(OPINION) According to LifeSite News, 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, had two dads, and saw everyone as a sibling-child of God.

I believe in the rainbow spirit that 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.


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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.

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.”

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.