Who ordains ruling elders — and why is the PC(USA) revisiting it now?
A once-quiet question is resurfacing across the denomination. According to Christian Boyd, it could shape how the church calls and equips leaders in the years ahead.
The Rev. Dr. Christian Dominic Boyd is a Presbyterian pastor and stated clerk whose ministry has focused on church polity, spiritual formation, and ecumenical dialogue. He currently serves as the Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Milwaukee and Southminster Presbyterian Church in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
A once-quiet question is resurfacing across the denomination. According to Christian Boyd, it could shape how the church calls and equips leaders in the years ahead.
Stated clerk and pastor Christian Boyd argues that reducing the "Book of Confessions" risks unmooring Presbyterian formation from its theological foundations.
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