PCA Stated Clerk Accidentally Leaks List of Denominational ‘Scandalizers.’ We List Them Here
The Stated Clerk of The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) just unleashed a fresh round of drama before the denomination’s upcoming General Assembly in June after he accidentally revealed a list of names of those he considered “scandalizers” who have either “left the faith, their family or taken their life.”
Bryan Chapell is the Stated Clerk of the PCA. A key leader in the conservative Presbyterian denomination, he serves as the chief administrative officer of the Assembly Committee, managing duties outlined in the Book of Church Order, Rules of Assembly Operations, and PCA Bylaws. Because the denomination doesn’t have a bishop or president, Chapell organizes denominational work and acts as the church’s primary spokesperson.
In a since-deleted interview with Collin Hansen of TGC, Chapell holds up a note and reveals:
Collin…I’m going to show this to you quickly. I keep the note on my desk. Those are the names of the scandalizers, the people who have invested hours every day attacking others for their supposed lack of
faithfulness, for their compromise, whose identity comes from scandalizing others.
And every name on that list has either left his family, left the faith, or taken his life. Every name on that list. It amazes me. I’ve done this for almost 50 years now, I’ve been in ordained ministry. And I can tell you almost with certainty: those who build their reputations on destroying the reputations of others
will end up with terribly dark lives.
You just cannot live in darkness in this segment of your life. “I’m gonna spend my life trying to make fun, mock, scandalize other people, but I’m gonna be tender and precious and kind with my wife and children.”
While he didn’t think his list it would be captured, it was, and the list of names are very interesting.
@BadlyObservaniens on X lists the ones he can make out.
Some folks on the list make sense and have indeed scandalized the denomination, such as Liam Goligher, who was revealed to have been in a sexual relationship with a woman not his wife, or Michelle Higgins, who went super progressive and started insisting “The Trinity is Queer”. Others, not so much.
Pastor Andy Webb reveals what likely got him placed on Chapell’s list while noting, “Rumors of my demise (or apostasy or divorce) have been greatly exaggerated!
Meanwhile, Hansen has taken down the episode, explaining:
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