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A New Day for LGBTQIA People in the Church: General Assembly Unanimously Approves Overtures

A New Day for LGBTQIA People in the Church: General Assembly Unanimously Approves Overtures

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...
The Global Crisis for People Who Are LGBT and Their Families

The Global Crisis for People Who Are LGBT and Their Families

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...
ACREC: Calling all Presbyterians to action

ACREC: Calling all Presbyterians to action

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...
Overture 50… One Gay Man’s Reflection

Overture 50… One Gay Man’s Reflection

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...
Remembering Pam Byers

Remembering Pam Byers

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...
Progress, Pushback, Possibilities: A preliminary look at the 222nd GA

Progress, Pushback, Possibilities: A preliminary look at the 222nd GA

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...
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