PCA Conversations

by Clay Holland
Today–everyday, for that matter–we live in the midst of several competing stories, each of which are vying for supremacy.  You may live with uncertainty about what the stories are.  You may live confused about which story to believe.  You may live fully convinced that you are believing the right story – but maybe [...]

by Greg Thompson
[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2]
This brings me to the final animating conviction, and it is this: one of the most urgent civic tasks before the church is the recovery of civic love.
That is to say, even more important than our positions on public policy, or our decisions for political candidates, is [...]

by Walter Henegar
Before the Civil War, a typical US Citizen might have identified himself as, say, a Virginian first and an American second. Living in Atlanta is like that: I am a Westsider first and an Atlantan second. The Westside is the part I really know, where I live, at 9 or 10 o’clock on [...]

by Greg Thompson
[...continued from Part 1]
The second conviction has to do with the current poverty of our civic presence.
What I mean by this is that in spite of the richness of our civic and political vision we in the American church are quite far from its embodiment. There are a number of reasons for this [...]

[Editors: One house-keeping note before we get started. In response to feedback from our readers we are going to reduce our posts to 2-per-week for the time being. Hopefully this will give everyone more time to read and ponder the posts we do put up, and possibly increase the opportunity for conversation in the comments [...]

by Greg Thompson
It’s a sort of truism that if you are looking for conflict, there are few ways more certain to provide it than talking about religion or about politics.  And more than that, to talk about them together is akin to a sort of social kamikaze—a reckless and self-destructive endeavor that can only end [...]

Bainbridge Island is a thirty-minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle. It has a rich history of lumber mills, military bases, strawberry farms and summer cottages. During WWII Bainbridge had the dual fame/infamy of being the place where the Japanese code was broken and also the place where hundreds were shipped to internment camps. David Guterson [...]