S. Donald Fortson is Professor of Church History and Pastoral Theology Emeritus at Reformed Theological Seminary. Dr. Fortson served as a professor on the Charlotte campus of RTS for twenty-six years. Before his time at RTS he served as a fulltime Presbyterian pastor for nine years followed by three years on the faculty of Gordon-Conwell Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He is the author of Liberty in Non-Essentials: The Story of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (2016). His father was a member of the founding generation of the EPC in 1981. Other publications include Unchanging Witness: The Consistent Christian Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition, co-author with Rollin G. Grams (B&H Academic, 2016) and Reformed & Evangelical Across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America, co-Author with Nathan Feldmeth, Garth Rosell and Ken Stewart (Eerdmans, 2022).
Several articles1 have been written about the recent vote of the 46th Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) General Assembly (June 2026) approving a revised pastoral letter on human sexuality2 that allows congregations and presbyteries to consider the ordination of same-sex-attracted church officers. The . . . Continue reading →