Index: Theological
Task Force on Peace, Unity and Purity
Robert A.J. Gagnon
Ordination
essentials 'for all time and all persons?' Reasons # 9 and 10 why the
Achtemeier overture is extremist and invalid
March 5, 2008
Robert A.J. Gagnon
Ordination essentials 'for all time and all persons?' Reason # 8 why
the Achtemeier overture is extremist and invalid
March 4, 2008
Robert A.J. Gagnon
Ordination
essentials 'for all time and all persons?' Reasons 6 and 7 why the
Achtemeier overture is extremist and invalid
February 29, 2008
Robert A.J. Gagnon
Ordination
essentials 'for all time and all persons?' Reasons 3 and 4 why the
Achtemeier overture is extremist and invalid
February 28, 2008
Robert A.J. Gagnon
Ordination
essentials 'for all time and all persons?' Reasons 1 and 2 why the
Achtemeier overture is extremist and invalid
February 27, 2008
Achtemeier to be G.A. overture
advocate
Overture
seeks to 'hopefully overturn' court ruling upholding
'fidelity/chastity' ordination standard
February 22, 2008
Robert A.J. Gagnon
GAPJC scraps scruples on G-6.0106b, but constitutional amendments
still needed
February 22, 2008
General Assembly Permanent
Judicial Commission
From
the age of 'unless' to the inevitable 'until'
February 19, 2008
PCUSA
moderator speaks to 'impact' of court decisions, kairos moment
February 19, 2008
Bob Davis blog
The
GA PJC decisions and Advisory Opinion #21
February 15, 2008
General Assembly Permanent
Judicial Commission
Rulings
uphold 'fidelity/chastity' standard for candidates being considered
for ordination
February 14, 2008
PUP report's AI challenged
Church
court to decide on ordination cases
February 13, 2008
Bob Davis blog
General
Assembly PJC takes up three cases on ordination standards
February 11, 2008
Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area
-
'Fidelity/chastity' ordination standard not an essential of
Reformed faith and polity, commissioners decide
- Commissioners
question essentials, Scripture and personal relationships
- Presbytery also validates
teaching ministry
Commissioners
vote to restore openly gay man to the ordained office of minister
in the PCUSA
- Meeting
documents provide stark illustration of chasm separating two
faiths in the PCUSA
January 28, 2008
Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area
Gay
former minister's request to restore PCUSA ordination to be addressed
this weekend
January 24, 2008
Lesbian's bid to become minister
moves forward
San Francisco Presbytery first in PCUSA to apply 2006 Authoritative
Interpretation to openly gay candidate
January 22, 2008
San
Francisco-area Presbyterians OK lesbian's bid for ordination
January 16, 2008
Presbyterians
in San Francisco area to vote on lesbian's pastor ordination
January 14, 2008
Presbyterian Coalition
Examining candidates for ordination and installation in the new
environment created by the PUP report
January 14, 2008
Presbytery
meeting on gay ex-minister's request for G-6 scruple, reinstatement
scheduled Jan. 26
January 11, 2008
Credits PUP report in request
Gay
former minister declares scruple; requests reinstatement of PCUSA
ordination, membership
November 19, 2007
Refusal to enforce property clause
a 'misuse of its discretion'
Court
rules presbytery policy upholding ordination standards is
unconstitutional
June 26, 2007
Requirement vs. standards
The
plain sense of the English language in G.0106b and the PUP task force
report
March 5, 2007
Presbytery
approves overture to 218th G.A. seeking to rescind AI from PUP report
March 1, 2007
Report:
Moderator says PUP task force 'gave it their best shot' in report, but
failed
February 12, 2007
Stay
of enforcement issued against presbytery for voting to uphold
ordination standards
January 5, 2007
Report
withheld from 2006 GA leans against ordination option
Kirkpatrick, who lobbied for PUP report, didn't want survey to sway
commissioners
December 1, 2006
Openly
gay PUP panel member seeks to become inquirer toward ordination as
PCUSA minister
November 6, 2006
PCUSA
poll on PUP report delayed after stated clerk objected
August 22, 2006
African
church leaders warn PCUSA that they may cut ties
July 13, 2006
Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.
