Wow!: At Boston-area church, a theology lab tackles complex topics with humility, curiosity
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on how one US church is attempting to give its church members – and other interested Christians – a broader understanding of their faith and the way Christianity is lived out in the world…
More than survival: For a small Chicago church, closing down was an act of faith
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on the closure of Grace Evangelical Covenant Church on Chicago’s North Side…
In the US, Evangelical Covenant Church joins list of Protestant denominations rebuking Doctrine of Discovery
RNS The Evangelical Covenant Church became the latest Protestant denomination in the United States to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, the theological justification that allowed the discovery and domination by European Christians of lands already inhabited by Indigenous peoples. Delegates at the Covenant Annual Connection voted overwhelmingly (84 per cent) on Friday to approve a resolution acknowledging […]
Essay: We can’t cancel ‘white Jesus’, but we can keep telling our church’s story
PAUL ROBINSON, executive minister of Love Mercy Do Justice of the Evangelical Covenant Church – the church that originally commissioned Warner Sallman’s famous blonde, blue-eyed image of Christ, responds to calls to cancel ‘white Jesus’…
US evangelical denomination expels entire congregation over LGBT policy
RNS For the first time in its 134-year history, the Evangelical Covenant Church has voted to remove a congregation from its roster over its position on LGBTQ inclusion. The vote to expel the First Covenant Church, a prominent and historic Minneapolis congregation, for being “out of harmony on human sexuality”, took place at the denomination’s […]