Chick-fil-A: My take

Chick-fil-A: My take

Comment from National Organizer Tricia Dykers Koenig: My family knows that Chick-fil-A is my favorite fast food: standard sandwich, cole slaw (they can keep the waffle fries). I was delighted once, having gotten lost somewhere in the vicinity of the Atlanta airport,...

What Now?

By Barbara G. Wheeler This essay was published in the Spring 2012 issue of Insights: The Faculty Journal of Austin Seminary.  Posted by permission.  You will want to read the whole issue, “The Church Faces Schism.”   Last year, the Presbyterian Church...

Hope for the PCUSA: Join the Conversation

At the beginning of the new year, General Assembly Moderator Cindy Bolbach and Vice-Moderator Landon Whitsitt hosted six other ruling and teaching elders for a conversation about their hopes for the Presbyterian Church (USA). Please find their letter to the church and...

Reforming the Ties that Bind

Reforming the Ties that Bind: Theological Virtues for Living Together in Difference Plenary Address from the 2011 Conference, Excerpted and Edited,  by James Calvin Davis, Middlebury College Several years ago in our denomination, a task force was charged with thinking...
2011 Covenant Conference!

2011 Covenant Conference!

November 3-5, 2011 First Presbyterian Church, Durham, NC Speakers include: Scott Anderson, Executive Director, Wisconsin Council of Churches James C. Davis, Professor of Religion, Middlebury College, author of In Defense of Civility, WJKP, 2010 Frances Taylor Gench,...

What could bring a person to change his or her mind about sexuality and ordination? What happened in your case?

– Jack Rogers … I had often said that I could not change my position on homosexuality unless I was convinced by Scripture. By studying the Bible in its historical and cultural context and through the lens of Jesus’ redeeming life and ministry, I have now...