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When accountability is needed, Presbyterian governance can diffuse responsibility

Between convoluted committees and social media noise, it is hard to have an honest conversation about accountability, writes Grace Presbytery Stated Clerk Kyle Walker. And following the selection of Judges 19 for January’s exegesis exam, we need to have that conversation.

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If Presbyterians are excellent at anything, it is the creation of protracted committee structures and processes that would wow even the most skilled parliamentarians. We Presbyterians, after all, puff out our chests and say that it is our historic church government structure that was the blueprint for the U.S. constitutional government following our 1776 revolution that many British, even King George III, called “The Presbyterian...

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