Re: Profiles
| From: | Paul Burgess <paul@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 1:52 |
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4/14/03 6:23:08 PM, Eamon Graham <robertg@...>
wrote:
>Danny Wier wrote:
>>
>> From: "Paul Burgess" <paul@...>
>>
>> > Profession: Pastor, Mt. Hope Presbyterian
Church &
>> > St. John's United Church of
Christ,
>> > rural New Albin
>>
>> You're pastor of TWO churches in two different
denominations? Talk about
>> ecumenism...
>
>This is just a guess, but are the Presbyterian Church
and UCC in
>intercommunion with Pastor sharing?
Yes, as a matter of fact they are, these days. However,
these two congregations have been yoked for 50 years.
Back in those days, St. John's was part of the old
Evangelical & Reformed Church (E&R), which later became
part of the UCC. And before that, St. John's belonged to
the German Evangelical Synod of North America, the
denomination in which Reinhold Niebuhr grew up.
I myself am a Presbyterian, with both Presbyterian and
Lutheran strands in my family background, so altogether
it works out pretty well. :-)
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