Edmonton Session to Clerk of Presbytery. We have been cited a second time to appear before presbytery, and if we do not appear we will be charged with contumacy. We understood this would be acceptable to presbytery since Dr. Crick would be attending that meeting of presbytery by means of conference call as well. However, we were not contacted to set up a conference call.
Contumacy implies an obstinate refusal to hear or listen.
For the record, we were willing then to speak with you, and are still willing to do so. This is an official response to you from the Clerk of the Presbytery. . . . We call the presbyteryUs attention to the fact that the presbytery has not yet charged us with a sin for which to repent. We have discussed this as one of the significant issues for not attending the meeting at Rowlette and Charlotte in recent session meetings as well. In all previous meetings of presbytery, our representatives have traveled by far the furthest distance and have incurred the most significant costs.