I would have hoped that under the umbrella of “CRC Communications”, something might be said that laments, not only the suffering of the Venezuelan people under the Chavista regimes but also the illegality and outright brutality of the present USA administration’s activity, both globally, by its invasion of a foreign country, and domestically, by its apparent attacks on its own people. After all, the CRC is a USA based denomination and might consider a call-to-account of its own government. It appears that all the countervailing institutions, including Congress, and even much of Christendom are complicit in, rather than prophetic against the obvious dangers posed by these policies. Maybe this is a particularly Canadian perspective as we as a nation suffer the precarity of this administration’s covetous gaze.
I was going to leave this discourse alone until I saw Rev. Dekker’s apology. He made some very important points, and, I fear the apology might fog his astute observations.
As a lifelong member, (now “member in protest”), who has now been placed under discipline by the dictate of Synod 2024, how can my disagreement anymore be “considered normal” as stated in the last paragraph of your hopeful article? Rather, it would appear to me that my disagreement is considered an apostacy, and is being shunned, silenced and expunged.
Posted in: A Pastoral Statement on Venezuela, Justice, and Truth
I would have hoped that under the umbrella of “CRC Communications”, something might be said that laments, not only the suffering of the Venezuelan people under the Chavista regimes but also the illegality and outright brutality of the present USA administration’s activity, both globally, by its invasion of a foreign country, and domestically, by its apparent attacks on its own people. After all, the CRC is a USA based denomination and might consider a call-to-account of its own government. It appears that all the countervailing institutions, including Congress, and even much of Christendom are complicit in, rather than prophetic against the obvious dangers posed by these policies. Maybe this is a particularly Canadian perspective as we as a nation suffer the precarity of this administration’s covetous gaze.
I was going to leave this discourse alone until I saw Rev. Dekker’s apology. He made some very important points, and, I fear the apology might fog his astute observations.
Posted in: Synod and the Triangulation Trap
As a lifelong member, (now “member in protest”), who has now been placed under discipline by the dictate of Synod 2024, how can my disagreement anymore be “considered normal” as stated in the last paragraph of your hopeful article? Rather, it would appear to me that my disagreement is considered an apostacy, and is being shunned, silenced and expunged.