When Sam Duncan was nominated to serve as an assistant parliamentarian of the 28th General Assembly (GA), he was completely surprised.

Each year, the PCA General Assembly elects its moderator, who serves until his successor is elected at the following Assembly. This means that the moderator has virtually no time to prepare for the often intricate questions of constitutional interpretation and procedure that he’s required to make. Georgia Foothills Presbytery has proposed to modify this procedure…

The overtures, though similar, differ slightly in their details.

When a presbytery sends an overture to the General Assembly (GA), the stated clerk is responsible for referring that overture to the appropriate committee for its consideration. Any overture relating to a particular permanent committee or agency, or to an ad-interim committee, is to be referred to that committee which then recommends how the GA…

Under the current rule, an officer can be nominated on the floor of the GA and elected to serve on a permanent committee even if he did not seek or receive nomination from his own presbytery.

The overture from Platte Valley Presbytery seeks to clarify how appeals and complaints must be filed to the higher court and when the “countdown” for filing begins.

In this installment of PCA Voices, Mark Dalbey, president of Covenant Theological Seminary, explores biblical hospitality: What is it? And what does it look like — especially among PCA ruling and teaching elders?

Central Indiana Presbytery proposes allowing a session to present a request for the dissolution of an assistant pastor’s call directly to the presbytery.

While expressing appreciation for other faithful independent seminaries, he said the seminary highly values its unique official connection with the denomination.

The rationale for the overture cites what it calls a “severe crisis” in the ratio of REs to teaching elders (TEs) in GA attendance.