“Joining and Receiving:” A Fading Footnote?
30 Years since the PCA and RPCES came together
“Humanly speaking, there is hardly a chance in the world. But I believe the merger will occur because God requires it.” --Ed Clowney
Can Baptists Be Reformed? Is this a contradiction in terms?
“Reformed” and “Baptist” don’t go together any more than Darryl and the Bayly.
Now I married a blond, green-eyed Baptist. This does not put me in the category of Hosea, but it does say that what I saw trumped theological differences. Moreover, I have had and have quite a few Baptist friends. (In the South one would be hard up for friends if he did not include Baptists.) I have also had Baptists preach in my pulpit a number of times
Two denominations primed to debate same-sex issues
Mainline Presbyterians and Episcopalians start meetings within the week facing similar challenges
The Episcopal Church {proposal] is… a "lifelong covenant." Clergy in dioceses with sympathetic bishops have been blessing gay couples for decades, but the proposal is to permit a trial run of an official liturgy.
Reformed Church in America strikes policy allowing ‘conscience’ objection to female ministers
Women make up only 17 percent of active ministers.
"In the long run however, I believe that we have more integrity as a denomination if we just say ‘we ordain women.' And if you can’t live within a system that ordains women, then there are a lot of denominations, and perhaps this isn’t the one for you."
Mohamed Morsi to pick woman and Christian as Egypt’s vice-presidents
New leader will make appointments once people chosen to fill the roles have been selected
The president-elect continues to deliberate with the military and other political forces over the formation of his cabinet, which is expected to be led by an independent national figure and would not have an FJP majority.
Critics Challenge NAE’s Abortion-Reduction Initiative’s Funding
Funding pro-contraception group draws criticism from World Magazine and Manhattan Declaration.
"Many of our churches and organizations either don't know what's happening or have chosen to keep silent about sex and abortions in the evangelical community," said [NAE President] Anderson. "Generation Forum was started to get the truth out [about sex and evangelicals]."
Is Most of Reformed Deformed?
The much-discussed and derided "new Calvinism" arose in the last several decades as a critique movement.
Why are so many of our churches small and dying? Why do we baptize so few new believers? Why don't we have more large churches welcoming thousands of new members? Why does so much of our supposed growth come from church transfers? More importantly, what's our solution?
EPC General Assembly re-drawing some presbytery boundaries around women’s ordination
Ordination of women to all offices is an essential "yes" in the PCUSA and ECO, and an essential "no" in the PCA; "non-essential" in the EPC.
Currently, two of the EPC presbyteries are majority complementarian, which means they do not ordain women to the office of teaching elder. And in Mid-America "a number of presbyters have expressed the view that churches with women ruling elders should not be received into the presbytery."
Peter Enns: Young Evangelicals Want to Rethink What it Means to Be Evangelical
But some "old guard" evangelicals make it difficult to have those conversations.
"Part of the problem with evangelicalism is that the power, money and the control is typically more with an older guard and you have to be careful," he said. "The harshest way of putting it," he added, is "when you care more about the system than the truth, it's the problem the Pharisees had in the Gospels, and you want to protect the system."
Thoughts on Attendance at the 2012 PCA General Assembly
This is one of the regular frustrations of GA
Given that there are 1,466 churches in the PCA, and 4,256 TEs, the theoretical attendance at GA this year was a minimum of 7,188. Actual attendance, however, was 797 TEs and 278 REs