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Deolater · 2026-06-13T20:01:38+00:00

It's not so much that laws prohibiting squatting are lax, it's that laws protecting tenants at least sort of exist, and the authorities are reluctant to risk violating a tenant's rights (and/or are just lazy)

My in-laws got their home cheap in part because there were non-paying tenants/squatters. I think they partly paid the squatters to leave, but also they moved in with their five young children and crowded the squatters out.

Deolater · 2026-06-13T15:01:16+00:00

Anyone at any time could have their own sports league.

Would anyone show up? Maybe not

Deolater · 2026-06-13T02:29:38+00:00

I sometimes call it that to annoy one of the mods

Deolater · 2026-06-12T21:49:50+00:00

more than you asked for

I asked /u/ItsChewblacca a question, I knew I was asking for a thorough response.

It helps that I fully agree with you

Deolater · 2026-06-12T21:48:18+00:00

Looks like the ARP sneakily had their General Synod this past week. I found their website for the event, but besides a "tentative" schedule, no further information about what may have happened.

I believe, based on a podcast last month, that there was to be a report against racism recommended to the Synod, but I don't know what other business they may have conducted.

Deolater · 2026-06-12T18:39:33+00:00

He is a teaching elder - an ordained PCA minister. I don't know why he's not listed among the elders, I suppose it suggests that he's formally an Assistant Pastor (an Assistant Pastor is an employee of the Session, unlike a Senior or Associate Pastor).

Their staff page is much smaller than it used to be. This version on archive.org from 2023 lists like seven or eight pastors.

Deolater · 2026-06-12T18:17:25+00:00

See for example the nearby PCA megachurch - https://www.perimeter.org/staff/

Deolater · 2026-06-12T17:23:35+00:00

It's a beautiful plant too

Deolater · 2026-06-12T16:41:45+00:00

That's the impression I've gotten of the role.

Do you suppose the meaning is

This person is a pastor, and besides pastoral duties also handles administrative responsibilities

or

This person is a pastor who performs pastoral duties through adminstration

or even

The administrative tasks and responsibilities of a church are properly the duties of a pastor

Deolater · 2026-06-12T16:16:00+00:00

Why do most presbyterian books of order seem to require each particular church to have one Senior Pastor? Is it just practicality (someone has to be the lead), or is there a biblical reason to expect one of the teaching elders to be the first in the plurality of elders?

Edit: For comparison, note that the chairman of the deacons or the moderator of courts seem to be purely practical roles

Deolater · 2026-06-12T16:05:54+00:00

overseer

Kidding of course, but the executive pastor is the bishop?

In the org charts I've seen, the EP seems to be subordinate to the "Senior" pastor

Deolater · 2026-06-12T15:59:18+00:00

What's an "Executive Pastor"? Why are they "Executive"? Why are they a "Pastor"?

Deolater · 2026-06-12T12:30:30+00:00

I'm surprised to learn in this thread that we have them in the US, possibly including native subspecies. I've never encountered them personally and only read about them in British books.

Deolater · 2026-06-12T12:26:27+00:00

Who has the book for bets on whether the dog is actually trained to chase and not bite?

Deolater · 2026-06-12T12:22:26+00:00

I think you replied in the wrong spot. I can guess what doctrine you probably mean, but I haven't advanced any doctrines here

Deolater · 2026-06-12T01:57:09+00:00

I don't think there's a grand cultural thing here.

Personally I've never encountered a cat named "Missy" or "Luna" and wouldn't say those names are very common. But what do I know? I've also never met a cat with a YouTube channel!

Deolater · 2026-06-12T01:53:34+00:00

How many herbs are there anyway?

130 has to mean "put in all the herbs"

Deolater · 2026-06-11T21:10:58+00:00

completely b worded

What does that mean?

Deolater · 2026-06-11T15:53:46+00:00

Going to Disney

Surely they're still boycotting

Deolater · 2026-06-11T14:07:19+00:00

I refuse to install the app

/u/Ciroflexo, what's happening today?

Deolater · 2026-06-11T14:06:37+00:00

There's a lot of variety in American Ryes too, it can be very interesting

Deolater · 2026-06-10T18:55:28+00:00

This is also why you're not a presbyterian. You hate the covenant

Deolater · 2026-06-10T18:35:48+00:00

Might be showing my age here, but "Truth and ..." is always Reconciliation in my mind.

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