Religion News Service reporter Kathryn Post's report, published 7 January 2022, on forty-three congregations formally departing the Reformed Church in America on New Year's Day 2022 to join the Alliance of Reformed Churches, a conservative Reformed body organized in 2021, naming the dispute over the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and the blessing of same-sex marriages as the unresolved division behind the departure.
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AuthorKathryn Post
PublisherReligion News Service
Publication Year2022
URLhttps://religionnews.com/2022/01/07/former-rca-churches-form-new-conservative-denomination/
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An independently operated nonprofit wire service's contemporary report on the departure, tier 2, used here as an independent cross check on the exact date, the congregation count and the reasoning both sides gave. NotesUsed for the exact departure date, the forty-three congregation count, and the quoted reasoning from Alliance and Reformed Church in America leaders.
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