You Have To Be There I Guess
The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is underway in Minneapolis. Every two years Presbyterians of the PC(USA) stripe gather for several days of... I really am not sure how to describe what happens at our GA gatherings. I do know that each time we have one we seem to grow a little more divided and a little more irrelevant as a denomination. But that's just my opinion. But the people who are there, working, meeting, worshiping and trying to "reason together" as Christian brothers and sisters seem to be enjoying it--or at least are energized by it. On the first day of GA219, Cynthia Bolbach was elected Moderator for the next 2 years. She takes over the stole of Moderator from Bruce Reyes-Chow , who was one of the youngest Moderators in recent history (the first from my generation since I became a Presbyterian), and without a doubt the most technologically savvy. Chow did a great deal to revolutionize the role of the Moderator an...