By Erik Alsgaard, the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church. The Board of Ordained Ministry of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, meeting last month, recommended Tara “T.C.” Morrow for commissioning as a Provisional Deacon. Morrow is a woman married to another woman. The Board is making public what is normally a confidential personnel matter in an…
By Tony Breeden, Defending Genesis. Presbyterian John Shuck is at it again. He’s trying to get the PCUSA to affirm theClergy Letter Project and Evolution Sunday. Again. His last attempt was shot down 49-5. And that’s not all. According to an article he wrote in Presbyterian Voices for Justice [Network News – Fall 2015], he…
Carmen Fowler LaBerge is the President of the Presbyterian Lay Committee and Executive Editor of its digital publication. She has been a speaker at The Truth for a New Generation national apologetics conference and serves as chairperson of Common Ground Christian Network as well as a member of the board of the National Association of Evangelicals. She will be preaching on June 26th at the EPC’s…
From its inception ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians has advocated an ethic and practice of focusing on the positive possible future and not the negative experiential past. However, building bridges over troubled waters is treacherous and provides no guarantee that all will arrive safely on the other side. The 2012 dismissal of the…
By the BBC The Church of Scotland’s ruling General Assembly has voted to allow actively gay men and women to become ministers. Assembly commissioners in Edinburgh voted in favour of a proposal that allows liberal parishes to opt out of the church’s policy on homosexuality. Legislation will be drafted for next…
By Stephen Magagnini More than 200 Presbyterian congregations nationwide have been torn asunder over the Presbyterian Church USA’s new rules and the ordination of its first gay minister. The rift has resulted in lawsuits, sold churches, broken friendships and scattered congregations. The Presbyterian Church, with roughly 3 million congregants across the country, has attracted independent…
By Craig Brown Up to 50 congregations may leave the Church of Scotland if the General Assembly votes next month to allow the ordination of openly gay ministers. Two congregations and a number of ministers have already left over the issue. Now the Kirk is braced for a potential hemorrhage of evangelical members if the…
On Sunday, Feb. 24, ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians ordained its first pastor into the denomination, Rev. Jennifer Graffius, the Director of Chapel at Fuller Theological Seminary. She joins several dozen pastors who have already transferred into ECO, but Graffius is the first to complete the ordination process in the new Reformed denomination….