Dear Denominational Discerners:

I mentioned in my sermon yesterday that the Reformed Church in America (RCA) is hemorrhaging congregations. The issue at the core of their splintering is the all-too-familiar tree shredder question of same-sex marriage and the ordination of homosexuals. At their General Synod (their national denominational conference) in 2016, the RCA considered an amendment to their Book of Church Order to define marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman. The proposal failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority to change their constitution. Being good reformed Christians, at their subsequent biannual Synod they formed a committee