38 PM | View Comments (2) | 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

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

Presbyterian Church Of Ghana And Their Stand On Homosexuality

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/9/2011 9:49 PM | View Comments (2) | 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

A Sign Of The Times - PC(USA) Charging For The PDF Of The New Edition Of The Book Of Order

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/19/2011 10:03 PM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

181st General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/9/2011 6:19 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

A Couple Of Changes In The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/10/2011 11:04 PM | View Comments (2) | 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

Whither The PC(USA)? Wither The PC(USA)?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/18/2011 6:01 PM | View Comments (5) | 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

My Thoughts On The New Movements In The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/4/2011 10:22 PM | View Comments (10) | 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

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

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

New PC(USA) GAPJC Decision -- The Southard Decision

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/9/2011 1:47 PM | View Comments (1) | 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

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

Constitutional Voting In The PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/19/2010 1:14 PM | Add Comment

Officers Of The Church -- Prepetual Or Three-And-Out?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/15/2010 9:42 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Special Commission On Middle Governing Bodies Gets To Work

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/11/2010 11:41 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

More Official Presbyterians On Social Media

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/2/2010 12:46 PM | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Further Reflection On Not Business As Usual

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/28/2010 12:44 PM | View Comments (2) | 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

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

Synod PJC Ruling In The Case Of Caledonia And Others v. Knox

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/12/2010 12:24 PM | Add Comment

Another Step In The Journey -- Synod PJC Decision In Parnell And Others v. Presbytery Of San Francisco

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/5/2010 6:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Sunday Worship At The PC(USA) 219th General Assembly Catalyzes Global Discussion

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/4/2010 3:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

PC(USA) Constitutional Amendment Booklets (Mostly) Available

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/31/2010 2:53 PM | Add Comment

Presbytery PJC Decision In Redwoods v. Spahr (2010)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/27/2010 1:15 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

New Moderators Take To The Web

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/3/2010 9:41 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 PC(USA) -- Not Business As Usual For One Item

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/13/2010 9:32 PM | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- Summaries Of The Assembly

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/10/2010 10:25 PM | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- The Clock Is Ticking

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/10/2010 4:34 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- But Will The Presbyteries Concur?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/8/2010 8:58 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- The GA At The Midway Point

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/7/2010 12:17 PM | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- Election Of The Moderator

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/3/2010 9:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/2/2010 9:23 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

New Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Web Site

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/30/2010 10:33 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Annual Statistical Report Of The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/30/2010 12:30 PM | View Comments (2) | 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)

Latest case in the PC(USA) ordination standards debate - Mission Presbytery

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