Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

A highlight of last week for me was discussing with my new friend Southern Fried Yankee our visions of what the PCA might become. Grateful to Harrison Ford for moderating the good conversation at the Next Generation Forum and for Mere Orthodoxy for publishing the talks. mereorthodoxy.com/geoff-ziegler-…

Ordinarily, there is no possibility of salvation outside the Church.

Self-awareness is necessary but insufficient to being a healthy person.

Robert’s Rules of Order prohibits negative insinuations about others’ motivations, a disposition that has often been called “suspicion.” The moral tradition opposing “suspicion” in this sense extends at least as far back as Augustine. It was lost in the 20th century and

The covenant of grace in Reformed theology is not an utterly ahistorical abstraction away from God's covenant dealings in history with Abraham, Moses, David, etc. It is an interpretation of these historically discrete actions as part of a unified whole, the economy of redemption.

The Holy Spirit does extraordinary things through ordinary churches, ordinary people, and ordinary means. - paraphrase of Sean Lucas in Presbyterianism

Baptism is not made invalid by an impious or unbelieving pastor. Similarly, the Lord's Table is not rendered invalid by the errant theology of the priest administering it. The sacraments are God's gifts, effective by the Spirit & the words of institution to be received by faith.

"The enduring importance of baptism rests in what it always says about God and his gospel, and not what it sometimes says about the person who is baptized.” - Chad Van Dixhoorn

Christianity is a religion (just not a man-made one) that is lived within the context of an institution (the Church). Christianity is not merely an individual/personal relationship with God.

In the US, the Church is assaulted by revisionist and individualized "Christianities." Progressives reject the historic message and doctrine of the faith. Evangelicals (Pentecostals/Baptists/Non-Denominationalists) reject the historic, institutional shape of the faith.

A few reflections on the forefathers of the PCA and what helped to make us such a biblically faithful, culturally impactful and growing denomination that I hope everyone will keep in mind as a new group and generation moves into the ascendency. #PCA #PCAGA

Christian unity in Christ by the Spirit is a reality untouched by the division in the visible church, yet our spiritual union demands that we manifest and maintain this unity in church membership, in connectionalism, and, most of all, in love toward one another.

PCAers: Let’s clarify some matters being debated so we don’t conflate different issues. 1) It is perfectly acceptable for men to be nominated from the floor for permanent committees, SJC, and agency boards. This does NOT violate our grass-roots culture. 2) It is clear the Nom