The Presbyterian News Service. View Larissa Kwong Abazia, Vice Moderator of the 221st General Assembly (2014) of the Presbyterian Church (USA), as she discusses the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly churchwide conversation. Go to www.pcusa.org/identity by December 18 to join the conversation. View the transcript here.
By Steve Salyards, The GA Junkie. About a month ago the Moderator of the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Heath Rada, issued a “Call to the Church” to rethink what the PCUSA should look like and in doing so build trust within the church. This started the wheels in motion for a…
The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) has invited members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) into a church-wide conversation on the identity and purpose of the denomination, and plans to share that information with the 222 General Assembly (2016) in June so it can “collectively discern God’s call for the church.” In…
On March 17, the deciding vote was cast. Palisades Presbytery was the 86th presbytery – a clear majority of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s 171 presbyteries – to vote in favor of changing the denomination’s definition of marriage to allow same-sex marriages. The vote officially changed the definition of marriage found in the PCUSA’s constitution from being…
By Steve Salyards As we hit the one-month mark before the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) this is a good time to profile the three individuals that the candidates standing for Moderator have asked to join them on this journey. At the onset we can make one very sweeping generalization and say…