PCA Conversations

You can click here for a description of the main event from Thursday at the General Assembly.
We want to know your reaction. How did you feel about the defeat of the minority report? What do you think it means for the PCA? (Please remember our guidelines for charitable speech on this forum.) If you were [...]

by Josh Eby
All Christians desire to become more like Jesus.  All Christians long for our world to become more like heaven.  And all Christians struggle to figure out how to live out their faith in the midst of a changing and complex world.
On the one hand, we make the mistake of identifying Christianity with our [...]

by David Cassidy
The Apostle Paul did not go around the Roman Empire cursing Caesar, but rather urging prayer for the man. However, he was also preaching the Gospel of God, a message that threatened and eventually undermined the foundations of Roman power. To confess Jesus Christ as Lord was certainly to deny Caesar the same [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]