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White Water Ahead—What Is Stirring Up the Waters

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The present controversies in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) [hereafter and forever referred to as PCUSA] have developed along a continuum for decades, starting with the Fundamentalist/Modernist debates of the 1920s. At the time, the church decided not to require ministers (teaching elders) to subscribe to the five fundamentals (you know: the bodily resurrection of Jesus, the virgin birth, miracles, etc). It was an unfortunate adjustment 1° off of True North. The long-term significance of this change of course went unrecognized during a time of fairly homogeneous agreement about the essential tenets of the Reformed Faith. However, as Presbyterian history has […]

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Did God really say . . .?

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General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church (U. S. A.) Appeal Hearing in the Matter of Parnell et al v. Presbytery of San Francisco July 29, 2011 Opening Presentation by Counsel for the Complainants/Appellants, the Rev. Mary Holder Naegeli Moderator and Commissioners, thank you for hearing our appeal. As I was preparing to come to Louisville this week, I was harvesting the last of our peaches and apricots in my back yard garden. Reflecting in that setting on what I might say to you today, I realized that the concerns being address here all started in another garden,

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