{"id":866,"date":"2008-02-14T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2008-02-14T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T04:38:00","slug":"pcusa-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"PC(USA) Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been busy the last couple of days for me, and there is no way I&#8217;m getting away with writing a long entry at home this evening, so here are a couple of highlights from the Presbyterian News Service, with quick comments done on my lunch hour.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">General Assembly Highlights<\/span>:&nbsp; The Presbyterian News Service has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2008\/08118.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> article<\/a> today about the preliminary list of issues facing the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).&nbsp; The list includes some of the widely anticipated items:&nbsp; Form of Government Task Force, a wide array of actions related to the PUP report, justice and peacemaking issues, and the moderator and stated clerk elections.&nbsp; (I found it interesting that on a top 10 list these were listed together.)&nbsp; Other items that may not be on observers&#8217; radars yet:&nbsp; Action on &#8220;a wide variety of ecumenical concerns,&#8221; starting the process to add the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/theologyandworship\/confession\/belhar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Belhar Confession<\/a> to the Book of Confessions, an evaluation and possible modifications to the ordination exams, and two committees of commissioners working on &#8220;A church for future generations.&#8221;&nbsp; Interestingly, no mention of the Heidelberg Catechism overture and a lot is getting lumped in the justice and peacemaking issues.&nbsp; If you want another perspective on this list by James Berkley you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theird.org\/NETCOMMUNITY\/Page.aspx?pid=554&amp;srcid=554\" target=\"_blank\"> his discussion<\/a> of Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick&#8217;s comments to ACSWP on the Institute on Religion and Democracy web site.&nbsp; While the News Service article is about Rev. Kirkpatrick&#8217;s comments to the joint meeting of the General Assembly Council Executive Committee and the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly, much of the same territory was covered.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New General Assembly Council Officers<\/span>:&nbsp; Congratulations to Elder Carol J. Adcock and Elder Michael W. Kruse who, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2008\/08119.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> announcement<\/a>, were unanimously elected the new Chair and Vice-chair of General Assembly Council.&nbsp; This appears to be the same Michael Kruse who writes the blog the <a href=\"http:\/\/krusekronicle.typepad.com\/kruse_kronicle\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Kruse Kronicle<\/a>. He even <a href=\"http:\/\/krusekronicle.typepad.com\/kruse_kronicle\/2008\/02\/im-at-gac-today.html\" target=\"_blank\"> admitted to being at GAC<\/a>.&nbsp; (This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.reyes-chow.com\/2008\/02\/blogger-lounge.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Blogger Lounge<\/a> at GA may have the problem that more bloggers are on the floor than in the lounge.) I am heartened to see the election of elders since I was a little bummed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2008\/08098.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> to see that<\/a> the outgoing chair of ACSWP and both the new co-chairs were clergy.&nbsp; It is admittedly the statistics of small numbers and we trust that across the board and over time the leadership evens out to an equitable balance of elder and clergy.<\/p>\n<p>Well that is it for today.&nbsp; May you all have a good <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Valentine\" target=\"_blank\"> Feast of Saint Valentine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been busy the last couple of days for me, and there is no way I&#8217;m getting away with writing a long entry at home this evening, so here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-pcusa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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