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PC(USA) overture on monogamy deemed out of order, referred for further study

1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (921+ words) The Presbyterian Church (U. S. A.) 227th General Assembly Constitutional Interpretation Committee voted yesterday 45-12 in favor of a recommendation to forward the context and concerns of CON-10 to the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) for inclusion on the recommended formation of GEN…...

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Who ordains ruling elders " and why is the PC(USA) revisiting it now?

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (627+ words) In presbyteries across the Presbyterian Church (U. S. A.), a longstanding but often overlooked polity question is resurfacing: Who should ordain deacons and ruling elders? What may sound procedural is actually theological and structural. At stake is where authority for leadership resides " in…...

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Love Letters to God

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (369+ words) By Devon Spencer and Katherine Willis Pershey" Cascade Books, 196 pages Published July 29, 2025 I" love E. B. White's collected correspondence with fellow writer Edmund Ware Smith about "chickens, gin, and a Maine friendship." Studies support my personal experience that heterosexual, cisgender men often…...

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