According to the Bible, Christians are called to stone divorced people to death. At least, this is what the Moderator of the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) believes and has said at least three times in presentations to churches in the denomination. In his Jan. 4 sermon at Montreat Presbyterian Church in Montreat, N.C.,…
After several churches have negotiated their way out of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in the Presbytery of the James, some are questioning the sudden hard-line approach taken by the presbytery in its negotiations with Crestwood Presbyterian Church. The presbytery has put a price tag of $3.5 million for the church, with campuses in Midlothian and…
By Greg Garrison, AL.com The Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley, a central Alabama group of churches affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), voted 75-39 Thursday in favor of approving gay marriages. They became one of about 38 presbyteries nationwide that have voted in favor of gay marriage, with 14 voting against. [Current vote total is…
Press release from the Board of Pensions The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the agency that administers benefits and assistance for PCUSA workers, is pleased to announce that its president, Frank C. Spencer, will be ordained as a minister by the Presbytery of Charlotte, North Carolina, on February 7, 2015. The presbytery…
By Kathy Melvin, Presbyterian News Service Gwen and John Haspels, second-generation mission co-workers who spent more than 40 years planting churches and doing community development work in remote areas of Africa, have safely returned home to Halstead, Kan., to continue medical treatment and recuperation. They were injured October 1, 2014, when their car was attacked…
BRIEF TIMELINE OF THEOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE PCUSA 1910-2015 1910 – Essential and Necessary Doctrines Defined; tension between fundamentalists and modernists 1924 – Auburn Affirmation – modernist response 1927 – Ordination is no longer based on national standards but presbytery local option 1936 – Orthodox Presbyterian Church founded under leadership of J. Gresham Machen 1965…
Dear Friends, By now word has spread far and wide about my having been removed from ordained office by the Permanent Judicial Commission of Grace Presbytery acting in behalf of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). I was found guilty on eight charges with respect to my leadership as Moderator of the Session and congregational meetings during the time Highland Park…
First delivered by Joe Rightmyer before the PJC of Grace Presbytery on January 6, 2015, in a more abbreviated form. This expanded version is dated February, 2015, following requests for the content of his message. There is much to be commended in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). There are many faithful churches and pastors committed to…
God, who created the human race, made them male and female, so that every man might be satisfied with his own wife, and might not desire more. For he insists on the number two, as the prophet Malachi, (ii. 15,) when he remonstrates against polygamy, employs the same arguments, that God, whose Spirit was so…
The Rev. John Buchanan, a former moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the editor and publisher of Christian Century has said in an interview that the decline of Protestant denominations does not suggest that they are doing something wrong, but that the church is going through a major shift. ““I think we’re in the…