The Perambulant Presbyterian

NAPARC ECUEMENALIST. Currently OPC. Supralapsarian. Old Light/Old School. Kuyper. Bavinck. Torrance. Calvin. Vos. Machen. Van Til. My Pastors.

[Eli McGowan @elimcgowan]

“One friend and I were reminiscing about the way we used to turn everything into a joke-every mass murder in history, every form of oppression. Taking anything too seriously meant risking ridicule, being branded as some kind of stuck-up loser. The great irony, of course, was that so much of our politics centered around lamenting the loss of meaning in the Western world, even as we stripped every major historical event and tradition of its gravity ourselves, reducing everything to punchlines.”
— @Lauren_Southern

[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

@elimcgowan Share your address with me! I'll come hang out!

[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

@JayCCalhoun @elimcgowan @CovenantReform2 What. Are. You. On. About.

I ask this is all seriousness, are you being obtuse or do you seriously not understand the difference?

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

Tonight's minister for the PCA GA worship service is Greg Lawrence, "head pastor" of Community Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Louisville.

That name rang a bell. I had to go back to 2008-11 for the context. He was one of a very few ministers in the PCA who was actually tried by the Siouxlands Presbytery for advocating the Federal Vision theology. He was acquitted despite the fact that the committee who investigated him found a "strong presumption" of guilt. Behind that was a 2008 complaint re Lawrence's theology, which complaint reached GA. The SJC ordered that Lawrence be retried. He was acquitted again. An complaint was filed, heard by the SJC and was denied 2017.

https://t.co/bfCftdmu9Q

Fast forward to 2026. TE Lawrence is in Louisville. Maybe everything has changed and all the questions have been cleared up? When I look at the church's website, however, I find lots of reasons to be concerned:

• Recommendations of several writings by the Federal Visionist writer Rich Lusk (CREC);
• A recommendation of CREC pastor Jeff Meyers' book on worship;
• A recommendation of a work by federal visionist James Jordan (who's ecclesiastical affiliation is unknown);
• A recommendation of a work on baptism by FV advocate and CREC pastor Mark Horne;
• A link to Canon Press (the publishing house of Doug Wilson );
• A link to Theopolis Institute;
• A link to American Reformer.

Maybe it's all perfectly innocent but these are the resources that dominate the "resources" page on the church's website.

https://t.co/jyQPV5YIW1

Were someone asking my advice about whether they should attend that congregation, who features those resources, I would say certainly not.

[Zoe Miller @zoeschimke]

“Call the question, Anakin….”

[Hilaire Nereus @HilaireNereus]

Brian Sauve says "obviously" being "unequally yoked" applies to Christians marrying unbelievers, but it "applies to a MILLION other things as well; like race, culture"

Who else adds to Paul's actual words in 2 Cor 6 this way?

The book "Sword of Christ" by Antelope Hill

[John Reasnor @johnandrewwords]

Turns out the recent Nazi scandal is also Tim Keller’s fault.

[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

@JoshuaBarzon Dude this is pedaled by conspiracy theorists. It's not true. It's igneous rock.

[Eli McGowan @elimcgowan]

Ogden split with Moscow and the CREC over Hitler video edits they kept celebrating.

They just made a new one with footage of a Nazi calling Hitler his hero.

[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

@matt_everhard @MikeWingerii I would love to have the NET as well.

[Υουκε 🌿 @lagracelaverite]

A story in three parts. From concern to praise.

1. In March 2022, Zachary Garris’ Reformation Zion published a book by kinist Adi Schlebusch, Director and Senior Researcher of the Pactum Institute, where white supremacist and neo-Nazi “pastor” Michael Spangler wrote a series of articles on “Christian Race Realism” as a Research Fellow.

https://t.co/KYv8O7KvD0
https://t.co/mrrxtcJSRE
https://t.co/U7hICHluLe
https://t.co/sJ1O4bpCP6

By October 2022, Zachary Groff was made aware of Garris’ (and Sean McGowan’s) association with Schlebusch. At the time, Groff claimed both Garris and McGowan condemned racism and kinism, whilst saying he was prepared to escalate the concern to the Editorial Board of Presbyterian Polity if necessary.

