About a third of the formal requests coming to Synod 2023 touch on decisions made by last year’s synod on the human sexuality report. Four groups have differing hopes for how synod will respond and different plans for communicating about it.
Synod 2023
Synod 2023, the annual general assembly of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, will meet on the campus of Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Mich., June 9-15. The Banner will publish daily coverage. See crcna.org/synod for the online agenda, schedule, and streamed plenary sessions.
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Meeting June 9-16 in the Calvin University Chapel, Synod 2023 will revisit decisions from 2022, receive two reports deferred from 2020, and address numerous questions of confessional alignment.
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News editor Alissa Vernon, editor-in-chief Shiao Chong, reporters Roxanne Van Farowe, Kristen Parker, and Greg Chandler; and photographer Steven Herppich will be in Grand Rapids June 9-15 providing coverage of Synod 2023.
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A task force studying bivocationality—pastors holding two jobs—within the Christian Reformed Church has released its report. It recommends changes to Church Order and greater support for this growing sector of pastors.
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A denominational task force appointed by Synod 2019 to consider whether Christians may marry “in the eyes of the church but not in the eyes of the state” recommends against it.
