Jeanie's Story Part 1: How a Podcast Opened the Door to Understanding
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Release Date: 04/08/2025
Jeanie's Story Part 3: How An Apology Caused Additional Harm
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Here is the text of Book of Church Order chapter 40, paragraph 5 (BCO 40-5) When any court having appellate jurisdiction shall receive a credible report with respect to the court next below of any important delinquency or grossly unconstitutional proceedings of such court, the first step shall be to cite the court alleged to have offended to appear before the court having appellate jurisdiction, or its commission, by representative or in writing, at a specified time and place, and to show what the lower court has done or failed to do in the case in question. The court thus issuing the...
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Special Episode: 2025 General Assembly Overtures Part 4
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Today is our final episode about Overtures to the 2025 PCAGeneral Assembly. Here is a link to , author of Jesus Calling. Here is the post with a summary of . Join our to discuss and ask questions about General Assembly. Download the . Listen to and the court case behind it here (minute marker 16:54) Article on Overture 31 - Stories from the Presbyterian Pew depends on financial support from listeners. To contribute to the costs of producing and hosting the podcast, please visit
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Special Episode: 2025 General Assembly Overtures Part 3
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In our third episode about Overtures to the 2025 General Assembly we discuss Overtures related to various committees and agencies of the General Assembly. Here are some diagrams that show the difference between how slots on most of the committees and agencies of the General Assembly are filled vs how slots on the Administrative Committee are filled. Here is a link to whose Temporary Protected Status was removed. The is under the umbrella of MNA (Mission to North America). Here is a link to the after the webpage with links to third-party organizations giving legal...
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Special Episode: 2025 General Assembly Overtures Part 2
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This is Part 2 of our special series on 2025 PCA General Assembly Overtures. Here is a link to the MASSIVE post we published . And for discussion and questions, . You can find the article about the . Stories from the Presbyterian Pew depends on financial support from listeners. To contribute to the costs of producing and hosting the podcast, please visit
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Special Episode: 2025 General Assembly Overtures Part 1
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Today, we're doing something a bit different. Instead of hearing from one of our storytellers, we'll take a few episodes to talk about the upcoming PCA General Assembly. You can find an article describing . And if you'd like a space to ask questions and learn more about how General Assembly operates, you can . Stories from the Presbyterian Pew depends on financial support from listeners. To contribute to the costs of producing and hosting the podcast, please visit
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Lane’s Story Part 2: A Woman of Her Stature
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Lane joins us for Part 2 of her story and shares what she discovered when she and her husband requested the session minutes. Stories from the Presbyterian Pew depends on financial support from listeners. To contribute to the costs of producing and hosting the podcast, please visit
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Lane's Story Part 1: The Question That Changed Everything
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In this story, Lane talks about filing a complaint with the session of their church. Chapter 43 of the Book of Church Order covers complaints, but the only explicit information about what a complaint includes are these two sentences from 43-1 and 43-2: "A complaint is a written representation made against some act or decision of a court of the Church. It is the right of any communing member of the Church in good standing to make complaint against any action of a court to whose jurisdiction he is subject, except that no complaint is allowable in a judicial case in which an appeal is...
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Ashley's Story Part 4: The Shepherding Committee that Didn't Shepherd
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One aspect of this part of Ashley’s story is the difficulty she had being released from her membership in a PCA church after she had been harmed there and was struggling to find a safe place to worship. Ashley is very much not alone in this struggle. If you are facing that difficulty, please reach out to us through the form on our website. We can help you to navigate all of the factors involved in your decision and to understand your options. Stories from the Presbyterian Pew depends on financial support from listeners. To contribute to the costs of producing and hosting the podcast,...
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Ashley's Story Part 3: What She Discovered at Presbytery
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Here are some relevant sections from the Book of Church Order about teaching elders serving "out of bounds". 8-7. A Presbytery may, at its discretion, approve the call of a teaching elder to work with an organization outside the jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Church in America, provided that he be engaged in preaching and teaching the Word, that the Presbytery be assured he will have full freedom to maintain and teach the doctrine of our Church, and that he report at least annually on his work. As far as possible, such a teaching elder shall be a member of the Presbytery within whose bounds...
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Ashley's Story Part 2: What Was Happening at School
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Here are the definitions of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment from the . Sexual Assault Sexual assault is any type of sexual behavior or contact where consent is not freely given or obtained. It is accomplished through force, intimidation, violence, coercion, manipulation, threat, deception, or abuse of authority. Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It consists of inappropriate verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an...
info_outlineIn this episode, Jeanie mentioned that she found help from two podcasts and a group. Here are links to those resources:
In the introduction, we read a quote from the report of the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Committee of the PCA. At the end of the episode, we also recommended the paper "Divorce and Domestic Abuse". It is written by Shane Waldron, PCA Pastor and founder of Refuge Ministries. The paper is included as an attachment to the PCA's DASA Report. You can download the Report near the bottom of this page.
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