2. In June 2024, Garris liked a tweet* from “James Kirkpatrick” (a pseudonym for Kevin DeAnna) that read “Obesity is a moral failing. Racism is not.” Screenshots of this interaction have since been shared on this platform.

DeAnna is a white nationalist and white identitarian. He has a long history of writing for white nationalist outlets including Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance, VDARE, Richard Spencer’s Radix Journal, and Greg Johnson’s Counter-Currents.

DeAnna also hosts American Renaissance’s Identity Politics podcast. His X bio includes the acronym “AJAB,” a far-right antisemitic variation of ACAB meaning “All Jews Are Bastards.”

3. On Friday, 29 May 2026, Groff publicly praised Garris, likening him to Presbyterian hero J. Gresham Machen.

This public praise comes despite the fact that Garris still publishes Schlebusch’s book and agrees with the belief that “racism is not a moral failing.”

Naturally, this stark shift raises serious questions about Groff’s 2022 statements and where he truly stands on racism and related issues.

The pastor who was once prepared to escalate concerns over his friends’ far-right associations is now unapologetically praising Garris as a model minister.

So the question is, what changed?

*In addition to this tweet, Garris has liked other racist and antisemitic tweets, including one from DeAnna implying that he does not like to speak to black people, and one from Stew Peters showing an antisemitic meme portraying Jewish people as “tunnel rats.”

[John Reasnor @johnandrewwords]

On @ZacharyGarris, Racism, and the PCA:

@jake_meador, publishing at @mereorthodoxy, has done an excellent job at explaining my thoughts on this current controversy.

I agree with everything in his article (I’ll link below). Heartedly.

First, he gives an overview of the various public issues that Garris has. And then he gives an honest assessment of the recent trial and the need for the PCA to have good churchmen competent in procedure. As Jake says, we still don’t know all the details.

Some highlights.

“His record is quite clear. Garris has a direct commercial relationship to a self-described kinist in Schlebusch. Garris has co-authored work with an ethnonationalist in Wolfe. And we see that Garris’s own commercial associates, Schlebusch and Justice, are closely tied to a self-described white supremacist and defrocked minister.”

“Even if you only considered his associations with Schlebusch, Wolfe, Isker, Webbon, and Spangler and set that next to the 2025 General Assembly’s call to repent of “any who would promote or associate themselves” with racist teaching, Garris is in violation. He has, since the church adopted that statement last summer, co-authored a book with a man who, as noted above, says that Black people are a reliable source of criminality in the USA and who has suggested that inter-racial marriage is sinful—a position explicitly condemned by the PCA’s own past statements on the issue. That alone seems like a quite brazen and obvious act of defiance directed at last year’s General Assembly.”

“The challenge for the PCA is that the overwhelming majority of our teaching elders are simply ordinary pastors. They love to preach, to shepherd, and to evangelize. They are not terminally online. They do not know the ins and outs of esoteric political theology disputes. They are not kinists. And yet a sizable portion of our communion, precisely because of their admirable and good pietism, are radically unprepared to navigate the procedural rules that govern presbyterian churches. If it is accurate, as some have reported, that Garris’s defense was led by multiple lawyers while the prosecution in his case had no lawyers... well, there you have it.”

[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

@ScottC1517 Because revoice wasn't IN the PCA. And how are you defining liberals? This just cries of tu quoque

[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

@JulesDiner GPTS

[Eli McGowan @elimcgowan]

@XianNationalist @MissionaryJC3 @TexasPreacher @JesseWayne81 @ZacharyGarris We should see the whole indictment and trial transcript.

They could have picked truly unwholesome talk.

[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

@balltvols22 @irishpresby No, elders are and have always been held to a higher standard.

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[The Perambulant Presbyterian @PerambulantThe]

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