EDINA, Minnesota (LifeSiteNews) — A Lutheran female “minister” has gone viral for reciting a heretical “Sparkle Creed” as part of a recent church service.
The Edina Community Lutheran Church (ECLC) “minister,” Anna Helgen, led the congregation in the “creed”:
I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural. I believe in Jesus Christ, their child who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling-child of God.
I believe in the rainbow spirit who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity. I believe in the church of everyday saints as numerous, creative, and resilient as patches on the AIDS quilt, whose feet are grounded in mud and whose eyes gaze at the stars in wonder. I believe in the calling to each of us that love is love is love is love, so beloved let us love. I believe glorious God help my unbelief.
The “minister” then prayed for “honeybee populations,” “climate justice advocacy efforts,” and successful LGBT “pride” events at the June 25 church service.
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About 10 minutes later, another “pastor” named Jeff Sartain then offered another prayer about how Jesus Christ lives “among us,” in the “lives of black trans women” and “babies born into the joyful care of lesbian women.”
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— Matt Lamb (@MattLamb22) June 29, 2023
Sartain, donning a rainbow-colored stole, said Christ “wanders school halls as trans children and navigate the streets as queer couples walking hand in hand.”
“You come to us as [LGBTQIA+] youth with no home. You are embodied by Two-Spirit people still fighting against the impacts of colonization, erasure and stolen land,” Sartain continued.
The clip, first posted by a Twitter account called “Woke Preacher clips,” drew numerous critical responses.
“This makes me think some progressive pastors not only don’t know theology but they don’t know basics of the Bible like we were taught as children,” one person commented.
“It’s the work of the devil. Plain and simple,” another person commented.
The ECLC is a liberal church that promotes liberalism above Christianity.
It calls itself “a progressive Lutheran congregation that has been striving for over 70 years to live out Jesus’ radical message of love and to make a difference in our world. We welcome all people without exception, and reach out to our community with serving hands and voices raised for justice,” according to its website.
The church was featured in the local Star Tribune in September 2022 for its support for abortion.
It is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA) in America whose “bishop” is participating in the Synod Assembly with the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The female “bishop” that leads ELCA participated in a Eucharistic procession last year alongside Archbishop Bernard Hebda, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.
