A workshop resource assisting ruling elders in their role after service on the session is available below.
The November 2011 Presbyterian Panel Survey, pertaining to Biblical issues.
Theological Conversation 2017-3: “Words Matter” by Mary Beth Anton, a PC(USA) pastor in the Presbytery of Tres Rios. As Anton points out, it’s hard to get away from the way words have become used in new and careless ways as weapons. We also know that our use of words can sometimes be sloppy and careless. As she points out, the Reformers took words very seriously because they took the accessibility of the Word seriously. How can we deepen our faith as individuals or communities if words don’t matter? She asks the hard question: how can the Church be the Church …
Final report of the Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church.
This Quicksheet outlines how to lead Theology Chats with college students and young adults.
Compensation and its Theological and Ethical Meaning in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — a 2009 Survey of Pastors
This packet is intended to help you facilitate a discernment process in which participants will work through the material in “Encountering the Gospel of Peace Anew: An Invitation to Discernment and Witness,” the Peace Discernment Steering Team’s Interim Report to the 220th General Assembly (2012).
Use this study guide with The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
This resolution revised "The Power to Speak Truth to Power" (1981), While the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has not been silent over these years, the changes required of us, both as a church and as a broader culture have only become more daunting themselves, and we must confess that our own witness and example have not been as strong as they might have been.
A public policy statement on energy, its production and use, written at a time when it was understood that the era of cheap and abundant energy was over. This policy speaks truth about energy in transition to decision makers, in government, industry, church and family.