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Seeking a More Balanced Perspective: A Response to Ann Hall’s Review of Alongside Care

Marissa Henley
Sep 11, 2024
When I was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2010, our church family came alongside us and cared for us through several months of treatment. That experience made me passionate about how the body of Christ bears one another’s burdens and cares for the suffering. Our PCA church is seeking to do this...

A Directory of Worship for the PCA?

Terry L. Johnson
Aug 5, 2024
A Directory of Worship for the PCA? The PCA’s “Directory for Public Worship” ( DPW ) has been in constitutional limbo since its adoption at the Third General Assembly in 1976. Book of Church Order 56-58 have full constitutional authority (sacraments and membership), while Book of Church Order 47-55...
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PCA General Assembly: A Positive Note

Mortification of Spin
Aug 4, 2021
Believe it or not, our hosts can be positive every once in a while. This week, they sit down to chat about the encouraging outcomes of this year’s PCA General Assembly. What happened at the GA that is giving Todd such encouragement about the future of the denomination? (It’s been well-documented...
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PCA Report on Sexuality

Mortification of Spin
Jul 8, 2020
Todd and Carl’s guest today is Kevin DeYoung. He’s the pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC, assistant professor of systematic theology at the Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte campus, and author/contributor for numerous outstanding books. Kevin joins us today for the first time...
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The PCA Must Reject God-less Ideologies

Todd Pruitt
Mar 4, 2020
At the risk of being labeled a dreaded "Reformed Fundamentalist" I offer this call for the PCA to reject God-less ideologies such as Critical Theory, Intersectionality and their religious cousin Liberation Theology. I'm honestly shocked that this even has to be said. I spent a rather significant...

The Westminster Statement on Biblical Sexuality

Jeffrey Windt
Jul 8, 2019
Ray Ortlund , one of the original signers of the Nashville Statement, in his book Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel , wrote poignantly on the gospel implications of taking a public stand on sexual issues in a culture such as ours: "Everyone who reveres the gospel has compelling reasons to...

An Evangelistic Time to Stand

Lamont English
Jul 6, 2019
A square circle. A married bachelor. An African-American millennial PCA pastoral intern who believes in biblical social justice and agreed with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) commending the Nashville Statement as a biblically faithful document. I not only agreed with it but I signed it...

Four Cheers for PCA Approval of the Nashville Statement

Richard D. Phillips
Jul 1, 2019
There have not been many times over the last twenty years in the PCA General Assembly when I had no idea how a crucial vote was going to turn out. Late last Thursday night (or was it Friday morning?), the GA's vote on the Nashville Statement was one of them. The Nashville Statement was produced by...

Co-Laborers, Co-Heirs

Eowyn Stoddard
Jun 20, 2019
Review of Co-Laborers, Co-Heirs A Family Conversation Edited by Brittany Smith and Doug Serven White Blackbird Books, 2019 301 pp. Occasionally, a family calls a council at which members express critiques of family interactions, rules and priorities. In my family, the meeting often revolves around...

Co-Laborers, Co-Heirs

Eowyn Stoddard
Jun 20, 2019
Review of Co-Laborers, Co-Heirs A Family Conversation Edited by Brittany Smith and Doug Serven White Blackbird Books, 2019 301 pp. Occasionally, a family calls a council at which members express critiques of family interactions, rules and priorities. In my family, the meeting often revolves around...