The GA Junkie: Category Archive for PCUSA

The GA Junkie

The Politics of Presbyterianism

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 PCUSA

Modern Echos of the Adopting Act of 1729

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/10/2008 7:49 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Organizational Reactions

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/16/2008 9:49 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Collecting Confessions in the PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/14/2008 12:50 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

PC(USA) Process for Amending the Consitution

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/6/2008 11:47 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Quality of Media Coverage of Ordination Standards

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/29/2008 9:44 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- GA Summary Sheet

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/29/2008 3:55 PM | View Comments (13) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Saturday 2 Morning

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/28/2008 9:30 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Friday Evening

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/27/2008 7:21 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Friday Afternoon

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/27/2008 2:58 PM | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Friday Morning

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/27/2008 8:33 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Friday morning in San Jose

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/27/2008 7:35 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Thursday Evening

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/26/2008 7:59 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Thursday Afternoon

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/26/2008 2:33 PM | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Thursday Morning

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/26/2008 8:36 AM | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Wednesday Evening

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/25/2008 7:31 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Live Blogging Wednesday Afternoon

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/25/2008 2:30 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/25/2008 2:00 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/25/2008 1:00 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The PC(USA) General Assembly -- Tuesday Afternoon Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/24/2008 3:45 PM | Add Comment

The PC(USA) General Assembly -- Tuesday Noon Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/24/2008 2:18 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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

The PC(USA) General Assembly -- More Comments on Monday Committee Meetings

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/23/2008 11:40 PM | Add Comment

The PC(USA) General Assembly -- Monday Committee Meetings and Some Polity Musings

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/23/2008 10:46 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) membership statistics for 2007

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/22/2008 8:49 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- Reflections on the Moderator Election

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/22/2008 4:34 PM | Add Comment

The PC(USA) General Assembly -- Live Blogging Moderator Election

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/21/2008 7:12 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The PC(USA) General Assembly -- Saturday Afternoon Reflections

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/21/2008 3:49 PM | Add Comment

The PC(USA) General Assembly -- Live Blogging Saturday Morning 1

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/21/2008 10:00 AM | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) -- The Journey Begins

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/21/2008 12:49 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

What's Shaking in San Jose?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/19/2008 7:36 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

A Paperless GA? Not quite.

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/17/2008 8:21 AM | Add Comment

The Future of the Mainline Church -- An Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/15/2008 12:58 PM | Add Comment

The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Foundation and Empire

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/13/2008 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Ten-minutes with Bruce

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/7/2008 6:00 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Synod PJC Lets Restoration To Ordained Ministry Stand

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/16/2008 12:34 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- I Posted Too Soon

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/9/2008 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Early May Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/8/2008 3:23 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) General Assembly Moderator Candidate Events

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/2/2008 12:58 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

PC(USA) GA PJC Decision in Spahr v. Redwoods Presbytery: Reaction and Analysis

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/30/2008 8:42 AM | Add Comment

Breaking news: PC(USA) GA PJC finds for Spahr in Same-sex Unions Case

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/29/2008 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Synod of the Sun (PC(USA)) Establishes Administrative Commission for Presbytery of South Louisiania Property Cases

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/28/2008 12:55 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Late April Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/24/2008 12:38 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Mid-April Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/18/2008 12:35 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Another Early April Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/12/2008 11:04 AM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Early-April Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/9/2008 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Official PC(USA) Blogs

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/4/2008 8:02 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) Stated Clerk Nominating Committee Selection -- Rev. Gradye Parsons

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/3/2008 11:59 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Late-March Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/25/2008 2:28 PM | Add Comment

Remedial Case Filed Against Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area Over Restoration of Ordination

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/21/2008 7:33 AM | Add Comment

More from the Stewardship Conference: Stewardship as a Spiritual Discipline

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/19/2008 12:35 PM | Add Comment

Better Mission Funding Through On-Line Social Networking?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/15/2008 6:09 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Mid-March Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/12/2008 1:53 PM | Add Comment

GA Registration Problems: Site Overload?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/3/2008 10:01 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- End of February Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/28/2008 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- At the 120 Day Mark

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/22/2008 2:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Nothing Has Changed! Reaction to the PC(USA) GAPJC Decisions

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/18/2008 4:35 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

PC(USA) Headlines

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/14/2008 1:38 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Mid-February Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/13/2008 2:47 PM | 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

