by Amy Cerniglia | Aug 28, 2024 | Covenant Network News, Featured Resourcing, Gender, News, Sexuality, Theology
The Covenant Network has recently added several resources to support its mission of equipping PC(USA) congregations to create a church as just and generous as God’s grace. On the Engaging in Your Community resource page, visitors can find a new video series...
by Amy Cerniglia | Apr 1, 2024 | Covenant Network News, Gender, Sexuality, Theology, Uncategorized
In the Easter season, we celebrate the boundless love and transformative power of Jesus Christ’s resurrection. This year, Easter shared a date with Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, encouraging us to consider the special hope and affirmation that Easter...
by Amy Cerniglia | Sep 22, 2023 | Covenant Congregations, Covenant Network News, News, Ordination Process, Personal Testimony, Sexuality, Theology
This article was written by the Rev. TJ Remaley, pastor of Southminster Presbyterian Church and CNP Board member. Being bisexual is a blessing in my life. Actually, let me pause there for a moment. It’s not lost on me that even my ability to begin a blog post with...
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...
