Pastor Condemns His Church Members As URCNA Passes Anti-White ARP Statement

In 2026, the biggest issues facing the West are those pertaining to its own existence. Mass immigration threatens the very cultures and sovereignty of the Western nations, and such third world masses are being imported both for the purpose of greed and with the intent of diluting the natives. Globalism means that domestic labor must compete with the entire world for their very jobs while AI threatens to upend many fields. Every week, there is an astonishing incident of heinous violence perpetrated by either a black career criminal in America or a third world migrant in Europe. This past week saw the conviction of Karmelo Anthony, and there was a Somali man who attempted to behead a man in Belfast.

Rather than addressing actual threats pervasive across society, the Presbyterian world seeks to double down with widespread adoption of the ARP Statement, which reads as follows:

That the 221st General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church do on this solemn day condemn without distinction any theological or political teaching which posits a superiority of race or ethnic identity born of immutable human characteristics and does on this solemn evening call to repentance any who would promote or associate themselves with such teaching, either by commission or omission.

The problems with the ARP Statement are manyfold and a more detailed analysis has been written on the issues here at EDW. The summary of the issues is as follows: The Westminster Confession does not allow synods to regulate political affairs which the statement does; natural hierarchies are necessary for society which often correlates with race; the condemnation of America’s Founding Fathers; and the statement aligns with worldly standards on white supremacy. The definition of white supremacy is so broad that believing Western culture is superior to non-Western Culture is white supremacy, and is so condemned by this statement.

There is no minimal violation of the statement, but it is self-evident that it will only be employed against whites, as the PCA has demonstrated in adopting it while maintaining their ethnic affinity groups for non-whites.

URCNA Synod

The United Reformed Churches in North America recently met in their synod, where they formally adopted the statement. This is a small, reformed denomination with under 150 churches and a little over 200 ministers. They invited Dr. Alan Strange, who will serve on the OPC committee on Christian Nationalism, to speak freely as an expert on the issue. Strange argued that the while the wording of the statement might have flaws, the OPC swallowed its pride to create a unity with the other presbyterian churches and that this was necessary for the “historical” moment.

There’s a general populism, anti-establishmentarianism, anti-elitism, and anti-intellectualism that is taking aim at our churches…and it’s a lot of people on the right joining into this.

The PCA study committee on Christian Nationalism attributed the rise of Christian Nationalism to a movement of those studying the Reformed Tradition pertaining to politics. This could hardly be described as anti-intellectual. Their report was far more charitable and accurate on the issues than Alan Strange. All four of those “isms” he ascribes to this movement are attributes that have been applied to MAGA (not inaccurately) for years, while anti-intellectualism has always been ascribed against Christians by the world. To their credit, the PCA did a much better job of understanding what they were critiquing, but they could not agree due to their internalized liberal beliefs.

Arguing for the statement was Chris Folkerts from New Covenant URC in Twin Falls, ID, where he threw three families in his congregation under the bus.

We have a church of about 20 families and tomorrow, three of our families are going to a conference in Salt Lake City where Stephen Wolfe will be speaking. They are drinking this stuff like a nursing baby from its mother’s breast. There are CREC churches popping up across our country like wildfire. We have an opportunity to stand with our NAPARC churches. If I can go home and say to these three families that NAPARC churches are adamantly opposed to this, that will carry a lot of weight

The conference in reference is the New Christendom Press Conference hosted by Refuge Church in Ogden, UT. Folkerts was not just condemning a “groyper” or a random individual in the church but three entire families, representing over ten percent of the families in his church, all on the altar of anti-racism.

It further demonstrates what exactly is being condemned by how broadly this pastor is interpreting the statement. Stephen Wolfe is being condemned for writing several books on Christian political theory, which include one co-authored by Zachary Garris of the PCA. The CREC is being condemned despite being somewhat philosemitic with their Antioch Declaration and the reputational beef between Doug Wilson and those in Ogden or in the NXR camp. Is a CREC church popping up really a “there goes the neighborhood” moment? In Idaho, one should be more concerned with reaching Mormons than with the influence of the CREC. His argument for the ARP Statement conflates camps that oppose one another, which really demonstrates the means by which the statement will be employed against whites in the church.

One does not have to be Michael Spangler to be condemned, but merely holding common beliefs on race prior to the 1960s is what is being condemned by this statement. The younger generations do not buy the civil rights ideology that these denominations are trying to enshrine as religious dogma. Even within these smaller Presbyterian denominations, they reject this ideology. This includes seminarians. As Folkerts has professed, it is in his church and doubtless, it is in all the Presbyterian churches. Rather than condemn the problems facing the white Christians who make up the membership of these reformed denominations, they condemn wrong-think on the subject of race to their own obsolescence.

The URCNA is a small denomination, but when those three families learn what their pastor said about them before his synod, hopefully, it becomes even smaller.