Breaking News: GAPJC Decisions that Presbyteries Must Consider Exceptions to Ordination Standards

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/12/2008 1:45 PM | Add Comment

The Church and New Technology -- The Thrill and the Threat

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/7/2008 9:30 PM | Add Comment

Tension in the EPC/PCUSA Relationship?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/7/2008 8:30 AM | Add Comment

Passings: Jack Stotts, Lewis Wilkins, and William Smith

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/5/2008 1:51 PM | Add Comment

Presbyterian News Service Article on The "School of the Americas"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/31/2008 8:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Upcoming PC(USA) General Assembly -- Late January Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/28/2008 1:11 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area Approves a Non-essential Departure

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/27/2008 3:54 PM | Add Comment

Recent Developments in Churches Breaking with the PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/21/2008 2:23 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) 218th General Assembly -- Mid-January Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/16/2008 1:04 PM | Add Comment

San Francisco Presbytery Approves a Non-essential Departure

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/16/2008 7:45 AM | 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

Ordination Standards Post-PUP in San Francisco Presbytery Meeting this week

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/12/2008 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Presbytery Meeting by Video Conference

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/30/2007 5:33 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Presbyterian Official Blogging Continues

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/18/2007 10:30 AM | Add Comment

Coverage of a new film on the Bible and Homosexuality

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/18/2007 9:38 AM | Add Comment

More Business for the 2008 PC(USA) General Assembly

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/14/2007 10:32 PM | Add Comment

Episcopal Diocese to Realign and Church Property in California

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/9/2007 5:23 PM | Add Comment

Passings: T. F. Torrance and Gene Sibery

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/5/2007 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Looking Ahead: More News about the 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/29/2007 10:41 PM | Add Comment

PUP Report and Ordination Standards: Nothing has changed?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/20/2007 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Looking Ahead: 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/12/2007 11:02 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

What matters to whom? Different Perspectives on the Controversies in the PCUSA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/9/2007 10:40 PM | Add Comment

PCUSA Communication: No apparent change yet

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/9/2007 12:24 PM | Add Comment

It has been a long week around here

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/28/2007 2:58 PM | Add Comment

Presbyterian Church (USA) and Church of Scotland Parallels

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/28/2007 6:51 AM | Add Comment

Official Presbyterian Blogging

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/17/2007 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Want to be a Stated Clerk?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/8/2007 2:32 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) GAC Meeting: Change is coming. Will it be enough?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/8/2007 12:55 PM | Add Comment

Reaction to Rev. Kirkpatrick's decision to not run for fourth term

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/13/2007 12:14 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick will not seek fourth term

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/10/2007 1:21 PM | Add Comment

EPC update on the Transitional Presbytery

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/30/2007 1:02 PM | Add Comment

Overturn on appeal of Redwoods vs. Spahr: Synod PJC decision

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/24/2007 12:43 PM | Add Comment

Breaking news: Synod PJC reversals acquittal on Spahr case

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/24/2007 9:40 AM | Add Comment

Comments on the Presbyterian Coalition Gathering

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/24/2007 8:09 AM | Add Comment

Appeal of Rev. Jane Spahr's PJC decision

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/20/2007 12:30 PM | Add Comment

State of the PCUSA: II -- Departure of churches from the PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/15/2007 12:55 PM | Add Comment

The state of the PCUSA: I -- Membership continues decline

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/13/2007 9:13 AM | Add Comment

GA PJC Decision: I stand corrected

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/14/2007 6:28 PM | Add Comment

The Three other PJC Decisions Just Reported

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/13/2007 5:39 PM | 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

Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/10/2007 7:04 AM | Add Comment

The passing of Helen Walton

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/22/2007 12:22 PM | Add Comment

News on PC(USA) Book of Order revisions

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

Call for PC(USA) Stated Clerk to not run for a fourth term

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/27/2007 1:55 PM | Add Comment

Recent passings: Dr. Isabel Rogers and Rev. Marguerite Bowden-Reed

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/27/2007 1:41 PM | Add Comment

Designated giving: It's not just for Presbyterians

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/27/2007 8:58 AM | Add Comment

More reaction to the New Wineskins Convocation

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/7/2007 1:35 PM | Add Comment

Witherspoon Society response to NPWL comments on women in leadership in EPC

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/7/2007 10:13 AM | Add Comment

PC(USA) News Service interview with Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/5/2007 1:27 PM | Add Comment

