As always good, Presbyterian, fun was had with PCA Ruling Elder Brad “Chortles” Isbell and Wresbyterian on Presbycast last night as we discussed the Open Letter, the essay by the founder of the National Partnership, and the status and function of the Standards in the PCA ahead of the upcoming GA.
Here are the two HB posts we discussed:
- How “The Letter” Reads To An Outsider
- More Thoughts About The PCA: Liberal v Conservative Is The Wrong Paradigm
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- The Ecumenical Creeds
- The Reformed Confessions
- Recovering the Reformed Confession (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008).
- D. G. Hart, Broadening Churches Break. Will The PCA?
- Presbycast: Drawing Lines and Writing Letters in the PCA
- Jon Payne, A Response To The Open Letter
- 2021 GRN Conference Talks
- Steven Spinnenweber, Honest Thoughts On The Open Letter
- Jared Nelson, Understanding the PCA GA
- Derek Brite, A New Exception To The Westminster Standards?
- Resources On LGBTQ And Revoice
- Can The PCA’s “Big Tent” Hold?
- Three Vital Questions For the PCA In 2021
- Jon Payne: The PCA Is In Trouble
- A Quiet Crisis In The PCA?
- Payne: The PCA Is At A Crossroads
- Office Hours: With Jon Payne On Discipleship And Revoice
- From “Insofar As” To “Good Faith:” The Slope To The Mainline
- An Alternative to the PCA’s Strategic Plan (Updated and Expanded)
- “Sectarians” v “Relevants” in the PCA and the Strategic Plan
- Is the Strategic Plan Presbyterian?
- Thoughts on the PCA’s Proposed Strategic Plan
- Bob Godfrey, The Myth of Influence
- Office Hours with Bob Godfrey on The Myth of Influence
- Of Militants and Moderates
- The Presbyterian Controversy: A Review
- D. G. Hart, Defending The Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America (2003)
- Machen’s Letter To His Mother Or What To Do With Dead Sinners?
- Office Hours: What Happened To Reformed Orthodoxy? (1)
- Office Hours: What Happened To Reformed Orthodoxy? (2)
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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Worthwhile discussion that helps clarify the SSA issue roiling the PCA, not to mention some interesting asides! Thanks to the three contributors.
Scott, you mentioned Rosaria Butterfield in the discussion. This seems on point:
“We are called to repent of the original sin that distorts us, the actual sin that distracts us, and the indwelling sin that manipulates us. This is a high and hard calling. —Rosaria Butterfield