A Lutheran church in Minnesota read a “Glorious Creed” about a “non-binary God” and Jesus’ “two fathers” during Sunday services, according to a YouTube livestream recording.
Pastor Anna Helgen of the Edina Community Lutheran Church asked the congregation to stand “in body or spirit” to “profess faith” in the Shining Creed. according to to recording.the church went further chant It is an expression of faith in a “nonbinary God” and a “two-fathered” Jesus Christ. (Related: Church welcomes Pride Month with drag queen story hours, queer proms, gay concerts and more)
“I believe in a non-binary God whose pronouns are plural. I believe in their child, Jesus Christ. I saw him as the son of his brother,” the church said. “I believe in a rainbow genie who shatters our image of a single white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity. Believe in the church of resilient everyday saints whose feet are grounded in the mud and whose eyes are staring in wonder at the stars I am love is love and love is love I believe in the call to each one of you, so love, love, I believe, glorious God, help me in my unbelief, Amen.”
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Recordings say Helgen then prayed to a god of “broad and all-encompassing love” for declining bee populations and “climate justice.” The church also feels marginalized due to the upcoming Pride Festival, “all LGBTQIA+ leaders” and “gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin and other human distinctions.” I prayed for those who were
According to the recording, Helgen gave a quick cry during a prayer to Taylor Swift and prayed that God would help them “get over” when life got tough.
of the church website stressed its efforts to combat racism and LGBTQ discrimination and confessed to “stealing land” by being located on Native American land.
“We acknowledge that the Edina Community Lutheran Church is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary land in Dahota Oyate*, Dakota,” the church website states. “Recognizing this tragic history, we, as a congregation, confess our complicity in the theft of Indigenous land and admit that we have not yet honored the treaty. I confess that I have benefited from the theft, and we are committed to vigorously defending Indigenous justice and telling the truth that will lead to healing.”
Helgen did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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