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Tips for your church in response to SCOTUS marriage ruling

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Scott J. Ward, is an attorney with the law firm of Gammon & Grange. He has years of demonstrated expertise in assisting people of religious conviction navigate the rough seas of an antagonistic cultural and legal climate. Here he offers a document entitled “Challenges to Religious Liberty: Practical Tips to Articulate Your Ministry’s Identity and…

Churches leave as denominations break their own rules

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By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra On the last Sunday in April, the roughly 450 members of University Reformed Church (URC) in East Lansing, Michigan, voted overwhelmingly to leave their denomination. One of the reasons: the Reformed Church in America’s wavering approach to same-sex marriages. The URC believes marriage is limited to a man and a woman….

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