'I am of the middle:' The subgroup of the 'middle' and its
accommodation to sexual immorality
July 13, 2006
The 'church of the subgroups' comes under fire at conference
July 10, 2006
Evangelical
ministers, sessions react to General Assembly decisions
July 5, 2006
PCUSA
constitutionalists respond to GA decision
June 28, 2006
Renewal
leaders call PUP vote 'a profound deviation from Biblical
requirements'
June 21, 2006
'Something
in it for everyone,' task force member says after GA approves PUP
report
June 21, 2006
GA
says ordaining bodies can shun ban on choosing gays as elders,
deacons, ministers
June 20, 2006
Commentary
An
amazing grace slows the show
June 20, 2006
Committee
approves PUP report 41-22; minority will carry debate to assembly
floor
June 19, 2006
Renewal
leader outlines 'fatal flaw' in final report of PUP task force
June 19, 2006
PUP
testifies before assembly committee
June 17, 2006
Commissioners
lobbied by PUP Task Force
June 16, 2006
Task
Force says 1729 Act basis for ordaining gays; Digest about act
disagrees
May 18, 2006
In
two columns, three former GAPJC members say PUP's recommendation 5 is
flawed
May 17, 2006
Task
force member lectures others on faith
May 12, 2006
Task Force-Coalition debate
Questions
about scrupling and essentials are debated
May 12, 2006
Report of morning session
PUP members give views on sex outside of marriage
May 12, 2006
Session
says GA adoption of PUP report 'would be a grievous and irrevocable
error'
May 11, 2006
Five
PUP members face interrogation by Coalition
May 9, 2006
From the April 2006 issue of The
Layman
Former
GAPJC members: Adoption of PUP proposal would cause a ‘tectonic
shift’
May 8, 2006
From the April 2006 issue of The
Layman
Should
we follow the theological task force or stand with Luther?
May 8, 2006
An
analysis of the PUP report
By Parker T. Williamson
April 27, 2006
Two
more overtures oppose PUP proposal
April 25, 2006
Pastors
of large congregations ready 'for redefinition' of unity
April 19, 2006
Highland
Park to work against PUP's proposal
April 13, 2006
Another
PCUSA session fires warning shot on PUP report
March 24, 2006
Session
adopts San Diego-like statement on future PCUSA ties
March 24, 2006
San
Diego opposes PUP recommendation; eyes future ties with PCUSA
March 22, 2006
Presbytery
wants several votes by GA on PUP report
March 20, 2006
Denomination
schedules long pre-assembly presentations on task force report,
divestment
March 10, 2006
Advisory
panel says GA has power to approve PUP report
March 8, 2006
Overture
wants PCUSA to ask tough questions about PUP recommendation
March 1, 2006
Texas
overture says task force erred in disregarding 'essential'
February 17, 2006
Tropical
Florida asks commissioners to reject PUP task force's final report
February 17, 2006
Open letter on PUP report
An objection
also to what the task force does not say
February 6, 2006
Pittsburgh
overture wants G-6.0106b to be 'essential'
February 6, 2006
Response during California 'dialogue'
Task
Force proposal would increase distrust, fragmentation
January 25, 2006
Open letter on PUP meeting
After
'dialogue,' some lingering questions
January 24, 2006
Calif.
