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Your Pastor Needs Pastor Friends
By Walter Henegar
Before I became a pastor, I could not say I was estranged from a single soul. Almost 20 years in, the list is longer than I would have ever thought bearable. It includes some of my most intimate former friends and ministry partners: people whose names are etched on major milestones in my life, and…
Twelve Proposed BCO Changes Sent to Presbyteries
By Larry Hoop
The PCA Constitution consists of the Westminster Standards, which set forth the denomination’s theology, and the Book of Church Order (BCO), which concerns the details of its polity. Though a procedure to amend the Standards exists, the PCA has never approved any changes to them. By contrast, the BCO has been amended frequently. The year,…
Rejecting the Ways of the Sluggard
By John Pennylegion
Let us work when it’s time to work, rest when it’s time to rest, and make the most of every opportunity. In June 2022, the national unemployment rate was just 3.6%. But that figure, encouraging as it sounds, doesn’t tell the whole employment story. Nor does it mean the effects of the “Great Resignation” have…
Giving Rural Ministry a Closer Look
By Megan Fowler
Before moving to Grove City, Pennsylvania, in 2016, Seulgi Byun was a bona fide cosmopolitan. The cities he has called home include London, Boston, Tokyo, Seoul, Melbourne, and Singapore. Grove City, on the other hand, sits 50 miles from the closest city and has a population of roughly 7,800. As Byun, an associate professor of…
The Right Response to Tribalism
By Paul Miller
Tribalism turns a tribe into a center of worship.
When Work Is the Way We Love God, Creation, and Neighbor
By Richard Doster
The goal of the book is to see a critical mass of Christians who are influencing church culture from within while impacting their workplaces and communities through the vocation, gifts, and talents God has given them.
A summary of the Assembly actions of Wednesday, June 22.
Eleven Final Overtures Submitted to 49th GA
By Larry Hoop
A summary of the final overtures headed to the 49th General Assembly.
Toward a Truer, Purer Union in the PCA
By Scott Sauls
Resist the urge to negatively label or caricature those in the PCA who see and minister differently than you do.
A Killing Contagion on Campus
By Susan Fikse
The problem is not that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who are willing to contemplate horrific acts. It’s that young men no longer need to be deeply disturbed to contemplate horrific acts.