Benjamin Perry @ben-perry ?

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    Benjamin Perry wrote a new post, Government Response to Standing Rock: An Affront to Religious Freedom 8 years, 4 months ago

    Before I traveled to the Oceti Sakowin camp, I viewed the events unfolding on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota primarily as an environmental protest. This is largely the frame used by the media: […]

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    Benjamin Perry wrote a new post, Faith in the Public Square – A Time for Choosing 8 years, 6 months ago

    In March 1948, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr graced the cover of Time. His appearance came at the end of two decades in which Niebuhr had risen to cultural prominence not just as a religious thinker, but also as […]

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    Benjamin Perry wrote a new post, Divesting from the Sins of Our Past 8 years, 10 months ago

    Climate change has quickly emerged as one of the world’s greatest threats. You only need to turn on the television or peruse a newspaper to see the devastating effects on environments and communities around t […]

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    Benjamin Perry wrote a new post, Muzzling the Word of God 9 years, 6 months ago

    A Response to the Foothills Presbytery Overtures

    I try to avoid getting bogged down in the details of church polity.

    Generally, this is because I think it leads us to spend too much time looking inward and […]

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      Barbara Kellam-Scott replied 9 years, 6 months ago

      Thank you so much for calling these proposals to my attention, Benjamin. Not that I can really fear that they’ll be approved, but really, what disruption! Better to set the themes for Big Tent than to turn GA into something between a rubber stamp and a plain waste of money because it can do nothing. That GA is the council of commissioners from other councils, as presbyteries are councils of commissioners from congregations, does not put GA over particular churches, but gives us a life as a connectional community. How sad that some of our body should so grasp at straws.

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      Carolyn George replied 9 years, 6 months ago

      There s no evidence that the PCUSA has been following God’s call anyway; frankly it has strayed horribly. The denomination is dying, General Assembly is a waste of time, talent, energy and money. Let the denomination fade away and let’s be grateful that there are parts of the Body of Christ that are truly following God’s call.