The Backstory of General Assembly

Octo­ber 2012 Issue Table of Contents

Open­ing Editorials

• “Cau­tion and Com­mit­ment” by Chris Iosso
• “Young Adults: Will We Stay?” by Patrick David Heery

The Young Adult Perspective

• “Stay with Us” by Emily Morrell
• “Par­a­lyzed” by Rachel Helgeson
• “Gears, Forks, and Grease: Con­spir­ing in the Spirit with Church Polity” by Dylan Rooke
  
  See also young adults report­ing from GA: Alex Becker, Sara Dor­rien, Elisha Baskin, and Patrick Heery

The Com­mit­tee Mod­er­a­tor Perspective

• “For Where Your Trea­sure Is, There Your Heart Will Be Also” by Joann  Hae­jong Lee
• “Com­mu­nion, Keno­sis, and Change: Same Sex Mar­riage at the Gen­eral Assem­bly” by Aimee Moiso
• “Peace­mak­ing: Not Just for Gov­ern­ments, for Peo­ple Too” by Laura Phillips
• “Social Jus­tice Issues at the 2012 Gen­eral Assem­bly” by Nancy Ramsay

A Story Unfold­ing: Report­ing from the Floor of GA

• “Israeli Woman Says Divest­ment Is Part of Her Jew­ish Iden­tity” by Patrick David Heery, inter­view­ing Elisha Baskin
• “Pres­by­ter­ian Gen­eral Assem­bly Com­mit­tee Rec­om­mends Divest­ment” by Sara B. Dorrien
• “Just Polity” by Alex Becker
• “Tes­ti­mony: World of Hurt, Word of Life” by Rev. Peter Nimmo
• “The Church of Holy Chaos: LGBTQ Equal­ity” by Patrick David Heery
• “What Dif­fer­ence Does One Word Make? – Usury or ‘Exces­sive Inter­est’ in Hei­del­berg Cat­e­chism Ques­tion 110” by Chris Iosso

A Story Ended: Reflect­ing Back on What Hap­pened and Why

• “Caught Between Promise and Pru­dence: Why GA Voted Against Divest­ment” by Robert Trawick
• “Invest­ment ver­sus Boy­cott: Impor­tant Facts to Con­sider” by Pres­by­te­ri­ans for Mid­dle East Peace
• “Boy­cotting and Divest­ing from Occu­pa­tion: Con­fes­sions of an Occa­sional Pres­by­ter­ian” by Robert B. Ross
• “A Word to the PC(USA) and the Course of Jus­tice” by Rifat Odeh Kassis
• “My Dreams for an HIV Com­pe­tent Church” by Emily Proctor

Preach­ing the Story

• “O Church, What Does the Lord Require of You” by Rev. Randy Bush

The Next Story

• “Dream, PC(USA)!” by Emily Morgan
• “Will the Pres­by­ter­ian Church (U.S.A.) Become a Peace Church?” by Sara Dorrien
• “Next Steps for Boy­cott: An Open Let­ter to Pres­by­ter­ian Clergy” from two Jew­ish social jus­tice advo­cates, Rae Abileah and Ariel Vegosen
• “220th GA Health­care Insur­ance Res­o­lu­tion Deep­ens Fam­ily Dilemma” by Bebb Stone

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Com­pre­hen­sive Digest of Social Wit­ness at the 220th PC(USA) Gen­eral Assembly