“Chapell’s reputation and experience as a reconciler, peacemaker, and healer will serve the General Assembly well.”

The purpose of YXL is to equip students to develop as servant leaders according to their unique design.

Teaching elder Christian Keidel doesn’t want the GA to revert to the old system; he wants presbyteries to adopt the newer one.

Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, attorney and founder of Telios Law PLLC, will present on the topic “Child Abuse: Legal and Scriptural Considerations for Policies, Prevention, Investigation, Discipline, and Healing.”

Tim Keller says Christianity needs make emotional sense before it can make rational sense.

The Bible reserves ordained church leadership for men, and yet many women in the church are gifted leaders. As a denomination, the PCA must wrestle with and harmonize these two realities.

The Bible never points to our desires as an identity. What the Bible does say is that our attractions are often aspects of our humanity that need to be redeemed by Christ.

“My senior pastor proposed to me! We were sitting at a barbecue joint, and he said, ‘This is going to sound weird, but Erik, will you marry me?’ — meaning, will you be of one mind with me and we will fight together?”

GA Seminar: Why the diversity conversation needs to happen now

While there might not be full healing this side of heaven, churches can offer transgendered men and women a place where they are not projects to be fixed, but people whose stories —  and bodies — matter.