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Research Services: Two major departure eras for PCUSA, one is still ongoing

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A presentation given last October by current and former members of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s  Research Services concluded that a large majority of the congregations that have left the PCUSA since 2006 were conservative churches that “were tired of battling the more moderate majority over various issues, pre-eminent among them the question of ordination of…

The very first ‘Confessing church’ from Pennsylvania leaves PCUSA

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The Pennsylvania congregation that began the “confessing church” movement in 2001 is no longer part of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Summit Presbyterian Church, located north of Pittsburgh in Butler, Pa., finalized its dismissal agreement with Beaver-Butler Presbytery Sept. 11, five months after it was given approval to leave the PCUSA for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church…

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