Thoughts from Peter Drucker: 1) It is better to be conscientious than clever. 2) It is better to get the wrong answer to the right question than the right answer to the wrong question . Following are some thoughts and reflections on the recently released PCA Strategic Plan. I offer them up for consideration, as... Continue Reading

This letter is in response to the story first posted in The Aquila Report on April 23 http://bit.ly/cLAnLf The General Assembly Committee on Ecumenical Relations’ report states that presbytery leaders were caught off guard by the level of distrust and discontentment found in leaving congregations. Where have they been? Congregations have been talking about leaving... Continue Reading

After viewing Friday night’s Larry King Live with Jennifer Knapp, I was struck with the question: Why is it that whenever a proponent of Christianity’s historical view of sexuality goes head to head with an advocate for gay rights, the traditional Christian almost always loses the argument? Read the transcript from Friday’s roundtable discussion here.... Continue Reading

“Is it true as the StratPlan claims on page one that the PCA has assigned radical overhaul planning to the Cooperative Ministries Committee (CMC)? And that Rules of Assembly Operations 7-3 mandated this? Pauly D: “Is it true as the StratPlan claims on page one that the PCA has assigned radical overhaul planning to the... Continue Reading

In the summer of 2006, two documents which were annotated as “privileged and confidential attorney work documents’ were selectively released within the PCUSA to provide advise to Presbyteries dealing with churches who wanted to withdraw from the PCUSA One document concerned church property disputes. The other dealt with recommended processes that presbyteries could use in... Continue Reading

Adapted from the book ”God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences Matter.” At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true. This... Continue Reading

In other words, we are expected to frame our planning in response to the ominous tale of the S-curve. The question is whether or not we are learning the right lesson. The first page of the proposed 2010 PCA Strategic Plan features a “modified S-curve” giving a representation of the PCA’s numerical growth over time.... Continue Reading

We are not likely ever to see the like of Cecil Sherman again. No one will be able to understand the history of the Southern Baptist Convention in the twentieth century without reference to him. No one who had a meaningful encounter with him will ever forget him. Cecil Sherman may have led the moderate... Continue Reading

Now, the court’s conservative wing – Samuel A. Alito Jr., Anthony M. Kennedy, John G. Roberts Jr., Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, all appointed in the last 25 years by Republican presidents – is entirely Catholic When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens steps down this summer, he will leave the court – long dominated... Continue Reading

To read Bradley’s application of these principles to the Presbyterian Church in America, go here: http://bit.ly/au08jw If your denomination is 25-years-old or older, it is has likely peaked and plateaued in terms of numbers and influence—unless you are from a Pentecostal or Charismatic tradition. The pace of social change is faster in our era than... Continue Reading