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Neland Avenue wasn’t kicked out. Now the church has to decide if it wants to stay.
By Yonat Shimron — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — The Christian Reformed Church didn't show any sign it would relent from its new doctrinal stand that homosexual sex is a sin. That puts the Neland Avenue Church in a tight spot.
Calvin University board votes to keep faculty who disagree with stand on sex
By Yonat Shimron — November 2, 2022
(RNS) — Many professors at the 146-year-old school no longer hold that sex outside of heterosexual marriage is sinful. The university gave them permission to dissent on that issue.
Grand Rapids church won’t remove gay deacon, votes to appeal denomination’s order
By Yonat Shimron — June 29, 2022
(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.
A church was ordered to rescind its gay deacon. Now it weighs its next step.
By Yonat Shimron — June 22, 2022
(RNS) — Neland Avenue is not the only congregation in the Christian Reformed Church to welcome LGBTQ members. But now it’s being singled out.
Christian Reformed Church codifies homosexual sex as sin in its declaration of faith
By Yonat Shimron — June 15, 2022
(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.
Penance and plague: How the Black Death changed one of Christianity’s most important rituals
By Nicole Archambeau — April 11, 2022
(The Conversation) — Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.
An American Lent: It’s time for evangelicalism to embrace the act of confession
By Skye Jethani — February 10, 2021
(RNS) — Without disciplines like corporate confession and Lent, there is little within popular evangelicalism to restrain the triumphalism of white American culture from overshadowing the cross of Christ.
Sex scandals show why evangelicals need to recover the sacrament of confession
By Joseph D'Souza — November 14, 2019
(RNS) — Imagine a church where everyone, including the senior pastor, was required to have a person they confessed to. For one, it would help avoid some of the major crises in the failures of leadership.
Growing the religious left by confessing our sins against nature to plants
By Tara Isabella Burton — September 23, 2019
(RNS) — For these progressive Christians, the language of social justice is a way of translating the gospel message of a kingdom of heaven on earth into a contemporary world.
Taking stock of the clergy sexual abuse crisis: Transparency
By Thomas Reese — April 3, 2019
(RNS) — It's unlikely that Catholic bishops will ever regain credibility until they have adopted full disclosure, made amends and done penance for their and their predecessors’ failures.
Why making clergy mandatory reporters won’t solve the Catholic abuse crisis
By Thomas Reese — January 14, 2019
(RNS) — Even covering confession under mandatory reporting rules would have little effect, since few abusers would confess such a sin if they thought their confidences were not secure.
Abandoning celibacy won’t stop sexual abuse by priests
By Thomas Reese — December 19, 2017
(RNS) — We know for a fact that noncelibate men, including married men, also abuse children.
Time for white churches to speak out about police shootings
By guest — July 8, 2016
MEMPHIS — Let the confession and repentance begin this Sunday.
Catholic ‘seal of the confessional’ upheld as religious liberty issue
By Kimberly Winston — March 1, 2016
(RNS) To compel a priest to report crimes -- even child sexual abuse -- that he learns in the confessional is a violation of religious freedom, ruled a Louisiana court.
Pope Francis asks priests to forgive the sin of abortion
By Rosie Scammell — September 1, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A person who has confessed “with a sincere heart” and is repentant cannot be denied forgiveness, the pope said.
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