Presbyterian Denomination Considers Barring Ordination of Clergy Who Aren’t LGBTQ-Affirming+ Make it Non-Negotiable
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Protestia ^
| March 20, 2024 | staff
The scant number of remnant congregations within the PCUSA may soon dip even further after it was revealed the damnable denomination is taking up the legislation this summer in Salt Lake City at its upcoming 226th General Assembly that would prohibit the ordination of clergy candidates who aren’t LGBTQ-affirming. It’s the natural
progression for the PCUSA, which has denigrated to one massive pen for goats run by spiritual criminals and hirelings. From Church Fasting from ‘Whiteness’ During Lent to Church Releases ‘Transgendered’ Remix of ‘Be Thou My Vision,’ to Pro-Abortion Pastrix Says Stories of Jonah and Zacchaeus are Proof We...
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Presbyterian Seminary President Rips in ‘Parable of the Wedding Banquet,’ calls it ‘Disturbing’ and ‘Inflammatory’
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Protestia ^
| January 11, 2024 | staff
Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo, Jr is the President of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA, one of the 12 seminaries belonging to the heretical Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Previously serving as the Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Community Engagement at Princeton Theological Seminary (PCUSA), Aloyo recently preached a barnburner of a bad
sermon at Saint Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Dunwoody, Ga. Here, Aloyo ripped into the parable of the wedding banquet in Matthew 22, explaining, “If what we hear in today’s gospel is really what the kingdom of heaven is like, friends, then I am not interested.” Describing it as...
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Presbyterian Pastrix Defends Abortion Using this ASTONISHING Bible Twist
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Protestia ^
| October 14, 2023 | staff
Rebecca Todd Peters is a professor, author, and Presbyterian Church (USA) ‘Pastor.’ She has been “active denominationally and ecumenically for over twenty-five years.” She
represents the PCUSA as a member of the Faith and Order Standing Commission of the World Council of Churches. A lover of all things baby-killing, she also serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board of Planned Parenthood and was recently elected Vice President of the Society of Christian Ethics. We last wrote about her in our post PCUSA Pastor Sermon Slams Pro-Lifers+ Rejoices in Her Two Abortions: ‘I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin’ It’s unsurprising...
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Woke Presbyterian Church Uses ‘Pumpkin Spiced Communion’ to Draw in Visitors
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Protestia ^
| September 25, 2023 | staff
As fall arrives in the Christian world, the occasional woke church and cringe congregation will advertise on their signs that they are serving pumpkin spice communion, which invariably ends up being just a gag or a way to get attention, such as the following congregations ove rthe years. Not
so with Beacon Church in Philedelphia. An LGBTQ-affirming, recently chartered church of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Rev. Laura Colee has made it their mission to be relevent, and what better way than dressing up the body of Christ with a little cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves as a way of drawing...
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Presbyterian Pastor Says Killing Babies in Abortions is a “Blessing” and an “Act of Love”
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Life News ^
| July 14, 2023 | Micaiah Bilger
Killing an unborn child because she’s a girl is a “moral good.” Killing
an unborn boy because he has Down syndrome is “an act of love.” Killing an unborn baby just because you forgot to use birth control and don’t want to be a parent yet “is an act of grace,” “a blessing.” That essentially is the message that a Presbyterian pastor has made it her mission to share with Christians across the United States. Of course, the Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters does not mention killing or babies in her sermons promoting abortion on demand. According to Religion News Service,...
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Presbyterian PCUSA lost over 100 churches, 53,000 members in 2022: report
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Christian post ^
| 9 april 2023 | Michael Gryboski
Presbyterian Church (USA) lost more than 100 congregations and over 53,000 members in 2022, reflecting the yearslong trend of decline for the mainline Protestant denomination. The
PCUSA Office of the General Assembly released its annual statistics for 2022 this week, which found that the denomination dropped from having approximately 1.193 million members to approximately 1.140 million members. Additionally, PCUSA saw the number of member congregations decline from 8,813 in 2021 to 8,705, as well as their number of ministers drop from 18,458 in 2021 to 18,173. Its membership is now around 160,000 lower than the approximately 1.302 million reported in...
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This is Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of the pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church. The trans shooter murdered her.
