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Shedding light on shadows: A GA overture advocates for transparency

The recently amended "Book of Order" mandates privacy protection for accused abusers, even when a case involves minors or adults who lack mental capacity. There’s a group wanting to change this, writes James S. Evinger.

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A committed cohort from multiple presbyteries is laboring to modify the Book of Order’s Church Disciple section. This surprises some colleagues. Skeptically, they ask, “Didn’t the church just adopt a major revision in 2023? Why this change?” Both are fair questions.

A General Assembly task force (appointed in 2016) drafted a revision of both the disciplinary and remedial case parts of the Book of Order, which was approved by the...

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