The PCA gets some pub...and not the kind we frequent or own

Mother Jones, a liberal magazine, has done a profile on the religious right. While, I am impressed with the author's attempt to not lump all evangelicals together with Robertson, etc, I still feel that he needs to learn more about the PCA before declaring it a denomination infected with reconstructionism and giving the impression that we're all itching to institute the OT law for the US.


http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/12/a_nation_under_god.html

Reconstruction has slowly absorbed, congregation by congregation, the
conservative Presbyterian Church in America (not to be confused with the
progressive Presbyterian Church [USA]) and has heavily influenced others,
notably the Southern Baptists.

It would have been a good idea for him to actually check this assertion. I mean, it's not like the PCA has tens of thousands of congregations. We have under 2000 churches in the U.S., about 5,000 ordained ministers, 350,000 members, and 1 official seminary. One could look at the "about section" of the PCA homepage itself to see if we're conspiring to take over the country. One could talk to some professors of the official seminary. One could make a campus visit. One could view the PCA General Assemblies online to see what was actually discussed. More fact checking was needed in this area.

Again, I appreciate that the author sought to differentiate the so-called Religious Right viz a vi echatalogical views, however, I still believe he falls short and falls into the trap of just viewing groups only through a set of specific criteria rather than sort through the nuances that exist.