Ashley's Story Part 3: What She Discovered at Presbytery
Stories from the Presbyterian Pew
Release Date: 05/06/2025
Grooming: Manipulation, Isolation, and Shame
Stories from the Presbyterian Pew
The word “grooming” has become a household term and is tossed around in common conversation about everything from politics to reading lists. But what does grooming really mean? What does it actually look like? And would you be able to recognize it? This episode of the Stories from the Presbyterian Pew podcast is based roughly on . Recommended resources: - free online course on our site, walking through the PCA's DASA Report and interviews with DASA authors. by Tricia Lott Williford and Jana Richardson MA LPC EMDR (For a summary overview of these concepts, see .)...
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Becky’s Story Part 3: Rebuilding Trust
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In the first two parts of Becky's story, we heard about the crisis in her marriage and the involvement of the Presbytery. In this episode, Becky shares some practical and personal details about what it looked like to restore trust in the marriage as well as with other organizations. 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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Becky’s Story Part 2: One Year with the Presbytery
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Today's episode picks up with the second part of Becky's story as her family returns from the mission field and the Presbytery begins the process of church discipline with her husband. You'll hear a lot of terms related to PCA church government in this episode. We'll define them for you in the introduction, but you can learn more in our free online course, . 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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Becky’s Story Part 1: The Night it All Blew Up
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We begin Season 2 of the podcast with Becky's story - a story that includes pain and betrayal, but also hope and the triumph of the Gospel in the face of sin and brokenness. Becky and her husband were missionaries with the PCA's international missions organization, Mission to the World (MTW). 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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Season 2 Intro: Longing for Safety, Living in Tension
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For an understanding of the purpose behind the Stories from the Presbyterian Pew Podcast, we recommend the first episode from Season 1. You can or on your favorite podcast app. A year ago, I wrote . Today's episode covers similar ideas. The live Zoom conversations from our DASA Discussion Facebook group can now be found in our free online course, . To volunteer or find out more about the opportunities, visit our . If you would like to be a Presbytery Companion, you can . Here is a link to . Stories from the Presbyterian Pew depends on financial support...
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Personal Reflections on the 2025 PCA General Assembly
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Sign up to be a Presbytery Companion: Donate to send Lynna to General Assembly next year and get a "I Support BCO Education for Everyone" sticker: A collection of X updates about the Overtures Committee business: Timestamped links to all major debates and decisions during the main meetings of General Assembly: Speech in support of Item 3 (expanded representation for accused): Minority Report on Overture 12 (limiting distribution of communion to officers only): The Importance of Administrative Suspension During a Trial: The Problems with Overture 31 - ...
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Special Guest Adair Evans: MTW Missionary to Victims of Sex Trafficking in Germany
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Learn more about Adair's work, sign up for her newsletter, and support her financially . You can also email her at 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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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...
info_outlineHere 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 he labors. (See BCO 20-1.)
13-2. A minister shall be required to hold his membership in the Presbytery within whose geographical bounds he resides, unless there are reasons which are satisfactory to his Presbytery why he should not do so. When a minister labors outside the geographical bounds of, or in a work not under the jurisdiction of his Presbytery, at home or abroad, it shall be only with the full concurrence of and under circumstances agreeable to his Presbytery, and to the Presbytery within whose geographical bounds he labors, if one exists. When a minister shall continue on the rolls of his Presbytery without a call to a particular work for a prolonged period, not exceeding three years, the procedure as set forth in BCO 34-10 shall be followed. A minister without call shall make or file a report to his Presbytery at least once each year.
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