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2012 General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church In Ireland

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Where Did The GA Go?

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

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Threading The Needle -- SPJC Approves Standards Statement

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

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

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Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending April 14, 2012

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

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Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending March 24, 2012

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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

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

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The Airline Industry As A Model For The American Mainline Churches

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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

An Interesting Development In The Presbyterian Church In Canada - Active Campaigning For Moderator

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/3/2011 11:32 PM | View Comments (3) | 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

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

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

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

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

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

31st General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church

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207th General Synod Of The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/8/2011 1:27 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

39th General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church In America

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The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland Chooses Their Trajectory

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General Assembly Of The Free Church Of Scotland 2011

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/22/2011 6:45 PM | 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

The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland -- Discussion Over Ordination Standards

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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 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

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

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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

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Tensions In Nigeria Lead To New Presbyterian Branch

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Mixing Politics and Religion In The CCAP - Or - Who Speaks For The Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/24/2010 10:51 PM | Add Comment

Constitutional Voting In The PC(USA)

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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

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

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

PC(USA) Constitutional Amendment Booklets (Mostly) Available

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The 219th General Assembly Of The PC(USA) -- Not Business As Usual For One Item

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

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

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

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Presbyterian Government And American Government -- The Same Only Different

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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

How Much Presbyterianism Can You Handle In One Day?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/10/2010 1:02 PM | Add Comment

136th General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church In Canada

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/3/2010 10:00 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The 2010 Assemblies Discussing Central Points Of Presbyterian And Reformed Thought

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The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- Recommendations Of The Committee On Ecumenical Relations Regarding The Evangelical Presbyterian Church

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Approaching The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland

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EPC Report Of The Interim Committee On Women Teaching Elders

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

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Indiana Court Awards Property To Particular Church And Not PC(USA) Presbytery And Synod

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The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Re-envisioning The Process

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The New Presbyterian Panel Survey From The PC(USA) -- An Interesting Editorial Addition

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/6/2010 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Presbytery Merger In The Presbyterian Church Of Aotearoa New Zealand And Some Polity Observations

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Radical Presbyterians

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/4/2009 1:53 PM | Add Comment

The Value Of A Contrary Opinion

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/25/2009 10:23 PM | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- Synods: An Expanding Or Contracting Universe?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/2/2009 1:08 PM | Add Comment

The PC(USA) New Revised Form Of Government -- Introductory Thoughts And The Revised Foundations

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/8/2009 12:41 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Developments At Coral Ridge -- What Does It Say About Confessional Standards?

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A First Look At A Uniting Church

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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

Ecclesiastical Discipline Uprightly Ministered

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

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Presbyterian Congregations And Presbyterian Government -- A Point Of Tension?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/21/2009 12:11 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) Amendment Voting Update

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

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Amendment 08-B Voting At The 20% Mark

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Controversy Over A Pastoral Call In The Church Of Scotland

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PC(USA) Presbyteries Considering Ecumenical Statements

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/6/2009 4:17 PM | Add Comment

Looking Ahead: What Are The Options?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/31/2008 6:58 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Twists And Turns Of Pursuing A Pastoral Call

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Being Synod-cal

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/26/2008 10:41 PM | Add Comment

Taking Time To Be A Moderator

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/17/2008 1:16 PM | Add Comment

Another Case Of "Since 'X' Is By Definition Impossible, What You Saw Could Not Have Been 'X'"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/4/2008 9:15 PM | 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

PresbyLimpic Events over at QG

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/21/2008 10:29 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Modern Echos of the Adopting Act of 1729

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PC(USA) Process for Amending the Consitution

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The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Committee Polity Recommendations

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The PC(USA) General Assembly -- What are they thinking?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/24/2008 10:14 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Episcopal Church Update and their Polity Debate

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/17/2008 12:57 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Report of the Form of Government Task Force -- New Form of Government and Concluding Comments

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/15/2008 1:45 PM | Add Comment

The Report of the Form of Government Task Force -- General Comments and the Foundations of Presbyterian Polity

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/14/2008 1:53 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Update and correction on the PC(USA) Form of Government Task Force

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/10/2007 12:43 PM | Add Comment

News on PC(USA) Book of Order revisions

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/19/2007 7:47 AM | Add Comment

New PC(USA) Advisory Opinion on Honorably Retired Ministers and Validated Ministry

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/21/2007 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Rewriting the PC(USA) Form of Government

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/2/2006 8:13 AM | Add Comment
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