Tag Archives: Presbyterian Church

Religion News Service reports: The pastor of Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church — an influential Presbyterian Church in America congregation — resigned after a past arrest for improper conduct along with another church leader was made public. Liam Goligher, who had been pastor of Tenth since 2011, resigned on Dec. 1, according to a statement from the church. His resignation was …

Chattanooga’s NBC affiliate reports: A former Walker County deacon is facing a laundry list of charges, from Sexual Battery to Exploitation and Intimidation of disabled adults. Deputies say this has stemmed over the last two to five years. Deputies picked up 75-year-old Dennis Laman on June 2nd, and he’s been in the county jail since. Officials with the Walker County …

NBC News reports: Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalization of homosexuality on Sunday and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches. The three Christian leaders spoke out on LGBTQ rights during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference returning home from South Sudan, where they took part in a …

The National Black Church Initiative today declared that they are furious with the Presbyterian Church’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage. They are now totally no longer besties and have “broken fellowship” with them. Whatever that means. Via press release: This arbitrary change of Holy Scripture is a flagrantly pretentious and illegitimate maneuver by a body that has no authority whatsoever …

The largest denomination of the Presbyterian Church tonight voted to amend its constitution to approve of same-sex marriage. Via the New York Times: The final approval by a majority of the church’s 171 regional bodies, known as presbyteries, enshrines a change recommended last year by the church’s General Assembly. The vote amends the church’s constitution to broaden marriage from being …

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“If the church can’t find its moral compass, how on earth do we expect the culture to? That was the question on most people’s minds after the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted Thursday to walk away from the Bible’s authority on marriage. By a lopsided 71-29%, the liberal denomination threw its support behind the redefinition of marriage, giving its shrinking congregations …

Via the Associated Press: The top legislative body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has taken major steps toward recognizing gay marriage. The General Assembly voted Thursday in favor of redefining Christian marriage in the church constitution as the union of “two people” instead of “a man and a woman.” The redefinition will take effect only if most of the 172 …