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Not The Bee ^
| Joel Abbott · · Mar 28, 2023
Hallie Scruggs is a name I won't forget. I'll
forget the name of the shooter quickly – just another person consumed by the evil of the human heart, bent on wanton destruction. But not Hallie's name. From the NY Post: Among the six victims shot and killed inside a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday was the young daughter of a local pastor, according to reports. Hallie Scruggs, one of three children slain in the sickening school shooting, was the 9-year-old child of Chad Scruggs, the senior pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church, the church confirmed to CBS News. The...
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A Needful Departure
Greg Johnson and Memorial Presbyterian have left the PCA
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Gospel Reformation Network ^
| November 18, 2022 | Jon Payne
It’s official. Greg Johnson and his congregation have voted to leave the Presbyterian Church in America. It’s a sad departure, especially for a church that has been affiliated with the PCA since 1980. Arguably,
however, it’s not only a sad departure. It’s a needful one. *** In 2018 Memorial PCA hosted Revoice, a conference ministry dedicated to “supporting, encouraging, and empowering gay, lesbian, same-sex-attracted, and other LGBT Christians *** In the spring of 2020, they raised some eyebrows by hosting a queer festival called Transluminate. The Q Collective describes Transluminate as “a short-play festival and celebration of transgender, agender, non-binary,...
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Brave churchgoers hogtied gunman with electrical cords and seized his two weapons after he killed one person and wounded five others when he opened fire inside Orange County Presbyterian church
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Daily Mail UK ^
| May 15, 2022 | James Gordon
The congregants of an Orange County church are being hailed as heroes after they managed to hogtie a gunman who went on a shooting spree on Sunday afternoon in what authorities are describing as an act of 'exceptional heroism and bravery.' One
person was killed and five others were shot at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, about 55 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Six people at the house of worship were struck by gunfire after the shooter, said to be an Asian male in his 60s, opened fire at around 1:25 p.m. That man is now in police...
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Top Presbyterian Church Official Delivers Anti-Semitic Sermon on MLK Day-Another modern-day blood libel
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Frontpagemagazine ^
| Feb 10, 2022 | Joseph Puder
The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA), delivered a hateful and antisemitic sermon on the day one honors the memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The fact that Herbert Nelson II is black helped spare him
criticism from the politically correct liberal media, who would normally castigate such hate-filled false and malicious libel if given by a white person. Nelson’s poisonous words were morally repugnant, factually false, and certainly worthy of collective denouncement. He stated: “The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st-century slavery and...
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Theological Antisemitism at Home in the Presbyterian Church
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Townhall.com ^
| January 30, 2022 | Jonathan Feldstein
In a recent statement published on the annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), not only misrepresented and defamed Dr. King’s legacy, but he did so using some of the most vile antisemitic
tropes singling out the Jewish people and Israel. In his statement, Dr. Nelson wrote of Dr. King’s legacy and overcoming societal inequities in the US and all over the world. Listing a broad range of social problems, Dr. Nelson then seamlessly pivoted into antisemitic lies, mentioning only Israel...
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Presbyterian, Baptist Churches Join New Coalition of Churches to Promote Killing Babies in Abortions
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Life News ^
| August 26, 2021 | Micaiah Bilger
Pro-abortion groups in Texas are trying to raise up activists in an unlikely venue: churches. Support
for the killing of unborn babies in abortions never has been strong, and prominent pro-abortion groups have expressed concerns about apathy among their supporters. Meanwhile, the pro-life movement remains strong and active, with new pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes opening across the country and a record number of pro-life laws passing in the states, student pro-life groups in hundreds of high schools and colleges and sidewalk counselors offering prayers and support outside abortion facilities everywhere. To thwart these life-saving efforts, the Texas Freedom...
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Presbyterian Church in America takes first vote on banning ordination of openly gay men
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Christian Post ^
| 07/08/2021 | Anugrah Kumar
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to change a rule in its governing document that would disqualify all gay men from serving in its ministry. The
resolution to change the rule, “Overture 23,” was passed 1,400-400 at the denomination’s 48th annual convention in St. Louis, Missouri, last week. “Officers in the Presbyterian Church in America must be above reproach in their walk and Christlike in their character. Those who profess an identity (such as, but not limited to, ‘gay Christian,’ ‘same-sex attracted Christian,’ ‘homosexual Christian,’ or like terms) that undermines or contradicts their identity as new creations in Christ,...
