Editor's Note: Read the Theological Vision here. Before it is anything else, the PCA must be a denomination with Christ at our center. The Father has appointed his Son to be our cornerstone, our builder, and the head toward whom we grow. There is nothing more...
Below you’ll find AMR’s Theological Vision, a statement outlining our foundation, posture, identity, and mission. This document is offered as a shared vision for the life and work of the Church. For further context, read Geoff Ziegler’s introduction to the theological...
In this interview, Derek Radney speaks with Rev. David Richter, co-chair of the board of the Alliance for Mission and Renewal, about the AMR board’s recent statement and the season facing the PCA. Drawing on a year of listening across the denomination, the...
There are moments in the life of the church when ordinary faithfulness must be joined by fresh attentiveness. Not because Christ has ceased to build his church. Not because the ordinary means of grace have become insufficient. Not because every season of tension...
The question of women serving as deacons continues to generate sustained discussion within the Presbyterian Church in America. For decades, faithful leaders—equally committed to the authority of Scripture and the good of Christ’s church—have reached differing...
Worship is formative, like it or not. The songs we sing in church, or in a ministry like RUF1 express the DNA of our group (“Is this a safe place to admit my struggles?”) and they reflect our understanding of what the normal Christian life feels like. Of course...
When I was fourteen years old, my father asked me to be his partner in a new personal evangelism training course our church was conducting. “It’s called Evangelism Explosion,” he said. “I think it will help us grow in our own faith too.” How right he was! We not only...
For their December 24, 1962, issue of the liberal Presbyterian Outlook, the editors commissioned a symposium with theology professors representing the four Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) seminaries. The question to be addressed: “Do we need an...
In this conversation, Derek Radney (Trinity Church PCA, Winston-Salem) sits down with Rev. Charles McGowan—AMR advisory board member, PCA pastor emeritus, former Moderator of the PCA General Assembly (1996), and founder of the McGowan Global Institute—to hear a...
I’ve never been more encouraged by an action of the General Assembly than its 2017 commendation of the Ad Interim committee report on women serving in the ministry of the church. For me—as for many—it represented a shift for the PCA’s from a back-heel posture on these...
