A Christian’s Review of the Sparkle Creed

The other day I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw an appalling post. This was a video of part of a recent worship service in a Lutheran church in Minnesota. The video showed the pastor reading a creed that was titled “The Sparkle Creed,” written in 2021 by Rev. Rachel Small-Stokes of Immanuel United Church of Christ in Louisville, Kentucky.1 This creed is not satirical but is actually used in churches that believe the message it conveys.  Here follow the words of the Sparkle Creed:  -...