Despite being troubled by surging liberalism within the PCUS, Smartt said he resolved “not to break fellowship with any of my liberal brothers.”

“She was always improving my ministry at almost every stop we made,” says PCA founder Kennedy Smartt about his late wife. “She could correct me and do it in such a way that it was like a doctor giving me a painkiller.”

Letter urges leaders to welcome differences of opinion and discourse on various issues, while affirming “the need for our leadership to always be searching for the center so that unity might be maintained and our mission might be accomplished.”