The GA Junkie: Category Archive for ordination standards

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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 ordination standards

You Never Know Where A Story Will Take You -- Finding The Presbyterian Connections

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/3/2010 12:28 PM | Add Comment

The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland -- Review And Reform And Ministries

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/29/2010 3:52 PM | Add Comment

Approaching The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/20/2010 1:07 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

EPC Report Of The Interim Committee On Women Teaching Elders

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/18/2010 9:26 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) -- A Survey Of The Landscape

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/31/2010 5:55 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Upcoming 38th General Assembly Of The PCA -- Mid-February Update: Intro and Overtures 1-5

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/19/2010 8:30 PM | Add Comment

Some Brief Updates

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/24/2009 7:48 PM | Add Comment

Church Of Scotland Commission Of Assembly Meeting - Ordination Standards Debate And Manse Occupancy

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/18/2009 10:19 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Ordination Standards In The Evangelical Presbyterian Church -- The Current Discussion

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/9/2009 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Current News In The Ordination Standards Discussion In The Church Of Scotland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/6/2009 2:02 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Continuing Ordination Standards Discussion In The Presbyterian Church In America

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/5/2009 3:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Breaking News: PC(USA) GAPJC Decisions Published

Posted by Steve Salyards at 11/3/2009 2:50 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- The Build-up Begins

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/7/2009 7:18 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Sorting Out What The Actions Of The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland Mean

Posted by Steve Salyards at 9/4/2009 1:09 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Law And Gospel

Posted by Steve Salyards at 8/21/2009 8:00 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Developments In Scotland

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

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland -- Say What?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/26/2009 9:00 PM | 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 of the Church of Scotland -- Live Blogging The Lochcarron-Skye Overture Debate

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/25/2009 8:00 AM | Add Comment

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland -- Saturday Night Session

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/23/2009 10:45 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

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

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

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

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

Two Sign Posts On The Journey With Standards For Ordained Office: 2 - Church of Scotland and Aberdeen Presbytery

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/25/2009 9:15 PM | View Comments (3) | 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

A Word Of Hope From The Amendment 08-B Voting Trends

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/17/2009 7:41 PM | 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

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

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

Moderator Designate Of The Presbyterian Church In Ireland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/3/2009 10:24 AM | View Comments (3) | 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

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

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

Women Clergy Controversy Continues In Ireland

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

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

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 Continuing Saga of the Anglican Communion

Posted by Steve Salyards at 7/24/2008 12:55 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

The 36th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America -- Debate and decision on Deaconesses

Posted by Steve Salyards at 6/12/2008 1:31 PM | View Comments (3) | 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 PCA General Assembly -- Role of Women in Ministry

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/15/2008 12:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Upcoming PCA General Assembly -- Mid-April Update

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/16/2008 12:46 PM | Add Comment

Upcoming PCA General Assembly

Posted by Steve Salyards at 3/30/2008 5:05 PM | View Comments (4) | 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

Episcopal Church Update and their Polity Debate

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

Variations on a Theme

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/21/2008 1:13 PM | 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) GAPJC Decisions -- Walking a Center Line?

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/12/2008 4:28 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

PCA Overture about Diaconal Ministry and the Participation of Women

Posted by Steve Salyards at 1/30/2008 3:14 PM | 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

San Francisco Presbytery Approves a Non-essential Departure

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

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

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

Controversy over Women Ministers in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/29/2007 8:03 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

Episcopal Diocese to Realign and Church Property in California

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

GAPCJ Decision: Stewart vs. Mission Presbytery - Ordination Standards probably apply to candidates

Posted by Steve Salyards at 5/13/2007 5:48 AM | Add Comment

American Episcopal Bishops Decline to Participate in the World Anglican Communion's Proposed Solution

Posted by Steve Salyards at 4/1/2007 2:06 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

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

Want a distraction from Presbyterians? Try the Anglicans.

Posted by Steve Salyards at 2/16/2007 7:04 AM | View Comments (2) | 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

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

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

First "middle governing body" begins withdrawl process in American Episcopal Church

Posted by Steve Salyards at 12/5/2006 8:44 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

Ordination standards - with a twist

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

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