TEs Job Dalomba and Wilson Van Hooser discuss their journey to observe the Sabbath and to rejoice in the rest God provides.

Is the Alliance for Mission & Renewal reusing old feminist arguments from the PCUSA and CRC for the current debate in the PCA?Is there an attempt to politicize RPR? TEs David Hall and Stephen O'Neill weigh in.

TEs Scott Cook & David Strain discuss the social pressures that led the ARP & RPCNA to begin ordaining women as well as their own history in denominations that ordain women. David Strain is the author of another overture clarifying the principles of our polity. Missippi Valley Presbytery also sent up an overture calling the PCA to join with other NAPARC communions to seek revival in our land and churches.

The Alliance for Mission and Renewal, a progressive advocacy group within the PCA, published a resource list for women in ministry. The panel of TEs Nate Xanders and Zach Garris assesses the resources and considers whether they conform to the historic practice, theology, and polity of the PCA. https://a4mr.substack.com/p/a-pastoral-resource-list-on-women

TEs Thomas Rickard & Samuel Brewer join to provide clarity and context for the ongoing discussion in the PCA regarding women "deacons" and "deaconesses in the PCA. All this amid dueling proposals from presbyteries. Some presbyteries seek to strengthen the PCA's commitment to men only ordination, others propose allowing women to be ordained to the diaconate.

Has a new day dawned in the PCA with the nomination of TE Fred Greco to serve as Stated Clerk? If elected, will TE Greco serve more as a mailman or a mascot for the PCA? The panel discusses the reasons for TE Chapell's unusually short tenure as Stated Clerk as well as two new overtures from Northwest Georgia Presbytery; one that seeks to address creative and imaginary titles for non-ordained people another seeks to expand Ruling Elder Participation at General Assembly.

TEs Job dalomba & Seth Miller, REs Matt Lee & Justen Ellis, Senior Correspondent Zoe Schimke Miller

TEs Chas. Stover & Thos. Rickard along with RE Tim Rice join to analyze the "PCA Prayer and Lament" Document. Is it a biblical lament or merely another progressive airing of grievances?

https://www.pcaprayerandlament.com

https://cstover.substack.com/p/lamentable-slander

https://pcapolity.com/2026/01/01/a-presbyterian-call-to-prayer-lament/

https://medium.com/@thomas.rickard/response-to-pca-prayer-and-lament-fd5266704b8c

PCA TE Dr Scott Cook rehearses last year's controversies with MNA and looks to the future of this vital PCA Committee to outline a path forward for the next coordinator to both be effective and avoid being a source of division and contention within the Assembly.

https://pcapolity.com/2025/10/28/the-next-coordinator-of-mna/

TE Ken Wojnarowski joins the program to discuss recent holiday advice from the PCA's Refugee & Immigrant Ministry that was picked up by Conservative Twitter. Was the advice all that controversial? A judgment of charity suggests it was not, but does raise concerns when viewed in the wider context.

TE Thomas Rickard, clerk of Westminster Presbytery, overviews the 17(!) Overtures sent to PCA General Assembly from his presbytery.