The Westminster Standard

TEs Justin Borger and Samuel Brewer join to discuss to overtures seeking to bring the PCA BCO's Assistant Pastor position into greater conformity with the biblical principles of church government.

RE Mike Kennamer reports on the way MNA Disaster Response assists and equips local churches in ministering Christ in the midst of disasters.

TE Jeffrey Choi talks with TEs Thomas Rickard and Ryan Biese about a proposed overture to ordain women as deacons in the PCA.

TEs Joshua Walker, George Sayour, and Adam Parker weigh in on the usefulness and other ways to discourage ministerial burnout and promote longevity and productivity.

TE Chas. Stover calls brothers to live and minister with integrity rather than equivocation and effeminacy. His article highlights the progress the PCA has made toward purity over the last five years. https://cstover.substack.com/p/equivocation-is-unbecoming?r=9oyu5&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

TEs Matt Adams and Job Dalomba discuss what it means to be truly Reformed and Presbyterian rather than merely calvinistic. https://mdadams.substack.com/p/being-truly-presbyterian-and-reformed

TE Guy Waters discusses the biblical principles undergirding the ordination in the Presbyterian Church. https://gospelreformation.net/what-is-biblical-ordination/Nothing on this program should be construed as commentary on any matter pending or impending before the Standing Judicial Commission of the PCA General Assembly.

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 la...

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 p...

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-...

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.

TEMatt Cline details his involvement in the #SavethePCA movement and the urgency of maintaining our polity with integrity in order to promote purity and peace in the PCA. https://x.com/MrMRCline

TEs Andrew and Aaron Halbert talk about how God blesses and prospers the ordinary means of grace through church planting in Latin America .

REs Matt Lee and Justen Ellis discuss their recent articles assessing potential threats to the PCA and the credibility of reports regarding constitutional innovation and deviation. RE Lee: https://theaquilareport.com/the-foster-report-is-a-credible-report-functional-female-officers-in-the-pca/RE Ellis: https://pcapolity.com/2025/10/13/pca-threat-assessment/RE Donahoe's response: https://pcapol...

Mrs Benj. Dunson and Mrs Seth Miller going Drs Benj. Dunson and Scott Cook as well as TE Ryan Biese to discuss the role of women in the Church and whether the historic polity and ministry of the Church leave women on the sidelines. Mrs Dunson's article: https://americanreformer.org/2025/10/sidelined/https://a4mr.org/pursuing-a-unified-vision-for-mission-and-renewal-in-the-pca/ https://www.drop...

In this Reformation Week episode, the panel discusses the importance of maintaining a distinction between Romanism and the True Reformed Religion. TEs Thomas Rickard & John Orlando join with Rev Bart Gingerich. https://pcapolity.com/2025/09/13/striking-the-word-alone-the-error-of-rome/ https://wng.org/opinions/religious-liberalism-at-work-1757474679

Pastor David Hall previews this year's conference and reviews his wife's article on Alongside Care published on Ref21

The BPC votes to request to join NAPARC. Pastors Kevin M. Backus and Doug Douma join the program to discuss!

TE James Baird and Prof Michael J. Lynch, PhD discuss the calling of the magistrate to maintain piety, justice, and peace within the commonwealth as described in Baird's forthcoming book: https://press.founders.org/shop/king-of-kings/

TE Matt Adams reflects on his tenure as GA NomCom chairman and an article he wrote on niceness and the danger of therapeutic language. https://gospelreformation.net/when-therapeutic-language-affects-the-gospel/