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(RNS) — Over the years, the small Calvinist denomination has given its churches a degree of latitude in ministering to LGBTQ people. That may now change. (RNS) — The Christian Reformed Church, a small ...
(RNS) — Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church was ordered by the denomination to reverse its decision to ordain a deacon in a same-sex marriage. It has refused. (RNS) — A Grand Rapids, Michigan, ...
(RNS) — At least two dozen churches in the Christian Reformed Church of North America are in the process of severing their ...
HUDSONVILLE, Mich. — A decades-old dispute is coming to a head in the Reformed Church in America. Impasses over certain ideologies and interpretations of the Bible are causing congregations to leave ...
The World Alliance of Reformed Churches has agreed to unite with the Reformed Ecumenical Council to create a new “global entity” that will form a constituency of 80 million Reformed Christians. “This ...
On New Year’s Day, 43 congregations of the Reformed Church in America split from the national denomination, one of the oldest Protestant bodies in the United States, in part over theological ...
After Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, Norman Kansfield's daughter asked him to perform her wedding ceremony. Kansfield, a respected pastor, scholar and lifelong member of the ...
PARIS (RNS) Amid ceremonies this year marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, one of Protestantism’s leading branches has officially said it now agrees with the Vatican on the main issue at ...
A pair of local churches have left the Reformed Church in America denomination. Hope Church in Grand Haven Township and First Reformed Church in the city of Grand Haven both recently left the ...
When the Bloomington Reformed Presbyterian Church was founded, Indiana was 5 years old, Abraham Lincoln wasn’t a teenager yet, and one year had passed since the state confirmed Bloomington as the site ...