The GA Junkie: Category Archive for commentary

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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For more on what a General Assembly is see my ongoing series of articles GA 101
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  Wednesday, August 13, 2008
7. PC Ireland Church Technology Camp Follow-up
  Sunday, August 10, 2008
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The GA Junkie: Category Archive for commentary

The Church -- Integrated Not Institutional?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/15/2008 12:55 PM | View Comments (3) | 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

Reflections On The Church Virtual #1

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/17/2008 2:25 PM | View Comments (13) | Add Comment

Collecting Confessions in the PC(USA)

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

Friday morning in San Jose

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

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 Future of the Mainline Church -- An Update

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

Evangelicals and Evangelism

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/6/2008 12:12 PM | 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

Happy Feast of Saint Patrick Today

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/15/2008 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Sin Is Not Just Present, It Is Pervasive

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/11/2008 10:58 AM | Add Comment

The Future of the Mainline Church

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

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

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

Committed Christians "Dissatisfied" with the Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/2/2008 8:56 PM | Add Comment

I Might Need to Declare a Departure

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/31/2008 1:48 PM | View Comments (3) | 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

Are We Presbyterians Really All That Joyless?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/21/2008 8:24 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

The Christmas Story: Reading it with New Eyes

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/26/2007 8:13 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

Discernment of the Call to Ordained Office

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/22/2007 12:15 AM | Add Comment

PUP Report and Ordination Standards: Nothing has changed?

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

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

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

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

Religion Commentary on CNN web site

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/7/2007 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Baptismal Standards -- or -- The advantages of celebrity?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/31/2007 8:44 AM | Add Comment

"If you care, you understand."

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/16/2007 9:59 PM | 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

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

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

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

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

What is an Evangelical?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/23/2007 6:24 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

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

Louisiana Presbytery of the PCA Re-examines Rev. Steve Wilkins regarding his Federal Vision Theology

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/16/2006 4:46 AM | View Comments (2) | 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

Ordination Standards: Conservative Jewish Council goes for "local option"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/7/2006 1:57 PM | Add Comment

Another blogger's comments on PCA leadership

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/5/2006 3:13 PM | 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

Ordination standards - with a twist

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

Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/31/2006 8:12 AM | Add Comment

High Profile Church of Scotland GA Moderator

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/16/2006 10:17 AM | 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

As if Presbyterians don't have enough to worry about

Posted by Steve Salyards at 10/8/2006 8:18 AM | 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

GA of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/27/2006 12:37 PM | Add Comment

Layman Online article on "PCUSA dispatches teams..."

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/19/2006 7:51 AM | Add Comment

"Understanding the History of Mainline Decline" - PC(USA) Analysis

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/13/2006 10:46 AM | Add Comment

The disconnect between the PC(USA) leadership and the people in the pews

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/4/2006 1:43 PM | Add Comment

Finally! Ordination Standards

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/31/2006 6:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

"Essentials"

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/20/2006 2:38 PM | 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

PC(USA) Legal Papers on Property

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/17/2006 12:12 PM | Add Comment

Will this be the PC(USA) constitutional crisis?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/9/2006 5:42 PM | Add Comment

Presbytery response to congregation leaving PC(USA)

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

GA of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/3/2006 12:09 PM | Add Comment

GA of the Presbyterian Church in Canada

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/2/2006 8:38 AM | Add Comment

GA of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/1/2006 12:26 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/31/2006 2:55 PM | Add Comment

Thirty-fourth GA of the Presbyterian Church in America

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/23/2006 2:07 PM | Add Comment

GA Cartoon

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/28/2006 4:06 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

My handout summary of Actions from the PC(USA) 217th GA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/24/2006 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Assembly debate

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/20/2006 1:53 PM | Add Comment

The afternoon session has begun

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/20/2006 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Bell weather?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/19/2006 11:40 AM | Add Comment

Laptops at microphones

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/19/2006 10:04 AM | Add Comment

GA PC(USA)

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/19/2006 9:41 AM | Add Comment

PC(USA) GA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/18/2006 6:46 AM | Add Comment

Comments on the Church of Scotland GA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/26/2006 8:41 PM | Add Comment

Conclusion of Church of Scotland GA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/26/2006 7:55 PM | Add Comment

Voting

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/23/2006 11:07 AM | Add Comment

Debate wrapup and vote

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/23/2006 9:20 AM | Add Comment

Debate and barrier act

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/23/2006 9:19 AM | Add Comment

Debate

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/23/2006 9:05 AM | Add Comment

Counter motion

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/23/2006 8:52 AM | Add Comment

Heated debate and questioning

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/23/2006 8:48 AM | Add Comment

Short comments

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/22/2006 10:51 AM | Add Comment

Current debate in GA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/22/2006 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Interesting quote

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/21/2006 5:54 AM | Add Comment

Quiet day for Church of Scotland GA

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/21/2006 5:37 AM | Add Comment

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