From the monthly archives:
Last week the PCUSA was in Birmingham, Alabama for the big General Assembly conference. At issue were a couple of key votes among the many issues they were discussing. First, there is the whole issue about upholding the chastity and purity clauses for ordination.
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If you read Rob Bell or Donald Miller you might be interested in reading Brent Thomas’ post, You Can’t Not Have Doctrine, where he compares both of these writers and their books and how they are alike. I very much like both Miller and Bell and have read pretty much everything they have written. Blue [...]
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When it comes to Presbyterian Churches USA, I attend a very unique one. Unique in that it is growing. Unique in that most people who attend our church rarely know we are Presbyterian Church USA. These statements may get me in trouble, but that is the reality. If you were to attend our 9am Traditional [...]
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Benjamin Myers as always has great posts. Here is another great posting on Karl Barth, where he discusses Barth and universalism
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Religious culture has a hard time with pastors and pastor’s families who have flaws. Of course, the healthiest congregations do not expect their pastors to walk on water, do not put their pastors on pedestals. But in my experience, such congregations are not the norm. Thousands of pastors serve congregations that, despite rhetoric to the [...]
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Please go over to the blog of Ben Myers and check out his series, “For the love of God: 20 Theologians and why we love them.” It is a great series and I am learning a lot about some great theologians.
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