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Moderator issues Call to Church: The need to restore trust and reform the denomination is urgent

September 25, 2015PaulaRKincaid48 221st General Assembly Moderator Heath Rada, Call to the Church, PCUSA, Presbyterian Church (USA), Presbyterian Mission Agency Board

Though he’s not sure he actually had the authority to do so, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has issued a “Call to the Church” declaring that “trust has been lost in our denomination — and for anything significant to be accomplished we must find ways for that trust to be restored.” He called…

Presbyterians respond to PCUSA approval of same-sex marriage

March 19, 2015PaulaRKincaid27 221st General Assembly Moderator Heath Rada, Covenant Network of Presbyterians, Fellowship Community, More Light Presbyterians, Office of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (USA), Presbyterian Church in America, Presbyterian Lay Committee, Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons, Vice-Moderator Larissa Kwong Abazia

Responses to the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s decision to change the definition of marriage so that same-sex marriages may be conducted by PCUSA pastors and in PCUSA churches have been varied – from pain and tears that the denomination has departed from Scripture to jubilation that all can be married in the church. The 221st General…