Gradye Parsons says ‘It’s been a privilege for me to serve’
By Gregg Brekke, The Presbyterian News Service. The Rev. Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly, announced Tuesday that he would not stand for election to a third four-year term as the highest elected officer of the church. Parsons, ordained 36 years ago as a Presbyterian teaching elder, says his first…