“Within this framework of our common and principled commitment to complementarianism as defined by our confessional standards and polity, the 44th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America approved the formation of a study committee on the issue of women serving in the church’s ministry in ways that are consistent with those standards. The […]
The mandate of Philadelphia Presbytery’s committee was very narrow: to seek to know whether physical abuse of a spouse might have been in the thinking of the Westminster Assembly as it formulated its position: “…yet nothing but adultery, or such willful desertion as can no way be remedied by the Church or civil magistrate, is […]