Several churches have made the decision to leave one of the oldest Christian denominations in the United States after the delegation voted to hit members who support LGBTQ+ worshipers with a “limited ...
(RNS) — At its 2024 synod in June, the Christian Reformed Church instructed LGBTQ-affirming congregations to repent and comply with the denomination’s beliefs on sexuality. Some are now choosing to ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Christian Reformed churches that are LGBTQ-affirming must repent or leave, the denomination has decided. Delegates and church leaders met throughout the week at Calvin ...
PARIS (RNS) Five hundred years after the Reformation, one of Protestantism’s leading branches has officially said it now agrees with the Vatican on the main issue at the root of its split from the ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — At least eight Grand Rapids-area churches plan to leave the Christian Reformed Church, a process called disaffiliation, due to the denomination's recent decisions on sexuality.
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 ...
Leaders of Catholic and Reformed churches have signed an agreement to recognize each other’s sacraments of baptism—a public step toward unity among groups that are often divided by doctrine. “Baptism ...
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 ...
The church's former pastor, the Rev. Will Henkel stands at the head of the church with its graceful arched-wood ceiling seen in the background just before the disbanding service on Sunday, Sept. 19, ...