{"id":1800,"date":"2015-07-09T15:17:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T22:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2015-07-14T08:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:33:05","slug":"musings-on-how-big-is-the-pcusa-big-tent-part-1-herding-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Musings On How Big Is The PC(USA) Big Tent – Part 1: Herding Cats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I got this research idea over lunch today: I have been considering ways to quantify how big the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)<\/a> tent really is and I thought that maybe Twitter accounts might be one metric. I am not sure how well this actually does what I want but it was an interesting experiment and so I thought I would share it as a musing.<\/p>\n

The idea started when I was thinking about the articles I write as previews for various general assemblies and including the official social media links in the article. There is usually an official Twitter account for the denomination, maybe one for the GA itself, sometimes a news account, a couple of official individuals and typically a ministry agency or two. Check out the Presbyterian Church in Ireland post<\/a> if you want a good example and one I consider typical.<\/p>\n

But thinking about the PC(USA) I knew that it had a bunch more accounts so I started compiling a list. Here is the list of what I found in about an hour of searching. I was surprised at how many different official Twitter accounts the PC(USA) has. Besides the general official one (@Presbyterian<\/a>) I found the following 37 (in no particular order):<\/p>\n