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14 Sep 2016 |
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Nightingale Interview
In July of 2016, Covenanter Matt Nightingale publicly announced that he is gay and that he planned to end his marriage. In the months prior to that announcement, he and his wife, Luanne Tondino Nightingale, found support from Mission Friends 4 Inclusion and worked with Luke Johnson of Fulcrum Media Group, LLC to record this […]
Continue Reading14 Jun 2016 |
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An Open Letter to my LGBTQ Friends in the Covenant Church
by Rev. Paul Corner Dear LGBTQ Covenanters and Your Friends, Family, and Allies, In his letter that that we call 1 Corinthians, the apostle Paul says, “If one member of the body suffers, all suffer together.” There can be little doubt that in this moment, you dear friends are suffering. The brutal attacks on the […]
Continue Reading27 Feb 2016 |
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Transformation
by Eva Sullivan Knoff Transformation… The first time Bea came out to us, she was in high school and I was serving as an associate pastor in a church. We had wondered if she was gay, but somehow we were still surprised to hear it. So I told her, “Why don’t you pray and live […]
Continue Reading22 Mar 2015 |
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Changing our Minds and our Hearts – A Call for Conversation
by Krista Brumberg Stevens (originally published on her own blog here.) I received some criticism for writing in August of 2014 that I might need to leave my denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church, in response to its stance of welcoming, but not fully accepting those who are LGBTQ. Friends, both Covenant and those without any ...
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