PCA Conversations

by Joel Garver
As we saw in the last post, we can recognize in the Emmaus story the pattern of historic Christian worship as it began to take shape. It resonates over and over again with the shape of the biblical story, with the actions of our Triune God in the events of salvation history. We [...]

by Joel Garver
Think of the disciples on the road to Emmaus…When they found themselves troubled and confused, Jesus met them along the way. When they confessed their troubles and doubts to him, his words and presence began to change them. He unfolded God’s word to them, pointing to his own person and work.  He dined [...]

by Jamison Galt
[Editors' note: One of the things we'd like to do on this forum is to regularly feature posts that attempt to apply aspects of our Reformed theology and practice to mission in our modern world; posts that do more than reference tradition or polemicize against other Christian practices. Here's one person's stab at [...]

In this post we interview the final Denominational Renewal speaker we’ve yet to hear from here on PCA Conversations. Bill Boyd gave a lecture in St. Louis entitled “Renewing Worship: Moving from the Lecture Hall to the Banquet Hall.”  In this, our third podcast, we talk to Bill about real and perceived trends in worship [...]

Greetings from Marin County, California, birthplace of the mountain bike, American Buddhism, and the free-range, grass-fed vegetable. We’re the county just over the Golden Gate Bridge, sandwiched between San Francisco to the south and Sonoma and Napa counties to the north. The Pacific is our western border.
Anyone who has ever traveled to Bay Area wine [...]

by Sam Wheatley
We’ve been discussing the biblical foundation and missional need for a theology of place. One theological and practical response is to recover the idea of parish as part of a local church’s philosophy of ministry. What follows is an interaction with a few recent publications that provide new models and resources for parish [...]

When PCA Conversations began we asked the five speakers from last year’s Denominational Renewal conference to each contribute one post that related generally to their assigned topic from that conference. So far you’ve read Jeff White on Mission, Jeremy Jones on Theology, and heard Matt Brown on the topic of Ecclesiology. Today we present Greg [...]

Chicago is a great city; heartbreakingly great.  Chicagoans have smiled lately (with the usual midwestern reserve) at the way the rest of the world has only lately noticed Chicago again because one of our sons has been elected to the Office of the President.  Even Gotham has taken notice.  A recent article in the New [...]

This post will be the last in our conversation on parish ministry, at least for now. We will follow up soon, however, with a related post sharing resources and new ministry paradigms for parish ministry. To catch up on the prior discussion, read the following: Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. The final word in [...]

by Paul Hahn
As another calendar year draws to a close, a new church year is just beginning. The church year is a system that began to be established by bits and pieces in the early centuries after Christ’s death and resurrection, allowing the church to mark time in a redemptive way. The church year keeps [...]