Posted on 04/01/2023 8:45:25 PM PDT by Morgana
Nashville is a city infused by religion, music and history, so when a tragedy like the school shooting at The Covenant School March 25 happens there, connections ripple across well-known names and places.
And in this case, also across some unknown history that makes things complicated to comprehend.
The Covenant School is affiliated with Covenant Presbyterian Church, a Presbyterian Church in America congregation situated in the tony south side of Nashville — just down the road from Bluebird Café, one of the city’s best-known live-music venues.
The Covenant School is a small, private Christian school, enrolling about 200 students in preschool through sixth grade. Tuition is about $16,000 a year — more expensive than a year of college at the University of Tennessee. The school was founded in 2001.
Covenant Church and its denomination represent the more conservative side of Presbyterian life in America today. The PCA was formed in the 1970s as a breakaway group from the better-known Presbyterian Church (USA), mainly over the ordination of women, which the PCA opposes.
Nashville — to the chagrin of some city leaders — is the namesake of a document important to some conservative evangelicals who embrace a theology known as complementarianism. This theology teaches that God created males and females for distinct roles in church and home, including allowing only men to be pastors. These beliefs are embodied in The Nashville Statement, orchestrated by a group called the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, which has strong ties to Southern Baptist Convention leadership but also adopted by the PCA.
The Nashville statement and PCA doctrine also are against LGBTQ identity and practice. In 2020, the PCA adopted a report on gender and sexuality that speaks of “the sinfulness of homosexual and transgender desire as well as conduct.”
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Let’s investigate the victims?
Ping
Interesting. Thank you.
What are you talking about? No one is “investigating the victims.”
The whole article is insinuating some connection between the theology and philosphy of the church/school, some nebulous incident of abuse from the early 2000s and the former reluctant student/ transgender murderer.
Nashville is run by democrats... end of story.
So that justifies killing them?
Covenant Church and its denomination represent the more conservative side of Presbyterian life in America today. The PCA was formed in the 1970s as a breakaway group from the better-known Presbyterian Church (USA), mainly over the ordination of women, which the PCA opposes.
Not exactly true. The PCA split from the PCUS, the old southern presbyterian church, before the merger produced the current PCUSA.
And I am sure those 3 little children and 3 Christian adult’s death will make the transgender community much more acceptable, tolerated and admired./s I guess that these people do not think beyond their own desires and sex to see the world around them. They can only see their own inner identity that doesn’t allow for others to disagree.
They would.🙄
Not what I was looking for, though. The murderer/MSM might have used the conservative theology as an excuse, but I/we were looking for abuses that were swept under the rug by the church/denomination when the murderer was attending school there.
A conservative, Bible-believing church should NOT be targeted because they believe in right or wrong, but sometimes wolves sneak in.
Not always nebulous. I know too many stories
“Not exactly true. The PCA split from the PCUS, the old southern presbyterian church, before the merger produced the current PCUSA. “
I’m not presbyterian so I don’t understan all of this. Please fill me in on the difference again.
“A conservative, Bible-believing church should NOT be targeted because they believe in right or wrong, but sometimes wolves sneak in.”
I’ll buy that answer.
I still have don’t care about the shooter but you know this will be brought to light so I’m posting these stories before PMSNBC does.
We I believe we should all agree that nebulous stories should not stay nebulous, they should become concrete or else they should evaporate.
I clicked the link to the blog with Burleson’s story and a lot of things didn’t add up, like why didn’t Davis go to the police? Why did he hang around an allegedly apostate church for so long?
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