by Brian Ellison | Jun 20, 2018 | 223rd GA (2018), PC(USA) History & Polity, Uncategorized
It is a new day in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)! Today, commissioners to the 223rd General Assembly (2018) approved two historic overtures. One affirms and celebrates the gifts of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the church. Another...
by Brian Ellison | Jan 26, 2017 | PC(USA) History & Polity
The 221st General Assembly (2014) approved this commissioners’ resolution: Given the global crisis for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons and their families in eighty-one countries where homosexuality is illegal and the impact of persecution...
by Brian Ellison | Sep 30, 2016 | PC(USA) History & Polity
The Covenant Network joins with the PCUSA’s Advocacy Committee on Racial Ethnic Concerns in lamenting that “Ours is a nation entrenched in systems of privilege and power that perpetuate racial injustice.” ACREC, declaring that “as people of...
by Brian Ellison | May 4, 2016 | PC(USA) History & Polity, Personal Testimony
By Kenneth Cuthbertson, HR (all rights reserved) I want to start by saying that I am writing this “op-ed” piece totally unsolicited, and offering it to my friends at Covenant Network. I have been saddened, though not surprised, by the painful reactions of some in the...
by Brian Ellison | Nov 20, 2015 | Covenant Network News, PC(USA) History & Polity, Personal Testimony
by Rosemary Bledsoe I was Moderator of the Evangelism Committee of San Francisco’s Old First Presbyterian Church in the 1990’s when Tim Hart-Andersen was pastor. One of the new members we welcomed early in his pastorate was Pam Byers. She had just moved from New York...
by Brian Ellison | Nov 10, 2015 | Covenant Network News, PC(USA) History & Polity
On Saturday morning at the 2015 Covenant Conference, national organizer Tricia Dykers Koenig offered an early look at the Covenant Network’s priorities at the 222nd General Assembly (2016), which will meet next June in Portland, Oregon: We have a...
