by Amy Cerniglia | Feb 17, 2023 | Covenant Network News, Gender, News, Sexuality, Theology
We are constantly expanding our resource pages on our website to provide helpful information for churches. If you haven’t recently seen the “Becoming a Welcoming Church” page, it provides practical steps your church can take to more fully welcome LGBTQIA+ people...
by Brian Ellison | Jun 8, 2018 | 223rd GA (2018), Theology, Uncategorized
As we approach the 223rd General Assembly (2018) in St. Louis, the Covenant Network of Presbyterians is sharing some of our hopes for the business before this Assembly. We hope that commissioners, delegates and friends across the church will carefully consider the...
by Brian Ellison | Feb 23, 2017 | Featured Categories, Featured Resourcing, Sexuality, Theology, Uncategorized
The mission of the Covenant Network is to help create a more just and generous church throughout all of its congregations and councils. When we are being honest with ourselves, we must recognize that much of that work for our 20 years of effort has focused on...
by Brian Ellison | Feb 3, 2016 | Biblical Interpretation, Theology
What does God require of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the 21st century? How do we live our faith as congregations of believers within an increasingly multicultural nation and world? What do we think and how do we feel about opportunities for crossing racial and...
by Brian Ellison | Sep 21, 2015 | Biblical Interpretation, Theology
Two professors at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Steven C. Roy and Robert J. Priest, are offering a course on “Contemporary Sexualities: Theological and Missiological Perspectives.” Their syllabus introduces the course: Profound cultural shifts in...
by Brian Ellison | Jul 16, 2015 | Biblical Interpretation, Marriage & Civil Unions, Personal Testimony, Theology
by Michael B. Regele Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2014. A book review by Tricia Dykers Koenig Love God with all you have and all you are, and love your neighbor as yourself. Are these two Great Commandments ever in conflict? Does God put people of faith in the position...
by Brian Ellison | Feb 18, 2015 | Biblical Interpretation, Personal Testimony, Theology
A Book Review by Tricia Dykers Koenig From Presbyterian pastor Chris Neufeld-Erdman, published by Cascade Books – A Table for All: How I Came to Understand the Gospel Means Full Inclusion of Gays and Lesbians. [Order here.] Written by a Christian leader with a...
by Brian Ellison | Jan 8, 2014 | Biblical Interpretation, Ordination Process, Theology
Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships, by James V. Brownson A book review by Tricia Dykers Koenig One of the resources suggested for further reading in the study of “Christian Marriage in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)” prepared by the Office...
by Brian Ellison | Jun 15, 2013 | Marriage & Civil Unions, PC(USA) History & Polity, Theology
The Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Cuthbertson is a Minister of the Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a scholar of church history and historical theology, and a spiritual director. He is a native of Kansas and a graduate of Sterling College, Gordon-Conwell...
by Brian Ellison | Jun 15, 2013 | Marriage & Civil Unions, PC(USA) History & Polity, Theology
By Kenneth L. Cuthbertson, PhD “Marriage is to be between one Man and one Woman: neither is it lawful for any Man to have more then one Wife, nor for any Woman to have more then one Husband, at the same time.” – from The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter XXIV,...