overture says task force erred in disregarding 'essential'
January 23, 2006
Episcopal
PUP-like panel calls for 'amicable divorce' if necessary
January 20, 2006
Proposed
overture would radically change theological task force's
recommendations
January 19, 2006
Task
force report omits Scripture on homosexuality
January 18, 2006
Panel
members coaching each other on questions
January 16, 2006
Task
force members told of time constraints for making their case
January 16, 2006
Co-moderator's
opposition to executive session evaporates
January 16, 2006
Expanded
version of views about homosexuality discussed
January 16, 2006
PUP
hones answers to the tough questions
January 12, 2006
Task
force members tell how they feel about winding down
January 11, 2006
Task
force member expands his work on ordination issue
January 6, 2006
PUP
to consider another report on human sexuality
January 5, 2006
PUP
co-moderator comments on the willing and the arrogant
January 4, 2006
Web-based
Calvinistic group asks sessions to consider 7 questions
January 3, 2006
Presbytery's
overture calls for changes in PUP proposals
December 12, 2005
Renewal
leaders' statement criticizing PUP report continues to gain
endorsements
November 21, 2005
Coalition
Gathering: Feeling the wedge effect
PUP's task force report wet-blankets traditionally ebullient affair
November 17, 2005
An
analysis of the report of the Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity
and Purity in the Presbyterian Church (USA)
By the Presbyterian Lay Committee
November 15, 2005
Seminary
presidents offer brief approval of PUP report
November 1, 2005
San
Diego may consider overture in response to task force report
October 20, 2005
Open letter to the PCUSA
PUP
report sails into alien territory
October 18, 2005
Presbyterians
endorse renewal leaders statement on PUP report
October 17, 2005
Analysis
of the PUP Task Force's historical problem
October 3, 2005
Quartet
conducts one-way show on task force report
September 23, 2005
Kirkpatrick
says task force report 'offers great hope' for the PCUSA
September 19, 2005
Renewal
group says PUP recommendation will, in effect, introduce 'local
option'
September 8, 2005
Witherspoon
Society downplays 'essentials,' calls for deletion of AI and G-6.0106b
September 8, 2005
2
pro-gay ordination groups tread gently on PUP report
September 8, 2005
Prof. Robert A.J. Gagnon
A
local option Trojan Horse
September 7, 2005
Pittsburgh
seminary prof criticizes task force report
September 7, 2005
Gay
activist group cites 'abusive power' in attacking report of PUP task
force
September 7, 2005
Lay
Committee CEO offers reflections on task force report
September 1, 2005
Gay
activist calls task force recommendations 'a call to continue
prejudice and discrimination'
September 1, 2005
Leader
of renewal group says task force proposal will create 'a more rather
than less divided church'
August 31, 2005
Coalition
says task force's recommendation 'appears to permit what the
Constitution currently prohibits'
August 30, 2005
More
Light calls task force recommendation 'deeply insulting,' urges
deletion of G-6.0106b
August 30, 2005
Task
force proposal on ordination comes close to local option
August 25, 2005
Task
Force releases final report and recommendations
August 25, 2005
Task
Force members question statement about gay couples in 'committed'
relationships
August 24, 2005
Chronology
of the Theological Task Force
August 15, 2005
Task
force decision-making process eluded observers
August 1, 2005
Reminded
of mandate, task force goes back to the future
July 25, 2005
Task
Force has no proposal on issue of ordaining homosexuals
July 20, 2005
First PUP draft lightly addresses gay ordination, liberation theology
July 20, 2005
Task
force members indicate commitment to unity may trump ban on gay
ordinations
July 6, 2005
Theological
Task Force to receive draft proposals
June 23, 2005
Task
force writing groups, assignments are disclosed
March 10, 2005
Task
force doesn't reveal who'll write 4 segments or what they will be
about
March 8, 2005
Task
force team to draft final report – going where?
