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CONSPIRACY UPDATE: "Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear and do not dread it." > Isaiah 8:12 The conspiracy kooks in the UCC who have attacked those of us who work for reformation and renewal as puppets of a mysterious far right scheme frequently include an accusation that BWF and other renewal groups are connected or funded by a far right billionaire ogre named Richard Mellon Scaife. We must confess that we had never even heard of Richard Mellon Scaife before the conspiracy kook attacks began, and have never received as much as a call or a card, much less a check from Mr. Scaife or his associates. But recently it came to our attention that Mr. Scaife is indeed involved in the machinations of influencing the public square and associating with someone we have all come to know well. Curiously, we aren't sure how this lines up with being "far right," but it's happened nonetheless and we have the proof. (Click Here)
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September 24, 2008 - UCC clergywoman Rebecca Voelkel was promoted in 2005 from interim UCC lgbt coalition coordinator to the Director of the Institute for Welcoming Resources, the religious arm of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the oldest and one of the largest secular homosexual advocacy organizations in the U.S. has absorbed the IWR to coordinate and fund a variety of lgbt activist groups in all of the mainline protestant denominations. In a recent interview on the need for mainline churches to be “certified” in writing as lgbt welcoming such as through the Open & Affirming program in the UCC, Voelkel said that without certification a church’s “welcome” was empty, comparing it to “a claim of being open to people with disabilities – meaningless without ramps or elevators for wheelchairs.” Voelkel estimates there are 3100 mainline churches which have been “certified” as lgbt welcoming in the U.S. http://www.twincities.com/ci_10525210
UCC
Renewal Leader Apologizes to Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston UCC, TRINITY CHURCH, FORCE OBAMA OUT
Barack
Obama resigned this week from Trinity Church and the United
Church of Christ after 20 years of faithful membership because
what he called "divisive backward looking rhetoric." In June
2007, Obama elevated his campaign for the presidency with a
speech to the General Synod of the United Church of Christ in
which he gave his personal testimony about coming to faith in
Jesus Christ. The relationship, however, has deteriorated over
the past year.
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CONFESSING MOVEMENT CALLS UCC
TO SUSPEND DIALOGUE ON RACE
UCC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RESOLUTION PRONOUNCES BOLD NEW DIRECTION
FOR UCC
After decades of pursuing agendas that have been politically driven and heavily defined by special interest groups, the controversy over Jeremiah Wright and Trinity Church has provoked the UCC Executive Committee into a bold new resolution that affirms the witness of faithful local congregations! We particularly applaud the affirmation of paragraph two and pray that the Executive Committee will follow up with overtures of repentance and apology to the many African American congregations who have left our denomination because their prophetic voice was rebuffed and ill treated by denominational bodies and officials. (link to the "Memorandum." God is still speaking! 1. We stand in solidarity with and support of the local congregations of the United Church of Christ as they live out their charge to be prophetic witnesses to church, community and society; and 2. We affirm the long-standing Protestant and African American practice of pastors exercising their prophetic roles in the pulpit, in their communities and on the street; and 3. We resist having the mission of the United Church of Christ defined by political agenda(s);
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