PCUSA's Kirkpatrick will not seek new term: Will continue with World Alliance of Reformed Churches
Clifton Kirkpatrick, the top official who has led the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) through seemingly interminable social-theological disputes over homosexuality, scripture and church law since 1996, has announced that he will not run for a fourth term as stated clerk in June.
“This has been the best job I ever had” but one that also comes with “stresses and strains,” said Kirkpatrick, 62, who has served three four-year terms in the key post of the 3-million-member denomination based in Louisville, Kentucky.