At their November 2003 conference, the Covenant Network distributed a paper titled “Interpreting Book of Order G-6.0106b.” The paper offers candidates for office as well as sessions and presbyteries sly ways to circumvent our denomination’s constitutional standards for ordination. Leaders from several of the denomination renewal organizations have prepared a series of responses to the Covenant Network paper, which can be read in its entirety by clicking here.

Read the Responses:


Part I: Introduction by James D. Berkley

Part II: Determining Fitness for Office by James D. Berkley

Part III: Self Acknowledged by Gordon E. Fish

Part IV: Chastity by Peggy Hedden

Part V: Refusing to Repent by James D. Berkley

Part VI: Practice Which the Confessions Call Sin by Gordon E. Fish

Part VII: Same Sex Relationships by Robert Davis

Part VIII: Other Constitutional Provisions by Paul Leggett

Part IX: Authoritative Interpretations by James R. Tony

Part X: Summary and Conclusion by Gordon E. Fish