Tag: Liam Goligher

Lack of adultery charges against Liam Goligher disrespects his wife and others and makes a mockery of the PCA’s claim to biblical authority, even as cheap grace abounds

June 14, 2025 Anglican Watch 4 comments

Following an Anglican Watch report on PCA pastor Liam Goligher and his guilty plea to sex in a public park with married church member Susan Elzey, a lengthy but illusory disciplinary process against Goligher played out within the Philadelphia Presbytery. The process, marked by multiple lies by Goligher about his

Tenth Presbyterian continues efforts at impression management, even as it ignores its organizational corruption

April 7, 2025 Anglican Watch 5 comments

Tenth Presbyterian is again playing games with its members. In an email dated April 5, 2025, Tenth Presbyterian (PCA) in Philadelphia announced that all active ruling members will resign at the end of the calendar year. While that sounds like good news at first blush, the reality is far different,

Tenth Presbyterian’s “confession” is nothing but badly done church theater and cheap grace

March 1, 2025 Anglican Watch 3 comments

Tenth Presbyterian (PCA), located in Philadelphia, Pa., recently held a congregational meeting to discuss the GRACE report about abuse at the church and for leadership to “confess” to its role in abuse at the church. As this publication had predicted, the meeting turned out to be nothing but badly done

Update on Tenth Presbyterian: Alleged abuser and rape cover-up guy Bruce McDowell remains welcome, preaches at church

November 11, 2024 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

In matters of church abuse, we can loosely organize perpetrators into two categories: Those who actively abuse others and those who refuse to act to end abuse. In that regard, Anglican Watch is deeply concerned that Bruce McDowell, a former minister at Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian, recently preached at the church,

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