The Alliance for Mission and Renewal Podcast

The 53rd PCA General Assembly brought record numbers of overtures, voting delays, and several significant decisions—but it also revealed something more encouraging. In this conversation, Derek Radney, Geoff Ziegler, and Eric Bonkovsky reflect on why the Assembly ultimately fostered confidence rather than anxiety, how face-to-face statesmanship prevailed over online controversy, what the Assembly’s...

Join Derek Radney, Steve Tipton, David Coffin, and Howie Donahoe for a roundtable discussion exploring the overtures and key questions facing the PCA ahead of the 2026 General Assembly. In Part 3, the panel discusses the judicial, administrative, and polity overtures under consideration this year. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b...

Derek Radney, Steve Tipton, David Coffin, and Howie Donahoe join for round two of a roundtable discussion exploring the overtures and key questions facing the PCA ahead of the 2026 General Assembly. In Part 2, the panel discusses women as deacons, the Danvers Statement, the Lord’s Supper, among other topics. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

Derek Radney speaks with Nate Shurden, Joel St. Clair, and Chad van Dixhoorn about the Directory for Worship and the work of the Ad Interim Committee. The conversation covers the committee’s process, the historical Reformed background of the directory, and the hope that it will serve the worship, unity, and long-term health of the PCA. Derek Radney has served as a pastor at Trinity Church (PCA) in...

Join Derek Radney, Steve Tipton, David Coffin, and Howie Donahoe for a roundtable discussion exploring the overtures and key questions facing the PCA ahead of the 2026 General Assembly. In Part 1, the panel discusses the growing number of overtures, proposed changes to PCA procedures, and the broader challenges facing the denomination. We will be releasing two more videos, as a part of this series...

In this interview, Derek Radney speaks with Rev. David Richter, co-chair of the board of the Alliance for Mission and Renewal, about the AMR board’s recent statement and the season facing the PCA. Drawing from a year of listening across the denomination, the conversation addresses concerns about tone, trust, and trajectory, and introduces a vision for renewal rooted in a “confessional-missional ce...

In this conversation, Derek Radney (Trinity Church PCA, Winston-Salem) sits down with Rev. Charles McGowan—AMR advisory board member, PCA pastor emeritus, former Moderator of the PCA General Assembly (1996), and founder of the McGowan Global Institute—to hear a firsthand account of the forces that shaped the PCA’s founding and the hopes that animated its early leaders. McGowan traces God’s provide...

In a time of growing polarization within the PCA, questions about our identity have taken on new urgency. In this conversation with Derek Radney, historian and pastor Sean Michael Lucas revisits the denomination’s founding vision and considers how a clearer grasp of our past can shape an even more faithful future. Conversations about the PCA’s future often hinge on competing stories about its past...

In this Three Question Series interview from the Alliance for Mission and Renewal, Chris Gordon sits down with Denine Blevins , Executive Director of Parakaleo —a ministry that supports women serving on church-planting teams around the world. Denine shares stories of how God is meeting the often-overlooked needs of church planters’ wives and women in ministry. She brings hard-earned wisdom as she...

Preaching in a fractured world requires more than clarity—it requires wisdom. In this conversation, pastor and author Zack Eswine, draws on his years at Riverside Church and teaching at Covenant Seminary to explore how preachers can move beyond “what is true and what to do” into a richer range of moods—questions, imaginings, longings, and hopes—that mirror the wisdom and gentleness of Jesus. This...

In this episode, Christine Gordon interviews Judie Puckett about the Shepherdess Ministry and Chapelgate Presbyterian Church Watch the video below. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit a4mr.substack.com

In this episode, pastor Aaron Chung explores how the ordinary rhythms of church life—especially presiding and preaching—can become powerful tools for mission. Rather than choosing between reaching the lost and discipling the saved, he offers practical ways churches can do both, using clear communication, cultural awareness, and intentional formation to engage both believers and skeptics. Here is t...

This is the third part of last year’s roundtable overtures discussion leading up to the 2025 General Assembly. We’re re-releasing this discussion as part of AMR’s preparation for the 2026 General Assembly. Watch the video here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit a4mr.substack.com

This is the second part of last year’s roundtable overtures discussion leading up to the 2025 General Assembly. We're re-releasing this discussion as part of AMR’s preparation for the 2026 General Assembly. Watch the video here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit a4mr.substack.com

This episode launches the Alliance for Mission and Renewal’s Overtures Discussion Series, featuring a conversation originally recorded in connection with the 2025 General Assembly. In anticipation of the 2026 General Assembly coming up this summer, we are re-releasing last year’s Overtures Roundtable discussion with Fred Greco, David Coffin, Howie Donahoe, and Joel St. Clair. This is part one of a...

In this episode of Three Questions , Katie Polski shares the unexpected path that led her into church music ministry—from hiding her piano skills as a student athlete, to rediscovering music years later when her husband planted a church in St. Louis. Now serving as music director and special events coordinator at Trinity Church, she reflects on what it means to lead “Christ-centered and hospitable...

In this warm conversation with Mike Khandjian, Elliott Cherry and Michael Keller reflect on the rare gift of deep friendship in ministry—how it began through shared humor and fast connection, how it grew through honesty, challenge, and repeated time together, and why friendships like this are both costly and indispensable. Along the way, they talk about pastoral loneliness, the freedom of being fu...

In this conversation, Russ Whitfield talks with Aaron Chung and Paul Kim about the calling, craft, and challenges of preaching in today’s world. Together they reflect on what makes a faithful sermon, how they prepare week to week, how preaching speaks to both believers and skeptics, and what encouragement they would offer to fellow pastors laboring in difficult ministry contexts. Here is the origi...