March 7, 2005
'Severing'
clause in task force report draws a second look
March 4, 2005
Task
force votes to close half of its 3-day meeting
March 2, 2005
Gagnon
responds to Achtemeier
March 2, 2005
Achtemeier
responds to Gagnon
March 2, 2005
Reflections
on the Achtemeier-Layman Controversy
March 1, 2005
Task
Force meeting goal is to start work toward report
February 25, 2005
Achtemeier's response to Layman
Article's
claims 'categorically false'
February 9, 2005
Williamson's response to Achtemeier
Retraction,
apology not warranted
February 9, 2005
PCUSA
task force member declares his 'departure from Biblical tradition'
February 7, 2005
Task
force broaches possibility of listing some 'essential tenets'
October 15, 2004
Kirkpatrick
backs off rhetoric of anti-capitalism statement
October 15, 2004
Task
force to prohibit press coverage of key discussions
October 15, 2004
Draft
paper suggests possibility of ordaining 'committed' gays
October 14, 2004
So
far, task force has done little to get feedback from Presbyterians
August 11, 2004
Task
force members comment on views about homosexuality
August 6, 2004
Six
views of homosexuality precede a closed meeting to discuss them
August 4, 2004
Bible
scholar criticizes task force's theological work
June 26, 2004
Open
letter: Task Force report distorts unity/purity message of Ephesians
June 26, 2004
Task
force members sum up their work in a few words
February 25, 2004
PCUSA
compared to Bible's dysfunctional families
February 24, 2004
Task
force member raises 'integrity' question about those defying church
law
February 23, 2004
Task
force adopts interim report, proposal for General Assembly
February 23, 2004
Moderator
figures (right or wrong?) task force will focus on unity
February 20, 2004
Task
force members reflect on their meeting
October 22, 2003
Presbyterian
history lesson: dissension, schism, reunion
October 21, 2003
Task
force talks about sex issues
October 20, 2003
Task
force members discuss how group will make decisions
October 17, 2003
Task
Force discusses how to close meetings
August 11, 2003
Minority
task force members cite their cultural differences
August 11, 2003
Study
on foot-washing ritual spawns spirited discussion
August 7, 2003
Theological
Task Force shuns ordination question
August 7, 2003
Commissioners
decide to leave ordination issue in hands of 'PUP'
June 2, 2003
Leader
says Theological Task Force won't 'slug it out'
May 29, 2003
Task
force authorized to bar observers from its discussions
May 29, 2003
General
Assembly to be asked to ban press from task force debates
May 28, 2003
Speakers
oppose, back overture to ban press from task force debates
May 27, 2003
Committee
rejects overture seeking to add evangelical advisers to theological
task force
May 27, 2003
Overture
calls for evangelical advisers to theological task force
May 12, 2003
Overture
would ban press from debate about issues
May 9, 2003
Professors
have different views of homosexual practice, but reach a shared
conclusion
February 25, 2003
Task
force examines clash over Scripture in confessions
February 24, 2003
Task
Force may begin digging into issues at its next meeting
February 24, 2003
Task
force asked to mull possibility of writing confessional-quality report
February 21, 2003
Overture
proposes advisers for Theological Task Force
December 18, 2002
Task
force in 'harmony' without debating issues
October 28, 2002
Clerk
wants to recruit task force to help revise 'Book of Order'
October 28, 2002
Theologian
wants Nicene Creed to help task force do its work
October 25, 2002
Task
Force reviews census figures, tract on U.S. religion
October 24, 2002
Briefly:
Task force wary of the press
August 5, 2002
Theological
task force adopts schedule for addressing issues
August 5, 2002
Multimedia
'curriculum' is on task force's agenda
August 5, 2002
Task
Force members begin to look to their final report
August 5, 2002
Theological
task force eludes tough questions
March 4, 2002
Task
force has no comment on four pertinent overtures
March 4, 2002
Panel
members wary over press coverage
December 12, 2001
Task
force settles on name; goals are peace, purity, unity
December 11, 2001
Moderator,
stated clerk: Don't focus on sex issues
December 10, 2001
Theological
task force to begin dealing with 'pain' in February
December 10, 2001
PCUSA
theological task force includes both ends of spectrum
November 27, 2001
General
Assembly approves task force to lead church in the 'spiritual
discernment of our Christian identity'
June 14, 2001
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