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December 2010

The Family of God, by Cliff Kirkpatrick

December 31, 2010

Friends in the Covenant Network, it is great to be here!  While I have appreciated being with you often in my role as Stated Clerk, it is nice to be here not because of my role, but because I believe in the cause – because this is my family! It is a special serendipity – [...]

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In Support of Amendment 10-A: Time to Move On

December 31, 2010

A recent post in The Presbyterian Outlook by Kirsten Kingdon, a CovNet Advisory Board member, a church Elder, and a Mom!

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Welcome to Three New Covenant Congregations

December 9, 2010

Covenant Network welcomes three new Covenant congregations whose sessions have affirmed the Call to Covenant Community in the past month: University Presbyterian Church of San Antonio, TX; Setauket Presbyterian Church of Setauket, NY; and Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church of Plainfield, NJ.

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Appeal of Prop 8 – Remarks at pre-trial rally

December 6, 2010

Byers to Prop 8 repeal rally: “My congregation and many, many of my clergy colleagues want the freedom to marry the couples we believe God has called together to make covenants of faithfulness to one another. . . . Overturning Prop 8 gives religious liberty to all congregations and clergy, rather than privileging one group over another.

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The Gospel of Kindness

December 6, 2010

Robert Dykstra: As I survey the stark detritus of the centuries-long theological rift between human sexuality and Christian charity, ,,, what seems clear to me now is that both in our personal lives and loves and in our Christian works and walks we must rejoin somehow our kindness with our desire.

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Executive Director Will Retire

December 1, 2010

PRESS RELEASE November 3, 2010 The board of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians has announced that its executive director, Pamela Byers, will retire in summer 2011. Byers has held the position since the founding of the Covenant Network in 1997. The group was originally formed to remove the constitutional language about ordination standards that indirectly [...]

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