Editor’s Note: Registration is required to view this story in its entirety. By Delaware Law Weekly The Delaware Court of Chancery wrestled with whether it had the authority to stop members of the White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church from severing their ties with the ministry overseeing the Presbyterian faith throughout the country and align…
(Note: Free registrations for web site) By Jeff Mordock The Delaware Court of Chancery will be looking at a 263-year-old deed and the largely undefined area of religious corporation to resolve a dispute between the White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church and the governing body for Delaware’s Presbyterian congregations that stemmed from the admittance of gay…
By Nichole Dobo WILMINGTON, Del. — Alice Winchester has attended the same church for more than 50 years. She was there in the beginning, when the Rev. Richard K. Hutchison came around knocking on doors in the city’s northeast section to organize a new congregation. They didn’t have a church so they worshipped in a…