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Gay men not qualified for ministry, Presbyterian Church in America votes
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The Washington Times ^
| July 2, 2021 | Mark A. Kellner
The conservative Presbyterian Church in America voted Thursday to disqualify all gay men from serving in its ministry. The
1,400-400 vote to change its governing document came at the denomination’s 48th General Assembly, held this week in St. Louis. The rule change, known as “Overture 23,” will go to local church bodies known as “presbyteries” for a vote before a second round of convention balloting next year that would place the language in the denomination’s “Book of Church Order,” which governs PCA practice....
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Presbyterian Sex ’91 = Woke Porn ’21
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American Conservative ^
| April 22, 2021 | Rod Dreher
Contemporary morality, courtesy of Cosmopolitan magazine: Standing before her were eight white men, largely unmemorable except for what they all had in common: Confederate flag T-shirts and penises jutting stiffly out of their pants. She
was here to have sex with all of them—she knew that; she’d signed the contract. But Ana Foxxx, then 23, was still trying to process the message, what was really being asked of her, when the director, another white man, pulled her into a side room. He showed her images on his computer of other Black women in videos just like this one. He told...
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Presbyterian Church Warnings
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Presbyterian Church USA ^
| 1/17/2021 | Presbyterian Church USA
Siblings in Christ, We live in turbulent times. Every
day we see and hear about violence directed at individuals or groups because of their religious beliefs, political views or social justice initiatives. As we celebrate the life and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and prepare for the inauguration of a new president over the weekend and into next week, we are hearing of possible threats against some “liberal” churches. While we can’t speak to any specific threats against churches in the PC(USA), there are concerns that extremists may target some churches both Sunday, January 17, and Wednesday, January...
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Protesters Attack Presbyterian Worshipers After Mistaking Them For Statues
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Babylon Bee ^
| 06/22/2020
A gang of social justice warriors, roaming the streets in search of more monuments to topple, fell upon a group of Presbyterians holding an outdoor church service on Sunday and attacked them. The
protestors apparently mistook the worshippers for a group of statues. Members of First Elect Reverent Presbyterian Church were holding an outdoor worship service Sunday morning and were standing in an open courtyard next to the church when the activists approached. Just as the motionless figures completed a 23 minute period of silent confession, parishioner Calvin Archibald opened his eyes and saw dozens of picketers charging toward them....
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Please Pray for Tim Keller, Founder of NYC's Redeemer Presbyterian Church: Cancer Diagnosis Announced
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Church Leaders ^
| 06/07/2020 | By Megan Briggs
Tim Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, made a sobering announcement on his Facebook page this morning. Keller,
age 69, recently found out that he has pancreatic cancer.“I feel great and have no symptoms,” Keller wrote. “It was what doctors call an ‘incidental pickup,’ otherwise known as providential intervention.” Tim Keller: Cancer Diagnosis Came Unexpectedly Keller told followers he is headed to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, for additional testing today. He will begin chemotherapy next week in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife, Kathy. The author and...
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Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Baptist Pastors Lead Rally for Abortion
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Life News ^
| May 25, 2020 | Micaiah Bilger
Most leaders in Judaeo-Christian faiths believe scripture teaches that all human lives are valuable and deserving of protection. But
there are some who stray from the teaching and promote abortion. A group of New York state clergy members recently advocated for abortion at the state capital, Christian News Network reports. Together, abortion activists who identify as Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian, Baptist, Unitarian and Jewish urged New York state lawmakers to support abortion and Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in the United States, according to the report. “As pastors, we believe in New Yorkers’ ability to get the health care...
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Presbyterian Church Pastor: I “Proudly” Support Killing Babies in Abortion
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Life News ^
| January 09, 2020 | Micaiah Bilger
Standing in the Kentucky Capitol on Thursday, Presbyterian pastor Rev. Wayne A. Gnatuk proudly declared his support for abortion. Gnatuk,
a retired minister from the Presbyterian Church USA, joined Planned Parenthood abortion activists for a rally to criticize two pro-life bills that could help protect unborn babies in Kentucky, according to WLKY. “As an ordained minister, I am proudly pro-choice. I am also very proud that my denomination as a whole is pro-choice,” Gnatuk said. Along with his ministry work, he also is the chair of the pro-abortion Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Gnatuk slammed new legislation, state House...
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