Like all good dads, like all good husbands, Joseph put his family first. He sacrificed for them in big and small ways.

The resolution will be discussed and debated at next year’s Assembly in Mobile, Alabama.

Committee cited Westminster Presbytery with an exception of substance.

On June 11, the 43rd General Assembly of the PCA considered and ruled on six overtures. All were answered in the negative.

The action to refer the overture to the 44th General Assembly stayed the same, but the vote changed to 80-0-0.

On June 10, two minority reports replaced the recommendations made by the Review of Presbytery Records Committee (RPR) and were approved by the 43rd General Assembly.

Due to the gravity and complexity of the issues involved, the Committee believes that a more perfected version of the resolution would better serve the Assembly.

Be it therefore resolved, that the 43rd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America does recognize and confess our church’s covenantal and generational involvement in and complicity with racial injustice inside and outside of our churches during the Civil Rights period.

“I think Jim Wert needs a T-shirt that reads, ‘I’m Esther’s little brother. For such a time as this,’” quipped Joe Novenson.

Sent back to presbytery for revision.