Posts from the Blog of an (un)Tamed Cynic
For over a year I have been floating the idea of a conference on progressive youth ministry, and I’m pleased to say that this idea is finally coming together. I’ve been working with Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt (JoPa Productions) on a conference that we’ll host at Fourth Presbyterian Church in the spring of 2014. [...]
The second edition of the PC(USA) Mid Councils Commission is meeting this weekend in Dallas. Having served on the first (failed) attempt at this, I have a question I’d love to hear some Presbyterian perspectives on: Can the PC(USA) be reformed? Here’s some background. Yesterday I wrote a post in which I pondered whether the best [...]
When asked what it is about Presbyterianism that people most value, connectionalism always emerges as an essential element of this way of being Christian. Yet no one really seems to know what this means. Some might quote the Book of Order: “Congregations of the Presbyterian Church (USA), while possessing all the gifts necessary to be [...]
I spent last week in Washington, DC for a conference called Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity. Though I wasn’t sure I would be able to attend until the last minute, I had been looking forward to this conference for a year or so. It promised to bring together the two theological areas [...]
This post comes directly from the PC(USA) Mid Councils Commission report (28-29). I wrote this for the “Changing Contexts” section of the report. I am posting discrete sections of our report as a means of generating conversation, so please make comments. At the end of this post, I have suggested some questions to stimulate your [...]