Complaint re-filed against Rev. Janet Edwards in Pittsburgh Presbytery

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/5/2007 8:58 AM | Add Comment

NWAC responds to the NPWL

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/1/2007 11:01 AM | Add Comment

The take on the PC(USA) to EPC transition from the Network of Presbyterian Women in Leadership

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/27/2007 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Santa Barbara Presbytery Action

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/23/2007 1:07 PM | Add Comment

Old PC(USA) news still circulating

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/22/2007 1:24 PM | Add Comment

Santa Barbara Presbytery Approves Document Calling for PC(USA) to Return to Jesus Christ

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/15/2007 3:26 PM | Add Comment

New Wineskins Winter Convocation - Blog entries

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/12/2007 11:01 AM | Add Comment

Joan Gray's visit to Dallas - Candor from the top

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/12/2007 10:26 AM | Add Comment

New Wineskins Winter Convocation - Day 2

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/12/2007 7:21 AM | Add Comment

More from the New Wineskins Convocation

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/9/2007 1:50 PM | Add Comment

PC(USA) News Service story about New Wineskins meeting now available on web site

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/9/2007 10:41 AM | Add Comment

New Wineskins Winter Convocation

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/9/2007 9:03 AM | Add Comment

Comments on "Presbyterians and Separatist Evangelicals: A Continuing Dilemma" by R. Milton Winter published in Perspectives

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/7/2007 9:48 PM | Add Comment

Separatist Evangelicals - Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/26/2007 8:42 AM | Add Comment

Separatist Evangelicals

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/25/2007 3:11 PM | 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

More from the PHEWA Conference

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/19/2007 1:13 PM | Add Comment

New Wineskins Strategy Report

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/18/2007 1:07 PM | Add Comment

Watching and waiting - Coming attractions

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/16/2007 1:33 PM | Add Comment

EPC preparing transition process for PC(USA) congregations that want to transfer

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/29/2006 7:35 PM | Add Comment

So where is the PC(USA) in the ordination standards debate?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/11/2006 1:14 PM | Add Comment

Pittsburgh Presbytery same-sex marriage case trying to be re-filed

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/11/2006 8:11 AM | Add Comment

New developments in Mission Presbytery over controversial church membership

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/8/2006 12:54 PM | Add Comment

Status of Major Gift to PC(USA) is Uncertain

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/2/2006 7:50 AM | Add Comment

Updated Resource from the Covenant Network on "Guidelines for Examination"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/30/2006 1:38 PM | Add Comment

New Constitutional Musing on "Responding Pastorally to Troubled Churches"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/29/2006 1:20 PM | Add Comment

Score one for the trust clause

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/29/2006 10:17 AM | Add Comment

New GAC Deputy Executive Director For Mission in the PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/20/2006 11:05 AM | Add Comment

Decision in the Pittsburgh Presbytery Same-sex marriage PJC case: Dismissed on technicality

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/15/2006 3:33 PM | Add Comment

Ordination standards - with a twist

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/7/2006 8:03 AM | Add Comment

Rewriting the PC(USA) Form of Government

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

Summary of three PC(USA) Decisions

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/24/2006 8:56 AM | Add Comment

PJC Decision: Colonial PC vs. Grace PC

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/23/2006 2:53 PM | Add Comment

Odds and Ends

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/20/2006 11:59 AM | Add Comment

News story - PC(USA) income down

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/19/2006 12:45 PM | Add Comment

Pittsburgh Presbytery approves constitutional ordination guidelines

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/13/2006 12:33 PM | Add Comment

Winning the battle but losing the war at the PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/11/2006 9:25 AM | Add Comment

Report of Administrative Commission on Riverside PC, Presbytery of Prospect Hill

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/10/2006 12:07 PM | Add Comment

Article: Finding my way back to church...and getting kicked out

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/28/2006 1:04 PM | Add Comment

Presbytery of San Diego Action

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/22/2006 7:23 AM | Add Comment

San Joaquin Presbytery meeting this Thursday

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/18/2006 1:08 PM | Add Comment

PJC Case in Pittsburgh Presbytery over same-sex marriage

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/18/2006 8:16 AM | Add Comment

Property Disputes - Today's news nothing more than a distraction

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/18/2006 7:31 PM | Add Comment

Presbytery response to congregation leaving PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/9/2006 9:00 AM | Add Comment

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