by Brian Ellison | Feb 5, 2013 | Marriage & Civil Unions, PC(USA) History & Polity
~ by Tricia Dykers Koenig Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, the District of Columbia, New York, Washington, Maine, Maryland. According to the Human Rights Campaign, over 15% of Americans currently live in jurisdictions with marriage equality. ...
by Brian Ellison | Oct 31, 2012 | Amendment 10-A, Covenant Network News, Marriage & Civil Unions, Ordination Process, PC(USA) History & Polity
The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission has issued rulings in several significant cases. 221-02 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) through Presbytery of Newark v. Laurie McNeill Most of the PC(USA) judicial cases involving marriage have addressed ministers...
by Brian Ellison | Sep 21, 2012 | PC(USA) History & Polity
Can a PC(USA) presbytery form a “union” with a “presbytery” that has been set up by a group that is not recognized as a denomination, and that has no existing congregations, ministers, seminaries, or programs? Why would a presbytery want to do that? At least part of...
by Brian Ellison | May 16, 2012 | Featured Advocating, Featured Categories, Marriage & Civil Unions, PC(USA) History & Polity
On February 20, 2012, a deeply-divided GAPJC affirmed the rebuke of the Rev. Dr. Jane Adams Spahr for having performed marriages for same-gender couples. In its first meeting since that decision was handed down, the Presbytery of the Redwoods, as ordered, heard the...
by Brian Ellison | May 2, 2012 | Ordination Process, PC(USA) History & Polity
The Board of Covenant Network is deeply gratified that the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission today upheld the decision of the Presbytery of San Francisco to ordain Lisa Larges as a Teaching Elder in the church. This decision brings to a final conclusion...
by Brian Ellison | Apr 11, 2012 | Ordination Process, PC(USA) History & Polity
Few servants of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have experienced such a long and winding road to ordination as Lisa Larges. On April 27, the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission will hear arguments in yet another proceeding arising from objections to the...
by Brian Ellison | Aug 3, 2011 | Amendment 10-A, Ordination Process, PC(USA) History & Polity
STATEMENT FROM THE CO-MODERATORS of the COVENANT NETWORK OF PRESBYTERIANS We would like to express gratitude for the hopeful step forward taken in two recent rulings from the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission, following hearings on July 29 in Louisville....
by Brian Ellison | Nov 5, 2009 | Ordination Process, PC(USA) History & Polity
In two important decisions from the General Assembly’s Permanent Judicial Commission, the church’s highest court has upheld the right of presbyteries to consider “departures” declared by candidates for ordination or for entry into presbyteries. In Naegeli et al. vs....