Category Archives: CRC

Break the Script, See the Whole Texas Privet, Find your real Confessional Flag and Fly It!

Posted on June 2, 2016 by PaulVK

Following the Script There really isn’t any great mystery about what’s coming next in the CRC struggle over what to say and do about the liberation of sexual minorities. There should be no mystery because we’ve been watching this play … Continue reading →

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Desmoines Register on RCA SSM Clash

Posted on June 2, 2016 by PaulVK

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2016/05/30/reformed-church-faces-defining-moment-gay-issues/85007688/ With more than a decade of hindsight, we look back with pride on the costly choice we made to become an LGBT-affirming church. We lost some members and congregations, but defining ourselves positively to the LGBT community created new … Continue reading →

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Should the CRC Establish a Center for Confesssional Development to turn the Implicit Confessions tearing the church apart into Proto-Confessions?

Posted on May 30, 2016 by PaulVK

    The Confessional Conversation The CRC, like many Protestant denominations in the West is heading for a fractious fight over human sexuality. I believe this is brought on by deep assumptions in Western culture about the nature of progress … Continue reading →

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Richfield CRC Sells Building for 3.5 million to Islamic Group

Posted on May 27, 2016 by PaulVK

http://www.northjersey.com/news/growing-islamic-center-opening-new-location-in-clifton-1.1605125

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Where I think the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” Report Fails the CRC

Posted on May 26, 2016 by PaulVK

Doctrine of Christian Discover Report In case you haven’t wade through the whole report the CRC Network Synod page offered a small piece saying why we should pay attention to it. If you read the comments on that page also notice … Continue reading →

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Why I Don’t Think Synodical Study Committees Are the Right Tool for Working Through LGBTQ Questions for the CRC

Posted on May 23, 2016 by PaulVK

Recent CRC Study Committee Efforts on Same Sex Marriage and Same Sex Attraction   At Synod 2011 Classis Grand Rapids East overtured Synod to found a new study committee to take another look at the 1973 report on Homosexuality. While … Continue reading →

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What do I Mean when I Say we Need a Confessional Conversation as a Way Forward in our Conflict over Same sex Marriage and other Matters

Posted on May 21, 2016 by PaulVK

Confessions as a way of making explicit cultural faith expressions What was Apartheid? I first learned about Apartheid when I was a boy. A South African pastor was a guest in our home. He was in the states to talk … Continue reading →

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Why A Confessional Conversation about Same Sex Marriage is the best way forward keeping both Traditionalists and Liberationists from Using Power to Oppress the Other

Posted on May 16, 2016 by PaulVK

Why Church Fights over LGBTQ Issues and Same Sex Marriage Gets So Nasty So Fast I wrote before why we need to have a confessional conversation rather than a fight over church polity. Part of the difficulty we are having, … Continue reading →

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Madison Square Multi-Site

Posted on May 9, 2016 by PaulVK

 

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I Hope the CRC can Resist Flourishing-Moral-Order Arguments in its upcoming SSM Debate

Posted on April 25, 2016 by PaulVK

The Evangelical Middle One of the too many books I’m playing around with is Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme. It written by David Kinnaman of the Barna Group and Gabe Lyons of Q Ideas. … Continue reading →

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