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Category: Clergy

Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“Schism in Lutheran church raises scriptural, financial concerns”

A May 31, 2011, story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about splits in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after its 2009 decision to allow some openly gay clergy. According to the story, the ELCA says that 444 parishes voted to leave after the decision but that the ELCA has also started more than 300 new churches.

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Updated on Jul 2, 2013. Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“Stances of Faiths on LGBT Issues: Episcopal Church”

The Human Right’s Campaign has a run-down of LGBT issues in the Episcopal Church.

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Updated on Jul 11, 2013. Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“Following Jesus While Rejecting the Bible? Yet Another Tragedy in Mainline Protestantism”

Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has a column on the Presbyterian Church USA decision.

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Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“The Moral Awakening of Mainstream Christianity”

The Rev. Janet Edwards, a Presbyterian minister who underwent a church trial for conducting a marriage ceremony for two women, has a Huffington Post column on the gay ordination policy.

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Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“The Road to Gay Ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)”

An essay in Christianity Today by S. Donald Fortson III, professor of church history and practical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, N.C., looking at the long history of this issue in Christianity.

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Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“PC(USA) relaxes constitutional prohibition of gay and lesbian ordination”

Read the May 11, 2011, Presbyterian News Service story on the vote and its implications.

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Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“Renewal Groups Strategize after the PC(USA) Drops Celibacy Clause for Gay Clergy”

A story in the July 2011 issue of Christianity Today.

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Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“Minister who presided at same-sex union gets 20-day suspension”

A Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article about Rev. Amy DeLong’s punishment.

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Updated on Jul 2, 2013. Posted on Jul 2, 2013

“Lesbian minister found guilty of presiding over same-sex union”

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about the verdict in Rev. Amy DeLong’s trial.

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