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Assembly Committee #17: Review of GA Permanent Committees

Posted on June 29, 2010 by presbybob

It is tough to review the business when pc-biz is down. (Update: sometime between this morning and now, pc-biz is back on-line). (I am writing on Tuesday morning. pc-biz is generating a page that says: Bad Request (Invalid Hostname) The … Continue reading →

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Assembly Committee 12: Civil Unions and Marriage Issues

Posted on June 22, 2010 by presbybob

This is going to be a bit of a different take on the business before Committee 12: Civil Unions and Marriage Issues. The business is pretty limited: do we uphold the definition of marriage as being between a man and … Continue reading →

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Assembly Committee #5: Church Polity

Posted on June 9, 2010 by presbybob

A reminder: my goal in this series of posts is to give a reflection on the things I will be watching coming out of the Assembly Committees; not to survey each and every item. Assembly Committee #5: Church Polity will … Continue reading →

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ACSWP – The Pay Police

Posted on April 22, 2010 by presbybob

Reading through the nine — NINE — ACSWP submissions to the 219th General Assembly (2010), I started with Rec-065 “Neither Poverty Nor Riches: Compensation, Equity, and the Unity of the Church.” (As an aside, the links to business in previous notes … Continue reading →

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ACSWP – Overload

Posted on April 21, 2010 by presbybob

The Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy has nine — NINE — separate pieces coming for action to the 219th General Assembly  (2010). • On Living a Human Life Before God—a study paper updating the Nature and Value of Human … Continue reading →

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Puerto Rico and the COGA Commission

Posted on April 6, 2010 by presbybob

Today, a practical application of the potential power of the COGA Commission (Recommendation-042). Recommendation 73-01 requests an administrative commission with the power to: B. Middle Governing Body Restructure—Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (the Commonwealth) 1.   The 219th General Assembly (2010) authorizes … Continue reading →

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RFRC and GA friendship

Posted on March 30, 2010 by presbybob

This is a post I am writing for myself — if you don’t want to spend a lot of time reading it, I won’t mind. So often I find myself focusing on the business and the consequences of actions of … Continue reading →

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Standing Rules and “Collaboration”

Posted on March 26, 2010 by presbybob

There are now 97 overtures and 42 recommendations posted on pc-biz. (By the way, the COGA commission is now posted as Rec-o42. Look at #5. That’s the big one. We’ll get back to that in future posts.) I want to … Continue reading →

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