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4 unusual facts about Biblical Witness Fellowship


Biblical Witness Fellowship

Founded in 1978 as the United Church People for Biblical Witness, the movement reorganized as the Biblical Witness Fellowship at a national convocation in Byfield, Massachusetts in 1984, hosted by the current president of BWF, the Rev. Dr. William Boylan.

In response to the "Equal Marriage Rights for All" resolution of 2005, BWF Executive Director David Runnion-Bareford, a pastor in Candia, New Hampshire, called for the resignation of UCC President John Thomas.

Members of the BWF affirm a statement of Christian faith known as the "Dubuque Declaration" (named for the Iowa city and theological seminary where it was drafted), as well as affirming the historic creeds and statements of the Protestant Reformation.

The BWF points as evidence to the soundness of its position to a study done by the Hartford Seminary Foundation that found approximately 26% of the membership of the UCC share the evangelical convictions expressed by BWF.



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